[CPEO-BIF] Urban farm in Bridgeport, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans would turn Bridgeport lot into greenhouse


By BRIAN LOCKHART
Connecticut Post
June 2, 2013

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Antonio St. Lorenzo and Sean Richardson looked  
out at a tangled urban jungle.

The vacant, contaminated land at Central Avenue and Trowel Street is  
overgrown with weeds and grass, and features the occasional stray  
mattress - an unproductive, 3-acre-plus industrial brownfield in the  
East End.

…

The state has awarded their limited liability corporation, Heroes  
Village, a $1 million grant to help clean up the pollution. They want  
to build an 80,000-square-foot greenhouse to grow tomatoes, lettuce  
and peppers for distribution to stores, restaurants and, through an  
on-site community center, the local neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Plans-would-turn-Bridgeport-lot- 
into-greenhouse-4569256.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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