The borough has been awarded three grants totaling just over $8 million. They include more than $5.7 million in a Community Investment Fund grant to improve a section of Rubber Avenue, a $650,000 state Department of Transportation grant for a pedestrian bridge downtown and a $1.6 million federal grant for Naugatuck Senior Center. The funds will also supplement the borough’s Rubber Avenue project that is underway. That project calls for reconstruction of two-thirds of a mile of Rubber Avenue, from the intersection of Melbourne and Hoadley streets to Elm Street. It will include drainage improvements, new sidewalks, landscaping along the road and a new roundabout at the four-way intersection of Rubber Avenue and Meadow and Cherry streets.
Naugatuck addressing Rubber Avenue project, Senior Center upgrades