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New Haven Gets 200K To Clean Brownfields

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An early rendering of the Whalley Avenue property.

The state granted New Haven $200,000 to perform environmental assessment on land that can then be developed into affordable housing after a clean-up.

Directed by the Department of Economic and Community Development, the grant is one of 16 across the state, a total of $8.7 million, intended to help cities clean up and renew empty properties so they can be used for future development.

These strategic investments help towns and cities take abandoned, blighted, and vacant properties, and bring them back to life in order to spur new investments, new development, and new jobs for those in the communities,” Malloy stated in a release Wednesday.

St. Luke’s Development Corporation will use the grant in New Haven to determine the environmental condition of properties at 10 – 12 Dickerman St., 117 – 125, 129 Whalley Ave. and 34 – 36 Sperry St. and the potential cost of cleaning them up, according to a release from Mayor Toni Harp.

The Dickerman Street property would be developed into two affordable housing units and additional rental units. The other two properties would be developed into a mixed-use project of 28 multifamily units on top of commercial and community space.

The city’s anti-blight agency, the Livable City Initiative (LCI), has already promised $100,000 to the construction phase of the project. St. Luke’s has committed about $200,000 for the first stages of development.

This comprehensive project will add inventory to the city’s affordable housing stock and improve the overall physical appearance of the neighborhood,” Mayor Harp said, in the release.

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