[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "New owners of vacant Stratford Army Engine Plant [CT] aim to start demolition this fall"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New owners of vacant Stratford Army Engine Plant aim to start demolition this fall

By Richard Chumney, 
Connecticut Post
June 19, 2024

STRATFORD — The new owners of the former Army Engine Plant plan to start tearing down the facility as soon as this fall, the first step in what is expected to be a yearslong effort to redevelop the waterfront property.

The long-awaited remediation and demolition of the sprawling complex, which once manufactured World War II Corsair fighter-bombers but has sat vacant for nearly three decades, is expected to take at least two and a half years to complete. 

But the work, which includes removing hazardous material and importing a million tons of fill to raise the property out of a flood zone, will allow the developers to transform the site into new businesses and amenities.  


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For the entire article, see
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/new-owners-aim-raze-stratford-army-engine-plant-19520083.php

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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