“About 30,000 people a day are driving by and not seeing the best of Stamford,” said Compton, the president and CEO of the Mill River Park Collaborative. That could soon change, thanks to a recently secured Community Investment Fund state grant that will provide the city with $7.7 million to complete the “Community Commons” project at the park. The commons refers to the southeastern section of the park that currently holds a small dog park and a large area filled with gravel. Once complete, the renovated area will swap out the gravel for a large grassy area named the “great lawn,” as well as new dog parks for large and small dogs located closer to the intersection with Broad Street. The reason the funding was approved this time, she said she believes, is that the city was able to get $4.5 million in federal dollars for the work, which got the project off the ground.
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