Avangrid says it’s plan to invest $191M in CT gas companies, UI hinges on legal, regulatory rulings

by Kimberly Glassman | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized

Orange-based Avangrid, the corporate parent of The United Illuminating Co. as well as Southern Connecticut Gas and Connecticut Natural Gas, is looking to move ahead with $191.6 million in capital investments covering the operations of its utilities in the state. The...

Amtrak Talks Connecticut River Bridge Replacement, High-Speed Rail Planning

by Kimberly Glassman | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

Since 2016, when southeastern Connecticut learned of a plan by the Federal Railroad Administration to construct a high-speed rail bypass through several historic towns in the region between Old Saybrook and Charlestown, RI, town officials and members of the public...

New Ninth Square mixed-use project breaks ground in New Haven

by Kimberly Glassman | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

City and state officials along with members of the development team Friday morning broke ground on a new mixed-use, housing development at the corner of State and Chapel streets in New Haven’s Historic Ninth Square District. The $56.4 million project, led by...

DOT to hold information meeting on Groton bridge replacement

by Kimberly Glassman | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

The state Department of Transportation will hold a virtual public information meeting at 7 p.m. Monday on the planned replacement of the bridge carrying Groton Long Point Road over the Amtrak railroad. “This project will address the existing structural deficiencies...

Why Bridgeport’s bridge rebuild is taking decades more than Norwalk’s — ‘It’s quite sickening’

by Kimberly Glassman | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

State officials are pledging to take a year to rebuild Norwalk’s Fairfield Avenue highway overpass, demolished after a fiery May 6 crash, at an estimated cost of about $20 million. Meanwhile Bridgeport’s multi-year slog to install a new Congress Street...