For a stretch of two-plus years, the two anchors of daily life in Glenville were both dark. The restaurant terrace above the Byram River waterfall sat empty. The supermarket at the top of Glenville Street sat empty. If you live here, you noticed. You drove to Port Chester for a proper dinner and to Byram or Port Chester again for a full grocery run, and you told yourself the village would come back.
This summer it did. Both anchors are lit again within the same six-week window, and the smaller businesses that filled in around them while everyone waited are still here. The result is a Glenville that reads, for the first time in a while, like a complete village on a Tuesday night. Here is where to spend that Tuesday.
The waterfall block, occupied again
The room beside the Glenville waterfall has a specific weight in local memory. It was Centro for years, then The Lion, opened by Polpo owner Ron Rosa in the former Centro space at The Mill, then dark again. As of this July it is Greenwich Grill.
Greenwich Grill, an upscale-casual American restaurant offering elevated classics, opened in Glenville at The Mill Waterfall on July 15, 2026, located at 328 Pemberwick Road beside the waterfall in the former Centro and Lion Brasserie space. The property itself deserves a beat of attention if you have never looked closely. The Mill at 10 Glenville Street is a mixed-use property along the Byram River, with apartments and retail across five buildings including a former mill building from 1881 and a converted office building from 1981. You are eating dinner inside a nineteenth-century industrial complex that still uses the river it was built for.
The menu reads familiar in the best way. There is a Greenwich chopped salad and a Caesar, a lemon ricotta cheesecake and a Key lime pie, and a full bar. If you are the household member who is going to be sent for the drink recommendations, the three signature pours are the London Mist made with house-infused Earl Grey Empress gin, lavender, violet and lemon; the Tropical Heat Wave with habanero-infused tequila, passion fruit and a Tajín rim; and the GG Espresso Martini with house-infused vanilla bean vodka and espresso caffe liqueur. The room also has a separate lounge, The G-Bar, positioned for unwinding after work, date nights, or catching the game.
Two practical notes for planning. The kitchen is dinner-only, running Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. And the terrace, the reason to book at all in August, is above the waterfall. Ask for it.
The plaza, re-anchored
The other empty anchor was 21 Glenville Street. The Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously approved a final site plan and special permit to renovate the existing supermarket building at 21 Glenville St., which used to house a Stop & Shop that closed in June 2023.
The new tenant is a name Westchester shoppers know well. Family-owned DeCicco & Sons is opening its first Connecticut location in Greenwich, occupying a 20,000-square-foot space at 11 Glen Ridge Road and marking the company's 12th store overall. The renovation is not cosmetic. Plans include a 7,777 square foot addition with an enclosed dumpster and loading dock, storage, refrigeration storage, new front and rear entrance vestibule and the DeCicco signature tower.
If your only frame of reference is the previous Stop & Shop, adjust expectations. DeCicco's brings an acclaimed beer selection, a famous Italian bakery, fresh produce, and highly rated prepared foods, plus a dedicated event planner to assist with everything from casual order pickups to fully staffed events. The store also runs a school rebate program to benefit local Greenwich schools, which matters if your kids are at Glenville School two blocks away.
The Planning & Zoning chair framed the approval in terms residents will recognize. "We do know Glenville very much wants to have a supermarket. We want to be supportive of what does contribute to the village here," said commission chair Margarita Alban.
While the anchor was in permitting, three smaller neighbors filled in around the plaza:
- Luca's Pizzeria and Italian Kitchen
- Sweet Notes, the ice cream shop
- Green & Tonic, which opened at Glenville Plaza alongside Luca's and Sweet Notes as the new tenants moving into the shopping center in recent months
That gives the plaza a coffee-and-juice stop, a weeknight pizza, a dessert walk after dinner, and now a proper grocery. A resident's Saturday morning fits inside one parking lot.
A trail loop most residents haven't walked all of
Ask a Glenville homeowner what they do with Pemberwick Park and half the answers stop at the playground. The park is bigger than that. Pemberwick Park stretches across the neighborhood's core, offering a playground, athletic facilities and a hilly hiking trail. The town's own listing places it at the corner of Pemberwick Road and Moshier Street, with a playground, athletic field, tennis and basketball courts, and the William A. Yantorno Community Center on site with a community room, kitchen and rental facilities.
The trail system is the underused piece. Three different trails, marked yellow, blue and white, loop the entire park, with good birding, a stream, and an old farm. The signature route is short and useful. Pemberwick Park Trail is considered an easy hike covering 1.1 miles with an elevation gain of 75 feet, and takes about half an hour to an hour to complete. That is a coffee-and-a-walk before school pickup, not an expedition. The mile-long looped path is surrounded by shallow streams and rock formations through the forested section.
If you have lived here five years and only used the playground, the marked loops are the reason to come back on a Sunday morning in September when the leaves start.
The Civic Center is more building than most residents realize
The Colonial Revival brick building at 449 Pemberwick Road is the other underused asset in walking distance. Most locals know it as the place where their kids play basketball. It is also the reason the block has scale. Spread across 10 acres, the former Glenville School was built in 1921 in a Colonial Revival style, and the elegant brick structure with its Flemish bond trimmings and hipped roofs has been the home of the Bendheim Western Greenwich Civic Center since 1975.
Inside the current programming: the center serves thousands of children, teens, and adults each year through child development services, health and wellness, community services, and youth development, with a gymnastics program, the Just Wee Two classes for ages 8 months through 3.5 years, and The Dance Pointe, which has been cultivating dancers of all ages and levels since 2009 with various performance opportunities locally and abroad. If your household calendar has a two-year-old and a nine-year-old, this building probably covers both of them without a car.
For the older kids in the summer window, the answer is on the same property. Greenwich Adventurers is an action and adventure day camp for ages 8 to 15, running Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. out of the Bendheim Western Greenwich Civic Center.
September, on the calendar
Put one date on the fridge. Since 2008, the Pemberwick Glenville Association has transformed Western Greenwich Civic Center Park into a carnival for the Valley Jam Festival at the end of September. The most recent edition landed on the last day of summer, and the weather could not have been nicer for the 16th Valley Jam.
The Pemberwick Glenville Association also runs the other date worth marking, which is springtime cleanups of the Byram River. Between those two bookends, the association is doing the quiet work that makes the village feel like a village.
The picture, taken together
Read the individual updates apart and they are three unrelated announcements. Read them together and they describe a specific pattern. Every anchor of daily life in western Greenwich, the dinner house on the waterfall, the grocery at the top of the street, the trail loops, the civic building with camps and classes, sits inside a single square mile bounded by Pemberwick Road and Glenville Street. The July restaurant opening and the DeCicco's approval closed the last two gaps in that grid. For the first time since 2023, a resident's ordinary weeknight can happen entirely inside the neighborhood without compromise.
That is a specific kind of address to own, and it is worth paying attention to.
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