The town has won $5.4 million in state aid to demolish and abate the abandoned middle school on Newhall Street, a site Mayor Lauren Garrett hopes ultimately will become Hamden’s “community campus.” Garrett has proposed spending $15.4 million, the bulk of the town’s remaining $18 million in ARPA money, on the community campus. The entire project is expected to cost $59 million, according to a town application for state funding. Located in Newhall, one of Hamden’s most underserved neighborhoods, the community campus would house child care and elderly services, social services, a food pantry, an arts and cultural center, a library and a health and wellness center, Garrett wrote.
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