Malloy announces brownfield clean-up grants: $200,000 for Bridgeport; $200K to investigate conditions at O’Sullivan’s Island in Derby; $200,000 for Newtown to probe former Fairfield Hills

The governor has announced $3.8 million in grants to 21 towns and cities to tackle the long-term problem of contaminated building sites called brownfields. In all, 310 acres across 48 sites will be investigated.

“As Connecticut’s economy continues to grow, more and more of our legacy manufacturing and other brownfield sites are becoming ripe for redevelopment and reuse,” Malloy said in a statement after a news conference in Norwich.

The projects include:

  • Bethany — Regional Economic Xcelleration — $75,000 for the investigation of 29 acres on two parcels in Bethany that have the potential to support agricultural uses, as well as housing and research, lab, and training space.
  • Bridgeport — $200,000 for the investigation of 13.2 acres on two parcels, Remington Shaver and 60 Main Street, the site of a proposed mixed-use development with affordable housing and public open space.
  • Derby – Valley Council of Governments — $200,000 to investigate the site conditions at O’Sullivan’s Island in Derby.
  • Newtown — $200,000 to investigate 9 buildings on the Fairfield Hills campus.
  • Norwalk — $200,000 award to investigate a 4.9-acre site, currently a parking lot near the South Norwalk station, for the feasibility of mixed-use, transit-oriented development project.
  • Shelton — $79,000 to study 1.7 acres known as the Rolfite property for mixed-use redevelopment.
  • Southbury – Valley Council of Governments — $200,000 to assess the baseline environmental conditions of the 449-acre Southbury Training School site in Southbury, done in conjunction with the Southbury Training School Task Force.
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For more information about the Municipal Brownfields Assessment and Inventory Grant Program or other state brownfield redevelopment programs, visit www.ctbrownfields.gov.