The development had been the focus of more than two years of heated public hearings, an initial Planning and Zoning Commission denial and a court appeal before a deal was finalized in 2020 to allow 16 single-family homes behind the Huntington Congregational Church adjacent to Ripton Road. Huntington Village, LLC, which has no affiliation to the original developer, John Guedes, has filed plans for eight single-family homes on the 6.147-acre parcel, which is presently undeveloped. The new developer is seeking an amendment to the already approved Planned Development District.

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Owner and applicant Gary Merrigan of Windsor Locks-based M&L Development Corp. has gained approval to build 24 residential units at 64 South Elm St., for seniors age 55 and older called The Settlement at 64. The 3.1-acre development site is primarily vacant land except for one single-family residence. “It’s a great location,” Merrigan said, “you can walk to the high school and church,” or the public safety center and gathering area. Windsor Locks First Selectman Paul Harrington said Windsor Locks has a severe housing shortage, including senior housing units, and that this is a much-needed project for the town’s aging population.

Senior housing project pitched for Windsor Locks

NPU will receive the maximum award of $10 million to replace an estimated 4.7 miles of cast iron, wrought iron or bare steel pipes beneath city streets. Work will begin as soon as the grant money is released to NPU. Courtney praised NPU for recognizing that the $350 billion federal infrastructure law covered more than roads, bridges, rail and airports, although the grants are awarded through the U.S. Department of Transportation. With no grant limit announced, NPU applied for the more than $20 million that would be needed to replace all nine miles of aged gas lines. The $10 million will cover half the total, with that work to be done in two to three years. With no grant limit announced, NPU applied for the more than $20 million that would be needed to replace all nine miles of aged gas lines. The $10 million will cover half the total, with that work to be done in two to three years.

https://www.theday.com/local-news/20230412/norwich-public-utilities-to-receive-10m-federal-gas-line-replacement-grant/

Construction has begun on a $50 million state project to reconfigure a stop sign on the Route 17 on-ramp that leads to Route 9 northbound in Middletown to remedy a section of highway deemed one of the most dangerous in Connecticut. Aimed at reducing crashes and improving traffic movement, the Department of Transportation plan includes removing stop sign and building a full-length acceleration lane to allow vehicles to merge with other motorists without first being required to come to a complete stop, according to the agency. The contract was awarded to the Middlesex Corp., and the project is expected to be completed in fall 2026. The project will coincide with redevelopment of the city’s portion of the Connecticut Riverfront, which recently received a $12 million infusion from the state.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/ct-dot-begins-work-remove-stop-sign-route-9-17891522.php

The Town Council on Monday voted 5-1 to not enter into a 10-year agreement with the project’s land owner Ox Owner, LLC, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts-based developer Dakota Partners. Dakota Senior Development Director Eric Kuczarski said the failure to reach an agreement will not kill the project and said construction at the 42 Pink Row property, home to the historic Faria Beede Mill, is set to resume in June. He said the now $43 million project is 45% complete and on track to be finished by June 2024. There was one caveat to the timeline. If for some reason the owner would not be able to complete the project by the proposed start date, it would be able to push the start date back until it was complete and could generate revenue from its tenants. Kuczarski said the timeline would motivate Dakota to complete the project as quickly as possible in order to take full advantage of the deal.

https://www.theday.com/local-news/20230411/montville-housing-project-on-schedule-despite-rejection-of-tax-break/

After environmental testing, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to recommend moving forward with a project to add the town’s third turf field at Allen’s Meadow. As a result of the vote, the project will be submitted as a referendum for bonding at the annual Town Meeting on May 2. The Board of Selectmen’s vote came after it had learned that results of recent water tests showed no toxins were present that would be attributable to the town’s two existing artificial turf fields. The plans for the third turf field are posted on the town website, explaining the need for the project, the status of the lease and the environmental reviews along with costs. The turf field’s design and construction would cost about $1.82 million, according to the town website. With inflation and a 10 percent cost contingency, the total cost would come to $2.11 million.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/wilton-turf-field-vote-allen-s-meadow-17891225.php

Anthony Properties will start building on the site of the former National Welding plant in Newington later this year, and possibly as early as this spring. State officials have been eager to see construction there for the past decade, and located a CTfastrak station alongside it in 2015 partly as a way to spur transit-oriented development. Just last month, Southington approved Anthony Properties’ plan for a $55 million complex of apartment buildings along Route 229 just a few blocks north of the I-84 ramps. The contractors’ trade magazine Construction Journal reports that the project will cost an estimated $55 million and will include a parking garage, four stories of apartments, a swimming pool, a dog park and other amenities. The company has dubbed the development The Spark.

Texas developer building 232 apartments in Newington, 255 in Southington

Challenges facing the economically diverse, historically blue-collar town of East Hartford were not far from view Tuesday morning as Walsh toured two state representatives and a small clutch of journalists through several sites targeted for ambitious redevelopment projects. The tour began at the Silver Lane Plaza, a 22-acre site where two of three deteriorating retail buildings stand empty amid cracked and pitted parking lots, then wound through several sites where retail, office and residential developments are planned on sites that haven’t seen investment in several decades.
East Hartford is tapping $10 million through the state-funded Capital Region Development Authority for the Silver Lane Plaza project. About $4.5 million went to the prior owner as part of the eminent domain taking completed early this year, Walsh said. The remainder will be used to demolish buildings and resettle about a dozen retail tenants hanging on in one of three buildings on the site.

https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/challenges-and-high-ambitions-on-display-during-tour-of-east-hartford-development-sites

Mark Barnhart, the community and economic development director, said the town has an opportunity to apply for grants from the state to help remediate and redevelop the property at 81 Black Rock Turnpike, noting it is next to Fairfield Metro Station. The fund has $25 million available, with towns allowed to apply for up to $4 million in grants, Barnhart said at a recent meeting, where the Board of Selectmen gave the go ahead to apply for the grant. The estimated cost to remediate contaminants on the site is $3 million, Barnhart said, adding that Post Road Realty is the developer who built The Anchorage on Unquowa Road, a residential apartment building downtown. If the grant funding was approved, he said, the town could help the developer clean up the property before it is turned into something that generates tax revenue.

https://www.ctpost.com/fairfield/article/fairfield-brownfield-development-black-rock-trnpke-17880964.php?src=rdctpdensecp

As one of the nation’s oldest cities — founded in 1638 — New Haven has changed many times and in many ways over the years. Among the areas of the city that have changed significantly over the past few decades are Downtown New Haven, the area around Wooster Square, the Dixwell Avenue commercial district and Long Wharf. New construction also is rising — at long last — on the longtime parking lot that once was the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum before it was demolished in 2007. Dixwell Avenue — the Main Street of the city’s Dixwell and Newhallville sections, with a storied history as a mid-20th Century jazz mecca and center of African American commerce and culture — is another part of New Haven that has seen some of its major past efforts at revitalization, including the Dixwell Plaza shopping center, run their course and become targets for redevelopment.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new-haven/article/new-haven-ct-development-then-now-17858698.php