The Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development has launched a new round of brownfield funding of up to $1.5 million for historically significant sites.
The Historic Brownfield Revitalization Program will consider the state’s manufacturing and industrial history as developers and towns look to make strategic locations within cities and along waterfronts viable again, said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The program will provide grants up to $300,000 to conduct revitalization studies and assessments of any one of the estimated 400 historic brownfields around the state.
Previous rounds of remediation funding have received numerous applications for old mill properties, for example, but the applications lacked the information needed for the state to determine how the property eventually would be used. This new round of funding seeks to rectify that.
