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Can opportunity zones revive struggling neighborhoods?
A large self-storage building under construction last winter in a New London Opportunity Zone. Officials say it will add property tax revenue but not many jobs. | photo by: Tom Condon
In early September, Brian Marois, a Republican on Manchester’s board of directors its governing body proposed a redevelopment project for a vacant school building, saying it was ideal for attracting private investment because it sat in one of the town’s two Opportunity Zones.
The idea was rejected by the board’s Democratic majority for other reasons, according to the Hartford Courant, but Marois did bring up a program that’s been somewhat forgotten in the pandemic, at least until President Donald Trump claimed it during the campaign as one of the ways he aided the Black community.