Murphy told city officials Monday he will provide as much support as possible for an application the city submitted in April seeking $24 million in federal funds from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program. The RAISE application is pending approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation. If approved, the city has committed $6 million for a $30-million project that would fund the second phase of the Naugatuck River Greenway project, West Main Street renovations and repairs, creation of a riverfront park on Jackson Street and installation of electric vehicle charging stations at the Meadow Street train station parking lot.

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Centre Square Village, as By Carrier has called the structures, will extend north from the eastern corner of Hope Street and North Main Street, to border the nearby McDonald’s. Although recent plans were changed, city partnership with By Carrier has sought to add an additional floor and the redesigning of buildings to allow for more parking, more apartment space and a further streamlined approach to the proposed building plans in hopes of shortened build time. What was once slated to be a three-building project is now two. Between the two buildings, around 104 apartment units are planned, an increase from the original 88. Buildings will be four stories tall with one fifth story tower on each building as part of a penthouse space. Around 8,260 square feet of retail space will be in each building on the ground floor. Each building will have a total of around 80,400 square feet of space, including the retail spaces. Each building will have 22 one-bedroom units, 22 two-bedroom units and eight three-bedroom units. As part of the new By Carrier development, parking ports and garages are anticipated to be added for resident use.

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Town Council Chair Kathy Pugliese said that the town has put out RFPs (request for proposals) for remediation work to the former White Oak Construction building at 1& 63 W. Main St., next to the Municipal Center. The town also plans to utilize $100,000 of the $200,000 allocated to the police department from ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding for building enhancements at the police station. Robertson Airport, the public use airport at 62 Johnson Ave., will also see the installation of new weather-related equipment to assist pilots in a $1.465 million project. Pugliese said that $1.3 million, about 90% of this project, will be covered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), $40,000 will be covered by state funding and the town will pay for the remaining $106,000.

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Gov. Ned Lamont, on Monday, announced plans to pump $75 million into the small business program. he State Bond Commission is set Friday to borrow $25 million to fund the state’s brownfield remediation grant program, and another $25 million for a rebooted version of the Small Business Express program. These are among a laundry list of economic development initiatives poised to receive tens-of-millions of dollars in funding on the state’s credit card. The brownfield program allows communities to apply for grants of up to $2 million each to clean up polluted sites for reuse. The new version of Small Business Express, called the Small Business Boost Program, will have a revolving loan fund, a separate revolving fund dedicated to minority business, as well as input from Connecticut-based bankers and Connecticut Innovations Inc. Loans from the minority revolving fund can range from $10,000 to $500,000 with a maximum interest of 4%, with terms of no more than 10 years.

State Bond Commission to inject millions into brownfields, small business and other development priorities

“Just over 13 months after city and state officials joined developer Carter Winstanley to break ground on the 10-story, 500,000-square-foot 101 College Street bioscience lab building, part of the city’s Downtown Crossing project, it’s on time and on budget, with four stories of steel up so far, officials said Tuesday. Downtown Crossing is a city infrastructure project that will create a system of urban boulevards on the former Route 34, aka Oak Street Connector right-of-way. 101 College Street is one of the new buildings being built within that area, and will be home to Arvinas Pharmaceuticals, the Alexion division of AstraZeneca, BioLabs and Yale University, among others.”

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Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim’s Democratic administration for the past few years has been seeking ways to revive regular commercial passenger service at Sikorsky, which currently caters to business, charter and private planes. That effort resulted in talks to either sell or lease the facility to the CAA, which operates Bradley International and five other state-owned airports and which, CAA and Bridgeport officials have argued, has the expertise and resources to bring back passenger service. In February the CAA’s board made a formal offer of $10 million for Sikorsky and in March Hoydick’s administration went public with its interest,

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With the demolition of city hall’s front brick exterior, workers observed that brick and concrete block walls were not “tied structurally with the building’s substructure” and additional ties were set to be installed in mid-July. The eastern facade of the building will not require ties because much of the area is going to be covered in glass. Ties will be required on other parts of the building. A change order was approved by city council for the work in the amount of $45,000. Abatement of the building is significantly completed and around $70,000 will be available from “asbestos contingency” to be utilized in other areas of the project. Excavation of additional space around city hall was slated along with interior office space framing activities and HVAC support and hanger installation.

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The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) in a statement said, “Construction is set to proceed by the end of 2022, with materials procurement through the winter and major construction beginning spring 2023.” The coronavirus pandemic has been one reason for the delay, according to the DOT, along with “design challenges and project management staff changes.” The Congress Street drawbridge got stuck in the open position over the Pequonnock River in 1997, during Ganim’s first tenure in office. The rusty hulk was demolished in 2010 under then-Mayor Bill Finch, who called it “the city’s most visible reminder of infrastructure neglect.” Ever since there has been talk about building a new structure not only to help the East Side and downtown economies, but also to improve emergency response. There is yet another possible wrinkle — the higher costs of construction materials that began rising during the start of the pandemic.

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The Glastonbury Town Plan & Zoning Commission finalized a developer’s proposal Tuesday to build a 74-unit apartment building that could be occupied in early 2024. The commission voted 4-2 to approve the application during a nearly four-hour meeting. Developer Richard Hayes, principal of Manchester/Hebron Avenue LLC, will build the multifamily units. The property, on Manchester Road and Hebron Avenue, is across the street from Buckingham Park. The complex will be known as Buckingham Corners. Hinckley Allen partner Timothy Hollister and associate Andrea Gomes represent Hayes. Hollister previously told the Hartford Business Journal that, if all goes as planned, construction could start in the fall and would take about 18 months. Occupancy could begin in early 2024, he said. Hollister also said that 70% of the units will go for the market share rate while the other 30% will be for moderate-income households. There will be 85 parking spaces, he said.

Glastonbury P&Z approves plan to build 74-unit apartment building

If approved by the committee and Congress, the town could receive the money by next June. The project was approved in 2019 to connect the neighborhoods, which currently use septic systems, to sewer systems to mitigate pollution to Long Island Sound. The associations governing Old Colony Beach, Old Lyme Shores Beach and Miami Beach, which are chartered neighborhoods and considered their own municipalities, approved the project at separate referendums. The public Sound View Beach came on after a townwide vote. The project stalled after higher-than-expected bids, due in part to supply chain issues, raised the project cost to $55.6 million — an almost 30% increase over the originally estimated $43.5 million. Assuming the federal grant money comes through, Whalen said, “our goal is to get a shovel in the ground by 2023 and have sewers flowing in 2025.” Officials from the town and beach communities will hold a public meeting at 10 a.m. on Aug. 27 at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School at 49 Lyme St., Old Lyme, to update residents on the status of the project, including projected costs and what improvements are planned.

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