A plan to build a 4 1/2-story Amazon retail distribution facility in the city’s South End continues to draw opposition from neighbors looking to keep the massive facility out of their backyard. Bluewater Property Group is proposing to erect the 650,000-square-foot structure on a portion of the 155 city-owned acres along the Waterbury-Naugatuck line, an undeveloped, wooded area adjacent to Naugatuck Industrial Park. The project still requires zoning approvals from both Naugatuck and Waterbury. Tommy Hyde, executive director of Waterbury Development Corp., said the city has long marketed the industrially zoned property as an attractive location for a variety of uses, but, so far, to no avail. Bluewater’s special permit application was slated to be discussed Wednesday night at a zoning meeting in Naugatuck and is scheduled to be taken up by the Waterbury Zoning Commission in the coming weeks.
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