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The owner of the furniture store which replaced the now-shuttered Puritan Furniture business on New Britain Avenue in West Hartford wants to replace his building with a sizable mixed-use structure.

Sami Abunasra, president of Ashley Furniture licensee Ashley Homestore Northern CT, filed preliminary plans with town officials last month for a 150-unit apartment building at 1051-1061 New Britain Ave.

Documents presented to the town Design Review Committee show a 5-story, I-shaped structure, with two restaurant and three storefront retail units ranging from 2,600 to 5,300 square feet. Both restaurant spaces would come with ground-level patios, but one stretches over two stories and includes a second-floor roof deck.

The plans show 69 surface parking spaces for the retail space and 12 surface and 128 underground parking spots for residents. The unit mix shown in the plans is: 15 studios, 84 one-bedrooms, 47 two-bedrooms and four three-bedrooms.

Amenities called out in the plan include a suite of work-from-home pods and a conference room, a club room, a fitness center with a yoga studio and a fourth-floor roof deck and garden.

The building site sits next to the Elmwood CTfastrak station and in the middle of one of West Hartford’s 10-month-old transit-oriented zoning districts, aimed at recruiting more medium density multifamily and retail development near the Elmwood and Flatbush CTfastrak stations. The zoning offers density and parking-reduction bonuses for the addition of affordable housing, infill development and other measures.