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New Haven committee approves $9.6M in brownfield grant applications for two housing projects
Summary
The Community Development Committee voted to approve two state brownfield grant applications — $3,602,765 for remediation at State and George Street (a 461‑unit, two‑phase mixed‑income project) and $6,000,000 for remediation at Shelton Avenue (a 240‑unit, 100% affordable project) — and will submit both to DECD.
The New Haven Community Development Committee on Nov. 19 voted to approve two city applications for Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development brownfield cleanup grants that together total $9,602,765 and are intended to prepare two contaminated sites for housing redevelopment.
Michael Viscatelli, the city’s economic development administrator, told the committee the first application (LMDash2025Dash0563) seeks $3,602,765 to remediate a mixed‑use site at State and George Street that the development team expects to build in two phases, totaling 461 housing units, “25% of which would be affordable.” Viscatelli said environmental studies estimated the cleanup cost at about $3,600,000 “for cleaning the site up so it's suitable for residential use.”
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