The state’s economic development agency is awarding more than $10.5 million to clean up nine former mill and factory sites in seven Connecticut communities.
Hartford, Clinton, Middletown, New Haven, Vernon, Waterbury, and Watertown, will immediately receive the funds to clean up polluted properties and redevelop the sites for affordable housing and mixed use development.
Hartford is getting a $500,000 grant to assist with asbestos and lead abatement on a Pearl Street property that is slated for mixed use, including 66 residential ownership units.
The Middletown Transit District is getting a $964,339 loan for remediation and soil cap, helping to finance a new transit station.
Goatville Development, of New Haven, is getting a $1,748,500 loan for a mixed-use development that will include approximately 200 housing units on the Star Supply site.
Kaplan Mill Works, of Vernon, is getting a $2,000,000 loan for the remediation and reuse of the Hockanum Mill in Rockville.
Waterbury and the Waterbury Development Corporation is getting a $780,000 grant which is gap financing to help complete remediation and demolition work at the Washington Avenue Business Park, and an additional $2,000,000 grant to help the Waterbury Development Corporation with site remediation after a fire at 313 Mill Street.
Frost Bridge Associates, of Watertown, is getting a $314,500 loan for remediation and reuse work at a construction and demolition debris recycling facility.
