In just a few months, freshman State Senator Herron Gaston has carved out a personality and policy profile buoying the credentials of the city’s legislative
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Category: Development and Zoning
State Approves $3.5 Million To Complete Key East End Development Featuring Grocery Store, Healthcare Facility
Honey Locust Square project along Stratford Avenue corridor. Backed by the city’s legislative delegation, the state has awarded Anthony Stewart’s Honey Locust Square project in
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Will GE Credit Union Electrify An East End Development? Ganim’s Pitch To M&T Draws A Response
Mayors can make things happen. Residents of the East End of Bridgeport whose Black voters overwhelmingly returned Joe Ganim to the mayoralty in 2015 have
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Ganim Pitches M&T Bank’s CEO To Greenlight East End Branch, “Underserved Community”
Talk to residents and stakeholders in comeback-trail East End about neighborhood necessities and the refrain is clear: we need a grocery store, pharmacy, healthcare facility
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Hospital Weighs Purchase Of Former Harding High Property, Officials Seek Housing Component
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The city has placed the former Harding High School property on the market, and several officials said neighbor Bridgeport Hospital
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Ganim Backs Elderly Housing/Senior Center For North End, Against Storage Facility
The North End shouted and Mayor Joe Ganim heard the voices. Following last week’s neighborhood confluence against a developer’s proposal to transform the shuttered Stop
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In Bridgeport, Lamont Announces $600 Million Affordable Housing Investment, Assistance For First-Time Homebuyers
Governor Ned Lamont On Thursday was joined by Mayor Joe Ganim, one of his election-year opponents State Senator Marilyn Moore, chair of the Housing Committee,
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It’s Time To Take Charge: The Politics Of Tighty-Whities Reveals Ganim’s Flaccidity
On Valentine’s Day in the North End there was no love for developer Hugh Scott who wants to transform the shuttered former Stop & Shop
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