[CPEO-BIF] Affordable housing on brownfields in Stamford, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BLT addresses affordable-housing shortage in Stamford, Norwalk

by Kevin Zimmerman
Daily Voice Plus (CT)
September 30, 2019 

Affordable housing may be increasingly hard to come by around the country, but commercial real estate developer Building and Land Technology (BLT) says it’s actively working to address that problem in Stamford and Norwalk.

“A lot of people have the impression that all the new development going on hasn’t created opportunities for BMR (below market rate) units,” said BLT CEO Ted Ferrarone. “That is a misperception.”

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At the start of the year, BLT announced it had finished the active remediation of approximately 90 acres of formerly environmentally impacted land in Stamford’s South End and Waterside neighborhoods in the Harbor Point area, transforming those sites from empty brownfields into productive, modern, tax-generating uses. Remedial actions included excavation and off-site disposal of more than 200,000 cubic yards of polluted soil, installation of more than 50 acres of geomembrane engineered controls, construction of vapor barriers and mitigation systems and the reuse of more than 100,000 cubic yards of crushed concrete and recycled stone.

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For the entire article, see
https://dailyvoiceplus.com/fairfield/fairfield-business-journal/real-estate/blt-addresses-affordable-housing-shortage-in-stamford-norwalk/776574/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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