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424 Chapel St., now owned by the city.
A state deal to sell a Chapel Street warehouse, garage and office building to the city for $2.1 million went forward, among the latest local property transactions.
That was one of three state-city land swaps recently recorded on the city land records database.
The swaps included:
• On June 24, the city purchased a two-story, 58,481 square-foot building and abutting parking lot at 424 Chapel St. from the state Department of Transportation (DOT) for $2,101,000. The city plans to move the local Health Department and snow plow and street-sweeper maintenance operations to that site on the eastern edge of Wooster Square. Read more about those plans here.
• On June 21, the city gave back to the state a 0.06-acre parcel on Mill River Street. The city returned that derelict, triangular plot to the state after four decades owning it to help facilitate a potential deal between the state and a development team that wants to build 70+ new apartments at 1041 State St. Read more about those plans here.
• On June 3, the state paid Yale University and a Yale affiliate a total of $382,000 to buy 1,636 square feet of land near South Frontage Road and Congress Avenue and 276 square feet of land near Washington Avenue and Lafayette Street. State DOT spokesperson Kevin Nursick said the state bought those properties on behalf of the city to facilitate the Downtown Crossing project, where the city is using federal funds to convert Rt. 34 from an expressway to an at-grade boulevard. “The City requested that the CTDOT handle the property acquisition portion of the project and the properties will be turned over to the city,” Nursick said. Read more about Downtown Crossing here, here, and here.
And in other recent local property deals, affiliates of the Dixwell Plaza redevelopment team ConnCORP spent $2 million buying 210 and 220 Dixwell Ave. from Christ New Testament Church. Read more about their plans for the plaza here, and about other recent property pick-ups in that fraying commercial strip here.
See below for a full list of recent local property transactions
City of New Haven land records
I will bet this property on Chapel was taken by eminent domain . Can someone get info on this?
As I recall, it was the original Hamilton St exit which flung you off I95 south like a roller coaster to Chapel St. ( very scary). And now NH buys it back?? Even the State of CT can sucker NH to invest in something stupid.