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Grant will fund brownfield study for Naugatuck revitalization
Published: Friday, March 19, 2010 BY PAUL SINGLEY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN NAUGATUCK — The borough will use grant money to search for underground contaminants on one of the sites pegged for development in the planned downtown revitalization project, Renaissance Place. The borough will use a $200,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to search for chemicals and other contamination at the General DataComm property at 6 Rubber Ave. The site is ground zero for Phase One of the four-phase, $710 million public and private development. The money will serve two purposes, Mayor Robert A. Mezzo said. First, it is necessary to have contaminated properties known as brownfields cleaned up before any development can begin on the land. And it allows Renaissance Place's private developer, the Fairfield-based Conroy Development Co., to begin discussions again about purchasing the property. Conroy must purchase the GDC building and property, which is appraised at about $9.1 million, before it can begin development on the site. Discussions had been stalled since the fall when Alexius Conroy said he made offers to buy the building and property, and GDC denied that he had made any legitimate offers. Many in Naugatuck have expressed serious doubts over whether Renaissance Place will ever be built. But Mezzo believes the continued studies — other contamination studies have been conducted and are ongoing — and discussions about the plan are proof that Naugatuck and Conroy have every intention of moving forward with Renaissance Place.
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