[CPEO-BIF] Waterbury Industrial Commons, Waterbury, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

King Industries To Put $50M Into Waterbury Expansion


By BRIAN DOWLING
Hartford Courant (CT)
December 10, 2013

King Industries Inc., an industrial chemical firm based in Norwalk,  
purchased land in Waterbury to expand its operations with a $50  
million manufacturing center on a remediated brownfield site, the  
city said Tuesday.

"This is an extraordinary moment for Waterbury," Mayor Neil M.  
O'Leary said in a statement.

The 11 acres of the company's new manufacturing center take up just  
more than a third of the industrial complex, which the city envisions  
as a "first-rate premier industrial park."

The brownfield site has seen its share of industry over the years. It  
once housed a brass rolling mill, a ball bearing factory and a  
casting shop. In 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave  
the city $550,000 to clean up the property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-king-industries-expansion- 
waterbury-20131210,0,2579018.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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