- April 18, 2024
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SOUTHWEST ORANGE A slice of Orange County history seeks to begin its next chapter in the community.
PerriHouse Development seeks to change the future land use prepare the way for the future of the PerriHouse Bed and Breakfast.
Project leaders seek to take seven lots and combine them into about a 14-acre plot of land, according to PerriHouse President Dennis Abbate. This will allow the land to become the future home to a new 25-room country inn with a banquet hall, spa and dining room, with plans for multi-family residences in the back.
The PerriHouse Bed and Breakfast Inn, located at 10417 Vista Oaks Court, has been a fixture in the community since 1989, but it is not currently operating because of noisy neighboring construction, which does not create a peaceful environment for guests, according to founder Angi Perretti.
The original house will be torn down and rebuilt, and Perretti is unsure if PerriHouse will accept guests again until the new building is complete.
The new plans will allow the business to stay true to its roots but expand to meet present-day business demands.
“When you read the little bit on our board or on our table about the historical value — we’re not going to be in the history books,” Abbate said at a Dec. 7 community meeting about the project. “We’re not going to get a credit for being a historical property. But I’ll tell you what. We have a lot of history back there. Twenty-six years of history. We’ve done some great things on our property, we very much love the community and we plan to stay. This was the move we had to make to be able to survive.”
As the business hoped to grow, it tried to find the best way to stay in the neighborhood and live alongside the incoming the Zen Luxury Living apartments by Unicorp National Developments.
Trying to come up with a solution, the business talked to neighbors and continued to do research, ultimately deciding the best solution was to expand using the land bordering County Road 535, according to Abbate.
“The truth was, it just made a lot of sense for us to rearrange on the cul-de-sac,” Abbate said.
The project requires the future land-use map to change. Properties around the county all have a plan for what kind of development can come in the property. This property would need to be changed to planned development-commercial/high density residential to allow the proposed projects.
Many community members came out in support of the project, but expressed concern for the growing traffic they see along 535.
Lillian Szaksztylo, who lives in Cypress Chase, a community north of the proposed project, is one resident concerned about the increasing traffic she sees.
“The increase in the traffic — and the building — in the area is just mind-blowing,” she said.
Szaksztylo worries about kids along the heavy traffic area, though she is not opposed to the PerriHouse portion of the project.
Contact Jennifer Nesslar at [email protected].
