The City Council voted Tuesday to apply for a $1.4 million state grant to help build a new Meriden Soccer Athletic Complex Project at Columbus Park. The new fields in Columbus Park will ensure residents still have a place to play soccer, since the fields currently located next to MidState Medical Center on Lewis Avenue are slated to close. The city has a 99-year lease agreement with the hospital but MidState has stated it needs the property to build a new medical office building for cancer treatments. The new medical building will be taxable. MidState has committed $1.5 million to the city’s soccer fields relocation. The project has been discussed with the council for several years, but was delayed by the pandemic, Coon said. Officials worked with MidState and field users to search for a replacement site.
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