The Board of Selectmen on Thursday approved the new agreement with state agencies that will allow the cleanup to resume at the former Norwich Hospital property to prepare to turn the property over to Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment for proposed major development. The agreement among the town, Mohegan Tribe and state Department of Economic and […]
Avangrid officials said the project has closed on an aggregate of approximately $2.3 billion of construction and term loan financing with nine global lending banks. The company now expects to begin construction work on Vineyard Wind 1 this fall. Avangrid is joining forces with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a Danish fund management and investment company, to […]
One week after the City Council approved bonding $740,000 to fund engineering designs for access roads into a proposed second business park, the Norwich Community Development Corp. on Tuesday approved the hiring of three contractors to do the work and one to seek federal funding for the project. The City Council approved the $740,000 funding […]
The state has assumed remediation of the “slope failure” caused by Ida’s heavy rains earlier this month near the TPC River Highlands, which left a refined products pipeline exposed and dozens of feet of train rails unsupported. The massive washout opened up near the golf course’s 13th hole Sept. 2, where large amounts of earth […]
The hospital has plans to demolish the structure, replacing it with an expanded electrical power plant, now in the basement of a neighboring building. Hospital officials say the power plant is sorely in need of an upgrade and needs to relocated above ground. The basement area, they said, is prone to flooding and where a […]
After declining last year to move forward with a plan to shift recreational programming to the town’s former high school, the Town Council is expected this month to re-visit that option, though such a project will now carry a substantially higher – about $10 million – price tag. The council in March 2020 declined to […]
The group secured prime developer status from the City Council last week for the area encompassing Waterfront Park, a walking pier that Mayor Michael Passero said is underutilized and in need of a major boost of water-related activity. Advanced American will have exclusive right to negotiate a development agreement or lease with no promises yet […]
Neighbors applauded the Planning and Zoning Commission’s denial of a special permit application to build an Amazon distribution center and warehouse at 5 Research Parkway. It was the conclusion of a five-month long process that resulted in the applicant, Montante Construction, being denied approval to redevelop the 180-acre site, formerly a Bristol-Myers Squibb medical research […]
Developer David Lattizori is proposing a $100 million expansion to his Perkins Farm development, which calls for a 72,000-square-foot medical building and a second 121-unit apartment complex. The first phase of the project, valued at $85 million, contains a 50,000-square foot Hartford Health Care medical building that opened in January 2020, as well as 121 […]
As previously reported, due to unanticipated issues causing a number of failed attempts set up coffer dams along the residential, waterfront stretch of state road, also known as Route 146, the CT DOT temporarily pulled the plug on the project, which it had started in September 2020, as of May 2021. The DOT announced it […]
