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Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, already one of the biggest multifamily developers in New Haven, is getting in on yet another apartment project.

According to a filing with the New Haven City Plan Commission, the city’s equivalent to a planning board, Spinnaker has formed a joint venture with developer Epimoni Corp. to move Epimoni’s previously-approved plans for a multifamily building at 20 Fair St. in New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood forward.

Epimoni permitted a 185-unit development on the site in 2021, but despite telling the New Haven Independent that a joint-venture agreement signed with Spinnaker this spring would set the building up for construction, the project has since been redesigned.

The most recent plans filed with city officials show a 168-unit building, but the plans retain a promised pedestrian mid-block, landscaped connector that the filing calls the project’s “signature aspect.” The joint venture is negotiating with city officials over a perpetual easement to allow the public to use the space even as the building’s owner is charged with maintaining it.

The project will still be 6 stories and 160,000 square feet, and will cost $60 million to build.

Other changes to the proposed development include widening the pedestrian promenade, removing some balconies and adding others, adding a dedicated “move-in” parking space, swapping loft units for a tenant amenity rooftop deck and revising how the project’s car garage will work.

Amenities called out in plans filed with New Haven officials include a coworking space, a “great room,” a public cafe