FORMER EARL M. WITT
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
located at 20 Hyde Park Road, Stafford, Connecticut
The Town of Stafford is working to prepare the former Witt School located at 20 Hyde Park Road in Stafford for adaptive reuse or other creative redevelopment options. In early October, a Request for Interest (RFI) was published, seeking ideas and/or expressions of interest ("Letters of Interest") from persons or companies who recognize the unique opportunity to breathe new life into this building located in Hyde Park and close to the Central Business District. The RFI received no responses from private entities.
In the time since, the Town has worked in conjunction with the Technical Assistance Program for Brownfields/Connecticut Brownfields Initiative through the UConn Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. Together, a community grant narrative has been created, proposing the former Witt site as a recreational (retaining gym and commercial kitchen, among other spaces) and agricultural hub with indoor/outdoor dining, cooperative/mix-use space, and entertainment areas. The second floor is proposed as senior/affordable/market rate housingng. The narrative lends itself as a potential solution to alleviating the Downtown area as a USDA Food Desert, missing recreational amenities indicated by town survey results, fair housing opportunities, and redeveloping areas of existing infrastructure
Public Notice for EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant
To view the public notice, posted November 15, 2021, in the Town of Stafford Clerk's Office, please visit: http://records.staffordct.org//files/2021/SBAB/11-22-Public%20Notice.pdf
To learn more about the EPA’s Brownfields Program, visit www.epa.gov/brownfields
FORMER WITT SCHOOL SITE
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