After sitting idle for more than a decade, the former mall property in downtown Bristol could become home to a new complex of 90 apartments along with a restaurant and other small businesses, developer Ryan Carrier said.
Carrier Construction Co. is offering to buy nearly 5 acres of vacant land at Bristol Centre Square as the site of the biggest downtown development in decades.
The company is negotiating to pay the city $219,000 for property across North Main Street from city hall and the former courthouse.
Carrier’s plan is to erect market-rate apartments above ground-floor businesses, and he said Friday that it could be completed by the end of 2023 barring unexpected delays.