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Naugatuck Valley Community College, which has a satellite campus in the city, will get $2 million for instruction, research and laboratory equipment. Western Connecticut State University, which has a campus in Danbury, will have a piece of the $5 million that has been allocated for improvements along with its sister institutions, Central, Eastern, and Southern State Universities.
“Today we launched a wide-variety of projects that reach many portions of our state – it’s all part of a long-term revitalization strategy. The world is changing, and we need to adapt with it,” Malloy said.
Making “strategic investments” is central, the governor said, to ensuring the state’s “our competitiveness in long-term.”
The highlights of the investment package are:
- Major economic development initiatives include moving Future Health Care from New York to Bridgeport and expanding AdChem in Manchester.
- New Haven: The revitalization of the Q House and remediation of the former Connecticut Department of Transportation bus garage site.
- The state’s Small Business Express initiative, which helps more than 1,500 companies to grow, will see an infusion of $10 million to further expand jobs.
- The Manufacturing Innovation Fund will get a $5 million shot in the arm.
- Funding for brownfields – turning eyesores into livable, workable spaces to boost local economies – will get $12.5 million.
- Transportation and infrastructure: $17.5 million for work on the Danbury Branch Line for Norwalk; $30 million in Town Aid Road grants; $68.9 million for state road resurfacing; and $7 million for recreational trails across the state.
- Schools in Alliance Districts will see $28.5 million earmarked for the improvement of educational outcomes.
- Housing – critical to economic growth – will have nearly $78 million earmarked for projects.
- Central Connecticut will receive $69 million, Eastern Connecticut $38 million, Southern Connecticut $46.7 million and Western Connecticut $64.3 million.
- In addition, there are statewide investments totaling $359 million.
The money will, Malloy said, “help move the state forward, attract jobs, improve quality of life, and fund important community projects in every region of the state.”
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