[CPEO-BIF] "Vacant No More: How Connecticut Is Investing in Abandoned Properties"

[Lenny Siegel]

Vacant No More: How Connecticut Is Investing in Abandoned Properties

By Charlie Smart
WNPR Radio (CT)
July 28, 2015

Across Connecticut, abandoned sites are being built back up. It’s complicated and expensive work, but in recent years, the state has put millions of dollars towards breathing new life into the long-forgotten spaces of the industrial era.

To a driver on the road, the Hockanum Mill in Vernon is an imposing structure. Set only a few dozen feet back from West Main Street, the building rises four stories high and stretches on for several hundred feet, a tall brick smoke stack towering behind it.

From the inside, the building comes to life with a history that can quite literally be seen.

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For the entire article, see
http://wnpr.org/post/vacant-no-more-how-connecticut-investing-abandoned-properties#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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