Newburgh, N.Y. has a strong cadre of people working on revitalization — and a land bank that has proved a key tool in that effort. It’s a tool Connecticut cities are seeking to adopt as well.
Michael Puffer | Republican-American
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Crumbling buildings are left uncounted
The brownfield inventory maintained by the state lists 516 sites, but officials estimate there are actually “probably tens of thousands” of polluted sites that haven’t been counted.
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Cities left to deal with the shells of industry
One key to a better future for Connecticut’s cities could lie beneath the ugly scars from its industrial past, but the state the state doesn’t track number of jobs created or taxes generated after cleanup or even keep an inventory of its brownfield sites.