[CPEO-BIF] Torrington, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Esty discusses brownfields, economic future of city with officials


By Ben Lambert
Torrington Register Citizen (CT)
April 18, 2016


TORRINGTON - City officials met Monday with U.S. Representative Elizabeth Esty to discuss the ongoing redevelopment of brownfields and the economic future of the city. 

The city is currently engaged in a series of brownfields-related projects, buoyed by a state grant received earlier in the year from the state Department of Economic and Community Development. 

As part of this effort, two properties, at 100 Franklin Street, the former Hendey Machine Company and Stone Container site, 100 Summer Street, are set to be put into use, and a strategy to govern the future of brownfields sites around the city is to be created and codified.

Economic Development Director Erin Wilson said Monday that the Franklin Street property is to be developed as part of an ongoing “riverfront recapture” project, which includes the construction of a walking trail along the banks of the Naugatuck River. The grant will be used to assess the site, and how it can be better set up for future investment. Wilson mentioned the closure of the five-way intersection as a potential step.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.registercitizen.com/article/RC/20160418/NEWS/160419601

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