Sixteen municipalities across Connecticut are being awarded $8.7 million in state grants that will help the communities revitalize and remediate specific brownfield properties so they can be put back into productive use and attract new development.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said said more than $150 million has been committed to cleaning up brownfields since 2012. The grants come under the state Department of Economic and Community Development’s (DECD) Brownfield Remediation Program.
Under this round of allocations, $7 million will go towards the cleanup and redevelopment of five former industrial sites, while $1.7 million will be put towards the assessment of 12 other sites around the state.
Remediation and redevelopment projects in Greater Hartford include:
- Meriden (144 Mills St.t): $2 million grant to abate, demolish and remediate a 3-acre former public housing site in downtown Meriden to be redeveloped as a mixed-use transit-oriented development in partnership with a city-selected developer. This site was the subject of a DECD-funded assessment grant awarded in 2014.
- Somers (40 Maple St.): $1.8 million grant to abate, demolish and remediate the former Somersville Mill, which was substantially destroyed in a 2012 fire. This site was the subject of a DECD assessment grant awarded in 2014.
- Southington (318 North Main St.): $400,000 grant to demolish and remediate the former Corbin and Beaton site for redevelopment as commercial office space.
Assessment Projects
- Berlin: $100,000 grant for investigation of 303 New Britain Road.
- Bristol: $50,000 grant for investigation of 273 Riverside Ave.
- Hebron: $95,000 grant for investigation of 459 Church St.
- Plymouth: $60,000 grant for investigation of 142 Main St.
- West Hartford: $200,000 grant for investigation of 25 Brixton St.
- Windham: $120,000 grant for investigation of 1248 Main St.
