Waterbury officials are preparing to spend another $5.44 million on a long-running cleanup of the former Anaconda American Brass site near the city center, preparing for its redevelopment. The roughly 20.5-acre site along Freight Street had, until recent years, hosted a massive industrial complex that had serviced the city’s once-prosperous brass industry for well over a century. As the brass industry faded, portions of a building at 170 Freight St. were leased out to various companies. The neighboring building at 130 Freight St. hosted a handler of environmental waste products. City officials have used millions of state and federal grant dollars in recent years to acquire and demolish buildings in the complex that were aging or entirely decrepit and failing.
Waterbury to spend $5.44M advancing cleanup, redevelopment of former Anaconda Brass site
