For several years now, the buildings that made up the former University of Connecticut campus in West Hartford have stood vacant — and dilapidated by time — as new uses for the expansive property have been considered time and again by the site’s various owners. Now, with the portion of that property that served as the school’s parking lot already receiving the green light for developers to build 322 new homes, the western portion of the former college campus, where the same developers want to build hundreds more homes plus space for commercial uses, will be the subject of a wetlands hearing July 17. It’s the first hurdle for the development, named Heritage Park, as the site rests on and around a complex wetlands network. The most recent plans submitted to the town have developers seeking to build 211 housing units on the site. Those homes would be split between 93 apartments, 28 townhouses, and 90 assisted-living units. In total, between both portions of the property, the development would add 533 total homes in West Hartford, by far the biggest housing development to be proposed over the last decade.
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