After a long drought for local development, growth in town has blossomed, with more than a half dozen projects underway and more planned for the future.

Several of those projects are located along the Church Hill Road corridor.

At 12 Church Hill Road, the Newtown Hook & Ladder Volunteer Fire Company is building a new 16,000-square-foot firehouse, which it will own, to replace the deteriorated town-owned firehouse that it occupies at 45 Main Street.

Just to the east, construction on The Village at Lexington Gardens is underway at 30-32 Church Hill Road. The project will include 60,500 square feet of new commercial space at 32 Church Hill Road, and 16,000 square feet of renovated commercial space at the adjacent 30 Church Hill Road.

Construction is nearing completion at Wheels, a planned gas station/convenience store at 67 Church Hill Road. The 3,400-square-foot building will contain a food service area.

Starting in 2016, the state plans to reroute the southern end of Edmond Road, shifting it from the eastern side to the western side of the Wheels site in order to create a signalized four-way intersection of Church Hill Road, Edmond Road, and Commerce Road. The roadway changes are intended to improve travel safety in that area of town, which has the highest local accident rate.

Also, at 99 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook Center, a worker on July 21 operated a backhoe/loader doing site work for the next phase of Edona Commons, a condominium complex which has an affordable housing component.

Following a long court battle which the town lost, the town in June 2011 approved the 26-unit construction project, which is partially built.

In the Hawleyville section, workers this week used powerful equipment to take down many trees at 168-170 Mt Pleasant Road, where a 30,000-square-foot medical office complex is planned. The project will be similar in appearance to another medical office building that was recently constructed at 164 Mt Pleasant Road.

At 146 South Main Street, extensive site development work is underway for The Summit At Newtown, a planned 18,750-square-foot mixed-use building that will hold commercial space on the lower level and rental apartments on the upper level.

In the town center, adjacent to the Main Street flagpole, workers have been busy renovating a commercial building at 33 Main Street. The improved building is planned to house modern office space, as well as a new restaurant to be known as Dere Street.

George Benson, town director of planning, said the various projects now underway had been in the planning stages and under the land use review process for a long time.

“Everything is coming together all at once,” he said.