West Hartford Parcel Designated For State Brownfield Grant

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A parcel in West Hartford is getting nearly $1 million in state brownfield aid.

Gov. Ned Lamont Thursday announced that his administration is awarding approximately $17.9 million in state grants to help with the costs of remediating 40 blighted parcels in 13 towns and cities across Connecticut for the purposes of "putting them back into productive use."

The grants are from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Brownfield Remediation Program. They are expected to leverage $427 million in private funding and will help in the investigation and clean-up of approximately 78 acres of land.

Nearly 3 of those acres are in West Hartford.

Lamont said one grant is for $953,646 to clean-up the former Puritan Furniture Store property located at 1051 and 1061 New Britain Ave.

A 131-unit mixed-income, mixed-use transit-oriented development will be constructed on the 2.97-acre site.