SHELTON, CT — Plans for a new McDonald’s at 6 Todd Road in Shelton, complete with a drive thru and parking, have been submitted to the city.
The plans, submitted last month by the Avon-based Six Todd Road LLC, call for construction of a 3,690-square-foot single restaurant with a two-lane drive thru and 37 parking spaces.
Plans for the land originally called for a 10,170-square-foot retail building to be built, however the applicant indicated in the updated proposal plans now call for just the restaurant to be constructed in the space.
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Alexandrea Castro, assistant administrator for the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission, said in an email the project will most likely be scheduled for discussion at a commission meeting in February.
According to the Connecticut Post, developers hope to build the fast food restaurant on vacant land that has become overgrown in recent years.
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While there are a number of McDonald’s restaurants in the nearby communities of Trumbull, Derby, Monroe, Milford, Orange and West Haven, the fast food chain does not currently operate a location in Shelton.
Requests from comment from McDonald’s and the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce were not returned Thursday.
If approved and built, the new restaurant would add to the state’s growing roster of McDonald’s locations.
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According to a special report by 24/7 Wall St., the globally popular fast food brand operated just over 140 McDonald’s restaurants in Connecticut as of 2021.
Restaurant Business reports the fast food chain opened six new restaurants in the U.S. in 2022 and finished the year with six more than it had at the end of 2021, something the company had not done since 2014.
The company also indicated plans to build more McDonald’s restaurants both in the U.S. and globally in 2023. Though the company peaked at 14,350 locations in the U.S. in 2014, it closed over 900 restaurants between that year and the end of 2021, according to Restaurant Business.
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