The borough is developing a public-private partnership to bring a freight rail project to the former Uniroyal site. The partnership would include Darien-based Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services Inc., which owns or leases more than 100 railroads across North America, to develop a Naugatuck Industrial Rail Park off Elm Street. Hunter said some of the advantages of the site for businesses include direct rail access, being in a strategic location, lower transportation costs and access to labor and incentives. Some of the potential uses include warehousing, lumber distribution, bulk propane and recycling and trans-loading, a shipping term referring to the transfer of goods from one mode of transportation to another. Genesee & Wyoming Railroad employs roughly 90 people in Connecticut and has operations in 42 states, a company spokesman said in 2023.
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