Mohegan tribal officials say Gov. Ned Lamont assured them Monday that the state will soon act on an additional $7 million in bonding for the environmental cleanup of the former Norwich Hospital property in Preston, a nearly 400-acre site the tribe has long hoped to develop. In an earlier session Monday with reporters at the tribe’s government center, Gessner, Bunnell and two other members of the Mohegan Tribal Council — William Quidgeon Jr. and John Harris — discussd the status of the project, known as Preston Riverwalk, which would be developed across the Thames River from Mohegan Sun, the tribe’s flagship resort casino. In October, Preston town officials and Mohegan tribal leaders requested the state provide a $7 million grant to be combined with a $2 million state loan the town had previously secured to remove extensive coal ash cinders the state had used for decades for roadbeds and parking lot sub-surfaces.
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