[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield cleanup grants helping reshape downtown Meriden, " Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield cleanup grants helping reshape downtown Meriden


By Molly Callahan 
Meriden Record-Journal (CT)
February 22, 2016

MERIDEN - Between cleanup grants, Transit-Oriented District planning and implementation grants, and Choice Neighborhood grants, the city has received more than $24 million in state and federal money for downtown Meriden in recent years.

Any visit downtown yields the sights of a city in transition, with construction in almost any direction one looks. The former Hub site is nearing completion as a flood storage basin and park; a new train station on State Street is taking shape; a Meriden Housing Authority and Westmount Development Group joint venture at 24 Colony St. is springing up; 11 Crown St., 116 Cook Ave., and the former Factory H site are all nearing cleanup and demolition; and residents of the Mills Memorial Apartment complex are leaving and the buildings are about to be torn down.

All this, while year after year, residents urge elected officials to attract more businesses and more private development to lighten the tax burden on homeowners.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrecordjournal.com/meriden/meridennews/8479300-129/brownfield-cleanup-grants-helping-reshape-downtown-meriden.html

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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
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