In May, the development group The Hexagon Group submitted plans to the town that includes demolishing the Gozzo Design & Remodel building at 579 New Park Ave. to make way for a 70-unit mixed-use housing development called The Jayden. The development would include 14 affordable housing units. The Hexagon Group proposal is the second of its kind in the transit-oriented district, following Sami Abunasra’s plans to turn the former Puritan Furniture site into a 150-unit mixed-used housing development. The transit-oriented district was created to promote non-vehicle modes of transportation and what West Hartford’s town planner Todd Dumais has said in the past are the four D’s of this kind of development: “distance, density, diversity and design.” Building in the district also allows for developers to opt for higher density occupancy, lower parking requirements and incentives for including affordable housing.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/westhartford/article/west-hartford-ct-affordable-housing-new-park-ave-18306952.php

Fast Track Realty, the company that is proposing to build a sports and entertainment complex near the Massachusetts border, is set to pay a fixed tax assessment for 10 years, providing the project’s site plan is approved. All Sports Village, as the project is called, is expected to have outdoor athletic fields and a new basketball building along with a hotel, restaurant, spa, bar, additional retail space, and entertainment center. It is forecast that the project’s improvements and new construction will increase the total fair market value of the property by about $85 million and provide a significant amount of economic spillover to the region as well as serve as a job creator, Zoppo-Sassu said. The project originally called for Fast Track Realty to lease a portion of the 32.6-acre Brainerd Park, which was donated to Enfield by Agnes M. Brainerd in 1958, for playing fields.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/journalinquirer/article/enfield-all-sports-village-fixed-tax-assessment-18308254.php

The federal government on Tuesday signed off on Revolution Wind, the first large-scale offshore wind power project that would bring its electricity directly to Rhode Island. Revolution Wind, a joint venture of Danish developer Ørsted and the Massachusetts utility Eversource, would be in federal waters more than 15 miles south of Rhode Island and 12 miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard, the companies say. It would bring its power via an undersea cable to Quonset Point. Rhode Island is buying 400 megawatts of the project’s power, and Connecticut 304 megawatts. The federal government says that’s enough power for almost 250,000 homes. Supporters say offshore wind will help the states combat climate change and create good-paying jobs. While it will be Rhode Island’s first utility-scale wind farm, it will also serve as Connecticut’s first offshore wind farm, period, the developers say.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/offshore-wind-project-revolution-wind-gets-federal-approval/ar-AA1fCFiZ

A last-minute amendment to a proposed $44.7 million bonding ordinance to build a new police station forced the City Council to delay a vote Monday to approve the ordinance and place it on the Nov. 7 ballot for a referendum. The council now must act at its Sept. 5 meeting on the proposal, two days before the state deadline for placing items on the referendum ballot. In response, during council discussion, Alderwoman Stacy Gould amended the bonding ordinance to include language that the total projected $44.75 million cost include any state or federal grants the city might obtain to support the project. The council adopted the amendment, and the council will hold a public hearing on the amended ordinance Sept. 5 prior to a vote to send the item to referendum. The $44.75 million also would include potential property acquisition and demolition costs.

https://www.theday.com/local-news/20230821/norwich-city-council-delays-action-on-proposed-new-police-station/

At the Aug. 8 Special Town Meeting, voters approved 32-30 the sale of 39.1 acres of town-owned vacant land at 125 Alexander Parkway to NE Edge, LLC, who seeks to build the data center on it and two adjacent parcels to support some of the world’s largest data companies, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Meta. The sale was authorized for $5,004,800. Town Manager Mary Calorio said on Monday that she was unaware of any residents’ objections. Once the data center is built out, the town stands to gain as much as $165 million over the 30 year life of the host community agreement. Calorio spoke highly of the project. “This project is environmentally clean and financially advantageous to the town,” she said.

https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/2023/08/22/killingly-to-sell-125-alexander-parkway-ne-edge-for-hyperscale-data-center/70642780007/

Monday Properties — which has offices in Manhattan and Arlington, Va., — is looking to construct a four-building residential complex with 508 apartments at 900 Long Ridge Road, just south of the Merritt Parkway exit. The office park falls in a C-D zoning district, defined as a “Designed Commercial District” by city regulations. The Zoning Board can approve multi-family residential developments in the district by special permit, regulations say, because of a 2021 text change approved by the board itself. The question of what to do with Stamford’s aging corporate office parks has roiled city politics for decades. The Stamford Planning Board has not yet scheduled a date to discuss the application, city planner Vineeta Mathur said in an email.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/stamford-long-ridge-apartments-proposal-18289804.php

Construction at Saint Aloysius’ New Canaan campus is underway, despite the school closing in this past year. The 65-year-old Catholic school was temporarily operating out of the church’s Holy Spirit campus in Stamford. It was supposed to move to the New Canaan this fall but closed its doors due to low enrollment numbers. The plan for the new building is still underway and will instead be used to house the church’s “religious education program.” That program serves 825 children, and is expected to increase with their planned pre-K program , said Pastor Rob Kinnally of the St. Aloysius Parish in a separate letter regarding the schools closure.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/education/article/construction-continues-saint-aloysius-new-canaan-18290122.php?src=sthpdesecp

Killingly has received $800,000 for a brownfield multipurpose grant from the EPA to help remediate the 17-acre Ballouville Mill site, the 12-acre Danielson-Putnam Twin Drive-in site, and the one-acre Old Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is part of a large increase in brownfield remediation funding nationwide, from around $100 million to $1.5 billion divided over a five-year period due to the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. This means that many brownfields that have been backlogged can now start the remediation process, said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, who visited Killingly on Tuesday. Sites that are abandoned and in disrepair like this represent less tax revenue for the town, but are also prone to fires and vandalism, Courtney said. So far, Killingly has completed Phase I and started Phase II site assessment. The town hopes to finish remediation over the next year, and then begin directly marketing the property, Calorio said.

https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/2023/08/21/killingly-brownfield-remediation-funds-ballouville-mill-old-borough-wastewater-treatment-plant/70618610007/

Town leaders weren’t able to pull off a complex land swap deal to reconfigure the Spring Street and West Street intersection in time to receive state money but still hope to make the roadway improvement in the future. Since the road project wasn’t ready, the town instead applied to use the state’s grant to resurface the Southington High School track. Spring Street ends at West Street but doesn’t quite line up with West Pines Drive, which intersects with West Street just a bit to the north. That unusual geometry has resulted in accidents and traffic delays, according to town officials. DelSanto said there have been more than 40 accidents in that area over the past three years. In July, town leaders were notified about the state’s Small Town Economic Assistance Program grants. That gave Southington five weeks to submit an application on how it would use $500,000.

https://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Southington/Southington-News/Southington-tries-to-reconfigure-West-Street-intersection-through-land-swap.html

More than 222,000 U.S. bridges need major repair work or should be replaced, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) analysis of the recently released U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) 2023 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database. That figure represents 36 percent of all U.S. structures. States currently have access to $10.6 billion from the 2021 federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA) bridge formula funds that could help make needed repairs, with another $15.9 billion to be available in the next three years. As the end of FY 2023 approaches on Sept. 30, states have committed $3.2 billion, or 30 percent of available bridge formula funds to 2,060 different bridge projects, with $7.4 billion still coming.

https://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/artba-reports-222000-us-bridges-need-repair/62074