[CPEO-BIF] Winchester rifle site, New Haven, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Winchester Groundbreaking Offers Neighbors Hope

BY Uma Ramiah
New Haven Independent (CT)
April 7, 2011
Dennis Grimes stood by, in a white hard hat and work boots, as city  
officials lauded a new construction project as "New Haven’s future."  
For Grimes, the groundbreaking also represents a lifeline-for him and  
his family.

"I've been unemployed for two and a half years," he said, after a  
press conference Wednesday to announce the start of a five-year, $45  
million rebuilding of the shuttered rifle factory on Winchester  
Avenue and Munson Street in Newhallville. "I'm a single man with five  
children - I really have to work."

"This gave me opportunity."

Crews broke ground Wednesday afternoon on the historic arms factory   
- where the rapidly expanding, New Haven-based company Higher One  
plans to move its headquarters once construction ends. The homegrown  
financial services organization hopes to keep and expand jobs in the  
city.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/ 
groundbreaking_offers_a_lifeline/id_35398

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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