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Darien's 50 Highest Business Property Taxpayers

Here are the 50 businesses in town with the highest assessments on "personal property"—a misnomer for equipment, furnishings and other non-real estate property owned by businesses (not individuals) and taxed by municipalities.

 

The biggest taxpayer in Darien isn't an owner of a Maserati, and it isn't a country club—it's the electric utility, Connecticut Light & Power, which pays taxes on $86.4 million in assessed property.

That's more than all the other taxable business equipment, furniture and fixtures in the rest of town, combined. The total assessed value of that kind of property, incongruously callled "personal property" by Connecticut's taxing bureaucracy: $160,292,606.

The other $73.8 million in taxed personal property in Darien is mostly owned by the next 49 top-ranked businesses in town. No. 2 on the list is also a utility—Aquarion Water Co., assessed at $7.8 million—as is Yankee Gas, a provider of natural gas and ranked No. 4 at $3.7 million.

Stop & Shop is listed twice on the list—once for each of its two supermarkets in town. The Noroton Heights supermarket, with $1.6 million in taxable, non-real estate property, is assessed at almost twice the size of the larger Stop & Shop in the Goodwives Shopping Center ($872,580).

The list has names familiar and less familiar to town residents: Darien's country clubs are on it, although not the Country Club of Darien. Whole Foods Market, with an assessment of $3.1 million and only in town for a few years, is the largest payer of business property taxes among retailers. Zotos International, the third-largest payer of personal property taxes ($5.8 million) is located in an office building on Tokeneke Road, just south of Interstate 95.

Several restaurants are also on the list: Ten Twenty Post (No. 18) and chain restaurants Bertucci's (No. 31), Panera (No. 41) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (No. 50).

The list of highest personal property tax assessments is published by the Darien Assessor's Office (see attached PDFs).

Rank Business Address 70% Assessment
1 Connecticut Light & Power "Various locations" $86,421,310
2 Aquarion Water Co. of Connecticut "Various locations" $7,861,950
3 Zotos International 100 Tokeneke Rd. $5,885,000
4 Woodway Country Club 540 Hoyt St. $3,163,120
5 Yankee Gas Service Company "Various locatios" $3,654,070
6 Whole Foods Market 150 Ledge Rd. $3,117,510
7 Country Club of Darien 300 Mansfield Ave. $2,156,810
8 Stop & Shop (see No. 12, below)
 148 Heights Rd. $1,600,070
9 Wee Burn Country Club 410 Hollow Tree Ridge Rd. $1,485,570
10 Fairfield County Bank 714 Boston Post Rd. $1,479,460
11 Portfolio Advisors 9 Old Kings Hwy. S. $1,279,690
12 Stop & Shop (see No. 8, above) 25 Old Kings Hwy. N. $872,580
13 Arrowhawk Capital Partners 1120 Boston Post Rd. $825,400
14 The Tokeneke Club 4 Butlers Island Rd. $778,430
15 Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith 1020 Boston Post Rd. $753,310
16 Brooks Brothers Group Inc. 987 Boston Post Rd. $645,130
17 Palmer Supermarket #2 Inc. 264 Heights Rd. $587,220
18 Ten Twenty Post Restaurant 1020 Boston Post Rd. $528,080
19 SBD Kitchens LLC 1474 Boston Post Rd. $513,160
20 J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA 165 Noroton Ave. $487,078
21 Rings End Inc. 181 West Ave. $484,000
22 CIT Technology Financing Service "Various" $474,110
23 Omnicom Group Inc. 120 Tokeneke Rd. $458,150
24 GE Capital Information Technology Solutions "Various locations" $449,680
25 Felix F. Callari Inc. (BMW of Darien)
 138 Ledge Rd. $445,070
26 Aesthetic Surgery Center LLC 722 Boston Post Rd. $416,680
27 Hudson City Savings Bank 547 Boston Post Rd. $405,000
28 Williams and Company 1020 Boston Post Rd. $372,410
29 Applied Psychological Techniques 1 Thorndal Cir. $363,490
30 Equinox Darien Inc. 72 Heights Rd. $342,830
31 Bertucci's Restaurant Corp. 54 Boston Post Rd. $335,070
32 JB Darien LLC 24-5 Old Kings Hwy. N. $334,000
33 David Harvey Fine Jewelers LLC 995 Boston Post Rd. $326,980
34 Deere Credit Inc. 538 Hollow Tree Ridge Rd. $324,220
35 Darien Sport Shop Inc. 1127 Boston Post Rd. $323,360
36 Fiona LLC 416 Boston Post Rd. $320,250
37 CRA Rogers Casey Inc. 1 Parkland Dr. $309,950
38 The Ox Ridge Hunt Club Middlesex Road $300,000
39 Guggenheim Premises I LLC 28 Thorndal Cir. $299,900
40

Miller Automobile Corp. (Nissan Darien)

 1335 Boston Post Rd. $296,940
41 Panera LLC 1063 Boston Post Rd. $290,740
42 HP Financial Services "Various locations" $290,670
43 G. R. Mishell Company LLC I-95 North rest stop $278,290
44 Fairfield County Surgical Specialists 1500 Boston Post Rd. $277,460
45 Agricredit Acceptance Inc. "Various locations" $276,500
46 Red Door Salons Inc. 1077 Boston Post Rd. $271,780
47 Geese LLC 972 Boston Post Rd. $266,700
48 Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. 85 Old Kings Hwy. N. $250,000
49 Darien Ice Rink 53 Old Kings Hwy. N. $249,030
50 Chipotle Mexican Grill 71 Boston Post Rd. $241,905

See also:

Concourse de Tax Rolls: Darien's 50 Priciest Rides

Top Lots: 50 Most Expensive Properties in Darien

Editor's note: This article originally was published Thursday. The time stamp has been changed for layout purposes on the Home page of Darien Patch.

Related Topics: Darien Tax Base

Siwanoy

3:39 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012

We should take the money CLP is paying and use it to make sure we're better prepared for storms.. oh wait, that makes too much sense for to actually happen.

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