Towns across Connecticut are embracing the “live, work, play” development concept, and working to create vibrant and all-inclusive central village districts.
State agencies like the departments of Transportation and Economic and Community Development are supporting similar transit-oriented development strategies and offering towns grants for sidewalks, road improvements, traffic studies, safety measures, brownfield remediation and consultants.
Great Pond Village, the massive multi-use project in Windsor planned for more than a decade, is advancing to the second stage as builders prepare to erect a 750,000-square-foot warehouse an a network of new roads and utilities.
Adam Winstanley said breaking ground Tuesday on the Great Pond Industrial project in Windsor was a very proud moment more than 15 years in the making.
The 750,000-square-foot industrial warehouse development is part of Winstanley Enterprises’ massive 650-acre Great Pond Village project that, when completed, will contain a variety of housing units, from apartments to townhouses and small starter homes for rent, along with retail storefronts, warehouses, bioscience and data centers with a hefty dose of open space peppered in.