Buyer found for Enfield Square; mall to be converted into retail, housing, hotels with $250M project

by Joelyn Leon | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized

The dilapidated Enfield Square mall is slated to be transformed — through a $250 million project — into a new mixed-use area, complete with retail, housing, two hotels, and recreation space. Woodsonia Acquisitions, based in Nebraska, has entered a purchase and sale...

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

by Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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...