MERIDEN —The city has changed its plans for the northern corner of the Meriden Green and instead of building a sensory garden, officials are proposing a park on the four-acre site. The lot is now used as a staging area for construction equipment at the Center Street Bridge reconstruction, but a new federal grant could help complete the park in the next year, city officials said this week. The city’s Finance Committee voted Thursday to allow City Manager Brian Daniels to apply to the Environmental Protection Agency office of Brownfields and Revitalization for a $4 million grant by Jan. 28. The grant was announced in December and is narrowly focused on uses that turn brownfields into parks, Daniels told the panel. Design drawings are 60 percent complete, officials said, and the city has been waiting for state funding to complete the work but was rejected in several earlier rounds.

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