Cranbury is one of four school construction projects underway in Norwalk, all in various stages of development. The project managers with Construction Solutions Group also provided updates to the Common Council’s Land Use and Building Management Committee on the nearly completed Jefferson Elementary School, the new Norwalk High School, and the South Norwalk neighborhood school. Construction crews broke ground just west of the existing Cranbury building a little over a month ago, and preparations to lay the foundations are underway, according to Mike Faenza, Construction Solutions Group project manager. The project remains on schedule for the new school to open in time to welcome students in for the 2023-24 school year, he said. The Norwalk High School project is moving into the design development phase, the committee was told. The schematic designs for the new school — to be built on the existing football field — were completed last month.

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Based on prior announcements, that prime land is supposed to house a staging area for the construction/maintenance of the off-shore Park City Wind project while the ferry, located across the harbor, prepares to eventually build a new terminal on a portion of the site. But as the ferry company’s environmental cleanup of its acreage — dubbed Barnum Landing — drags on, the two sides have yet to finalize a lease agreement, even though one was announced in spring, 2021. “I’m fairly confident that we will at some point have a deal,” Fred Hall, the ferry company’s general manager, told Hearst Connecticut Media. “We continue to talk … to try to define what exactly the relationship is going to be between the two entities in terms of space utilization.” Meanwhile another harbor front neighbor of the ferry site, Bridgeport Boat Works, a shipyard operator located at 731 Seaview Ave., is looking to get into the offshore wind business with its own staging area.

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A master plan has been unveiled that would reconnect Middletown to the Connecticut River, transforming an underused 220-acre stretch of riverfront land into a mix of uses, including restaurants, multifamily housing, entertainment, recreational trails and a pedestrian bridge leading to downtown. The town has hired the architecture and urban design firm Cooper Robertson to develop a plan for its waterfront, following a yearlong planning process. The plan, called Return to the Riverbend, proposes four separate districts on the waterfront. The design plan was created through a planning process that included comments from more than 1,200 residents during brainstorming sessions, interviews and surveys. Two years ago, residents approved a $55 million bonding package that included $5 million to redevelop the waterfront.

Master plan calls for transformation, new development along 220 acres of Middletown’s waterfront