[CPEO-BIF] "Turning brown to green" in Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Turning brown to green

John Pirro
Danbury News-Times (CT)
July 17, 2012

In Redding, workers are preparing the site of a former wire factory  
for development of a mixed-use complex that town leaders envision  
will one day include a thriving combination of apartments, shops and  
restaurants.

In Newtown, asbestos and other hazardous materials have been stripped  
from six buildings that were once part of a sprawling state hospital,  
and economic development officials are looking for businesses  
interested in renovating them for their own use.

In New Milford, a vacant, 300,000-square-foot brass mill is gradually  
deteriorating as an engineering firm prepares an estimate of how much  
it will cost to tear it down and make fit for reuse the 72-acre  
property on which it sits.

And in Danbury, land where generations of workers built the city's  
reputation as the hatting capital of the world is nothing more than  
an overgrown lot, the factory that once occupied it vanished like the  
industry itself.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Turning-brown-to- 
green-3712636.php

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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