Can you start construction with $24 million financed and then seek the rest of the loot? That’s the predicament facing the Ganim administration as bids
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Category: Development and Zoning
City Seeks Control Of Blighted South End Property
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The city is aiming, either through friendly negotiation or more aggressive means like eminent domain, to get control of a
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City Council To Act On Affordable Housing Plan
UPDATE: Item was sent back to committee for further review and possible edits. It was apparently placed on full council agenda prematurely. Original story: The
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City Zoners Reject Storage Facility Proposal For North End
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: With backing from the mayor, other local elected officials and the city’s economic development department, North End residents Monday convinced
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Awaiting A Decision, North End Neighbors Protest Housing Plan
Opponents to a planned 177-units of market rate housing gathered on Sunday at the site of the former Testo’s Restaurant in the heart of the
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Luxury Units At Steelpointe Harbor Cleared For Groundbreaking
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: After months of delays caused by environmental issues, the developers of the luxury apartment project at the Steelpointe site are now
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Seaside Gateway Trail Connects With City And Olmsted
When P.T. Barnum and other residents donated the initial land to become Bridgeport’s waterfront jewel Seaside Park, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of Central
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Green Transformation – The East End Goes From Mount Trashmore To Mount Growmore
As a candidate for mayor in 1991, Joe Ganim promised to clean up the mountainous demolition-debris disgrace Mount Trashmore in the East End that wreaked
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