West Hartford received a $200,000 grant for assessment activities of the former AC Petersen Ice Cream production facility, a 1.02-acre site located at 240 Park Road. The assessment and subsequential cleanup will allow the building’s existing businesses, including the Playhouse on Park, a performing arts theater, to expand into the environmentally affected areas that have been unused or underused for several decades, according to state officials. Another $688,000 grant will focus on demolition and remediation of the 1.21-acre site located at 579 New Park Ave. The remediation activities will enable the construction of a mixed-use, transportation-oriented development project that will include 70 residential housing units, officials said. The grants are part of a total of $18.8 million in state grants that will be used for the assessment and remediation of 227 acres of contaminated land across Connecticut, and allow them to be restored to productive use, state officials said.
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