The long-awaited residential and commercial development of the former Ideal Forging site in downtown Southington may break ground on the first building in the next month or two. Property owners of the industrial site have approval to build the foundation of a 55-unit residential building and are working to get a multifamily construction permit. The project, Greenway Commons, includes hundreds of residential units as well as commercial space. Contamination from the forging site was cleaned up but the project stalled due to financing and other challenges. Meridian Development Partners, a New York firm, sold the property last year to 195 Center Street Associates, a Branford company. Lou Perillo, the town’s economic development coordinator, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the first building could start going up this year. The last he’d heard from the company was that construction would start in the next 30 to 60 days. It’s unclear if construction will continue through the winter. Perillo said excavation equipment will be onsite and that the company’s preference is for it to be used immediately but he wasn’t sure about the schedule.
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