[CPEO-IRF] "Stratford [CT] still eyes Army plant site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stratford still eyes Army plant site

RICHARD WEIZEL
Connecticut Post
January 14 2007

STRATFORD - Now that Uncle Sam has essentially told Stratford, "We don't 
want you!" the big question is, who does the Army want to develop the 
79-acre former tank engine plant on Main Street.

It's too early to predict the fallout six days after the U.S. Army 
notified Stratford officials it has stripped the town of its authority 
to decide which group will develop the sprawling manufacturing site that 
closed as a manufacturing facility in 1995.

But both Team Stratford, the group chosen by the Town Council in 2000 as 
the preferred developer over then-Town Manager Mark Barnhart's advice, 
and numerous other developers will likely be lining up to submit new 
bids for the redevelopment job within weeks or months.

First, despite the Army's notice to the Town Council last week that, 
after 11 years, it lost patience with Stratford and would re-bid the 
project, leaders of Team Stratford still hope that decision can be reversed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5012517

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., 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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