Brownfields Project Examples
Stonington Commons
Stonington, CT
Client: Stonington Water
Street Associates
Description: For
more than a
decade a variety of developers proposed plans for the redevelopment of
this vacant five-acre mill complex with dramatic views of Stonington
Harbor. This award winning project has had an enormous postitive
impact by transforming an abandoned, waterfront, Brownfield historic
factory site into a landmark,$40 million mixed-use community of
condominiums, single-family homes and commercial space. In
addition, the project has provided public access along the waterfront
for the first time in 200 years. The oldest structure within the
complex was a foundry used to produce cannonballs during the War of
1812. Later, the complex housed factories to manufacture
horseshoe nails, rifles for the Civil War, textile machines, gun
turrets, submarine parts for World War II, and finally molds for
plastic bottle manufacturers. By the time the facility closed in
1990, the long-term factory use created mismatched architectural styles
and a collection of environmental issues including petroleum and heavy
metal contaminated soils. The buildings that were retained on
site required proper care and preservation of historic character in
keeping with the National Register of Historic Places. The final
obstacle was in 2003 when a massive fire engulfed and destroyed most of
the complex just after project crews had finished environmental
remediation work. The project's goal of successfully transforming
a Brownfield site and preserving what remaines of the historically
important factory structures was achieved while facing considerable
obstacles.
Role: Triton
oversaw the
environmental cleanup, performed soil and groundwater monitoring,
desighned and permitted the marina as well as 800 foot-long publicly
accessible waterfront walkway, and consulted during the property's
(including Transfer Act Analysis).
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