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Simsbury to apply for state brownfield grant for Wagner Ford site; town would act as applicant

2290874 · February 10, 2025
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Selectmen authorized a grant application to the Connecticut DECD Brownfield Remediation program seeking $450,000 to support soil remediation at the former Wagner Ford site; the grant is reimbursement-based and would require the town to be the municipal applicant

The Board of Selectmen voted on Feb. 10 to authorize the town manager to submit a Municipal Brownfield Grant application to the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development to support remediation on property at 1263–1285 Hop Meadow Street (the Wagner Ford site).

Tom Fitzgerald and planning staff said the town would serve as the municipal applicant because the DECD Municipal Brownfield program requires a municipal applicant; the developer…

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