[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut "Municipalities are stuck with costly, blighted shells of former industrial sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Cities Project: Municipalities are stuck with costly, blighted shells of former industrial sites

BY MICHAEL PUFFER R
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (CT)
June 1, 2019

WATERBURY - One key to a better future for Connecticut’s cities could lie beneath the ugly scars from its industrial past, blighted and often toxic pockets that mar city landscapes statewide.

The state has made strides developing programs to attract developers to former industrial sites in cities, spending $206 million over the past decade alone.

But the state’s system of measuring the gains made by pouring millions into cleaning its polluted sites is flawed - the state doesn’t track number of jobs created or taxes generated after cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.rep-am.com/local/news-local/2019/06/01/the-cities-project-municipalities-are-stuck-with-costly-blighted-shells-of-former-industrial-sites/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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