Items Tagged ‘Connecticut’
Georgetown Green Plans To Buy The G&B Mill Site
Synopsis:
The outlook appears promising for the redevelopment of the former Gilbert & Bennett wire mill now that a new redeveloper has agreed to purchase the site. Georgetown Green plans to close on the purchase from Georgetown Land Development Company in June 2010. Callen Cooper, CEO of Georgetown Green, sees the G&B mill as the perfect combination for transit-oriented development, green and clean technology, and affordable and senior housing. The 2004 master plan for the site, born out of a collaboration between the town, neighboring towns, state and federal officials, will continue to be honored under the new owners. The plan calls for adapting the 55-acre site for housing, office, retail, performing arts space, offices for the Weir Farm Historic Site, as well as a new railroad station. Housing will include single-family homes, townhouses, condominiums, affordable and senior housing. While adaptive reuse will be a focal point of the project, it will be used only where feasible.
More details about the project are available here.
Just Imagine: A Dream For The Capitol Theater
Synopsis:
Nadine Baker makes a passionate call to (re)found a nonprofit with the intent to raise funds to reuse the old Capitol Theater in New London, Connecticut. The theater originally closed down in the 1970s and has sat vacant and deteriorating, with renovation and reuse plans coming and going. The latest plan to reopen the building as a theater again have fallen through as the developer has lost funding. Baker sees this as an opportunity to restart what she and others attempted back in 1995. The vision is to renovate the building into a visitors center, a place to commemorate the memory of the community. Baker presents a wonder vision and while she also states that this will of course cost money, it will cost more money the longer the building stay vacant and falls apart. New London has the opportunity (again) to establish this historical building as a gem of the community, one that will attract locals and visitors.