The expansion of the Fair Haven Community Health Care on Grand Avenue, a new commercial kitchen and food-business incubator for CitySeed and improvements to New Haven Harbor were among the New Haven projects funded by the State Bond Commission on Thursday.
The highest-dollar items on the list in New Haven County were $10 million to support demolition and soil cleanup of the former Anaconda American Brass site in Waterbury and $10 million toward the ConnCORP’s Dixwell Plaza redevelopment in New Haven.
The Dixwell Plaza project, spearheaded by business leader Carlton Highsmith, would create a 7.6-acre mixed-use development with 150 new housing units, estimated to cost $200 million in total.
Another New Haven project which got funding was nonprofit BIMEC’s supportive housing complex for those formerly incarcerated. The complex is planned for Shelton Avenue, and the project received $2.1 million.
The growing Fair Haven Community Health Care got $3 million toward its planned expanded facility at 382-394 Grand Ave., New Haven. The Board of Alders on Oct. 19 granted a request by the nonprofit to rezone some of its property to allow for more on-site parking, as a first step in building a new campus.
State Rep. Al Paolillo (D-New Haven) said of the funding, “I am happy to see New Haven with an opportunity to create greater health care access, leverage food entrepreneurship, respond and improve critical infrastructure that supports local economic development.”
The Connecticut Port Authority was granted $1 million in support of the New Haven Harbor Improvement Federal Navigation Project for “major design components” like analysis of rock at the entrance channel to the harbor and other measures to streamline traffic in the waterway.
The bond commission also awarded $780,000 to the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven to create a manufacturing training facility with specialized equipment to train new workers.
In Ansonia, the city got $6.5 million toward the redevelopment of the Ansonia Copper and Brass Site at 75 Liberty Street.
The city of Middletown also got $12 million to advance its plans to rejuvenate 220 acres of industrial land along the Connecticut River with new parks, community spaces, restaurants, retail and multifamily development.
Bridgeport’s East Main St. Revitalization Association received $750,000 as a planning grant for a streetscape program to elevate the potential of small businesses along the city’s East Main Street corridor.
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