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Historically accurate and exceptionally crafted, The Standard is a new multi-use development with luxury condos and niche retail spaces in downtown Mystic.
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F YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT, it may be for any of several reasons. Historically, Mystic was a thriving seaport and shipbuilding center for more than a century, starting in 1784. To commemorate the small town’s seafaring heritage, Mystic Seaport came into being nearly a century ago
and has become one of the largest maritime museums in the country. The popular 1988 romcom Mystic Pizza, starring Julia Roberts, was based on a local pizzeria still in operation. Meanwhile, owner and executive pastry chef Adam Young of Sift Bake Shop put the small town on the map as winner of Food Network’s Best Baker in America three years ago.
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In fact, it was while they were working on a construction project at Sift that Eric Goodman and Kody Blake started musing about the property next door. “We kept
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looking at the site and saying to each other that so much more could be done with it,” says Goodman, co-owner with Blake of K Blake & Company, their four-year-old construction management and general contracting business.
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