From Brian Lockhart, CT Post:
One day, the 18 acres along Kossuth Street in the lower East Side could be the site of a minor league soccer stadium, a hotel and over 1,000 housing units.
But first, developer Andre Swanston and his Connecticut Sports Group, per state environmental regulations, need to exorcise, or at least safely contain, the ghosts of Bridgeport’s industrial past — ground contamination left behind by manufacturers and other operations that, beginning in the 1880s, at one time or another occupied that same land.
A just-released environmental site assessment lists those prior users as: An iron works, coal yards, the American Graphophone Co., Frisbie Pie Co., textile and corset manufacturers, a business involving marine engine work, Bridgeport Paper Box Co., a typography and printing operation, trucking businesses, a maker of gauges and valves, a dump, and, most recently, a greyhound racing track and betting facility.
Those details and far more are outlined in the 6,711-page environmental analysis, prepared by Shelton-based engineers Tighe & Bond. Commissioned by the area’s Metropolitan Council of Governments (MetroCOG), a regional planning organization, the massive document lays out what Connecticut Sports Group must to do to clean up and/or contain pollutants.
Full story here
Yes, as expected…………Now get started cleaning it up
The clean-up can be simple as:
Collect all contaminated material and place it inside specially designed Soccer balls. Buried the balls on site (The Soccor Field). Of course, full cost must be absorbed by developer.
Who has read the 6,711 page report? Investors? Legislators?
Is there an Executive Summary for “time challenged OIB readers” who care to deal with the obivous delays, distractions, and timeline deferrals?
Perhaps the Bridgeport voting public should know that the existing City Charter, currently under review to modernize and make reading it simpler and more organized, has a Chapter that includes a Commission on Economic Development and Housing. But if no such commission exists, just CITY CHARTER words guiding officials that are not read, or if read ignored, or worse, what can a citizen do? Time will tell.
Where’s the battery factory that Joe and Ned promised us in their “Let’s Move On From The Bridgeport Ballot Fraud Scandal” joint statements after the special election for mayor last year?
Put the battery factory in the Majestic theater,Downtown ice skating rink,Steel point Casino file.