[CPEO-BIF] "Bridgeport [Connecticut] gets $200K to clean up ex-Remington site for redevelopment"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bridgeport gets $200K to clean up ex-Remington site for redevelopment

Brian Lockhart
Danbury News Times (CT)
April 16, 2014

BRIDGEPORT - It was going to be a transformative project for the South End and the city as a whole.

Five high-rise residential towers, between 15 to 35 stories tall, along the waterfront that would change Bridgeport's skyline and prove to the world the city was becoming the place to live, work and play.

But as Park City residents well know, it can take some time before developers' and elected officials' dreams for the next big project are translated into actual bricks-and-mortar buildings.

It's been seven years and an economic crash since Westport Property Management received its zoning approvals to build a $500 million development at the vacant Remington Shaver plant. Now, the project is showing signs of life.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newstimes.com/business/article/Bridgeport-gets-200K-to-clean-up-ex-Remington-5408296.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
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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