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The site of a Webster Bank branch in downtown Shelton could soon become a 5-story mixed-use building following a vote by a city board.

Developer Al DaSilva received approval for the 56-unit building from the Shelton Planning & Zoning Commission recently, the Connecticut Post reported. The unit mix will include 24 studio units, 28 one-bedroom units and four two-bedroom units, and 1.6 parking spaces will be available per unit. The building’s ground floor will contain retail uses, including a bank branch with a drive-through ATM.

City officials expressed hope that the city’s several downtown development sites will attract office projects as well as residential and mixed-use ones in the future.

DaSilva’s building is only the latest residential project in the Naugatuck Valley, with an Avalon apartment complex among those built in recent years, and a 215-unit building proposed across the river in Derby just last month.