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Per our personal Email also sent to Moustapha Diakate for Ansonia’s needed repair:
Since this linked article tells the story of a broken city in need of desperate repair:
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/06/10/Ansonia_Will_Rebuild_Public_Housing_Units/
we cannot help to notice within the same neighborhood of the former Olsen Drive apartments, factories along North Main and East Main Streets in Ansonia can also be redeveloped and purchased by the (HUD) Federal Government we were told.
Moustapha Diakate of Washington Management, owner of these troubled buildings, would you be willing to listen to your brothers and sisters to expand a viable HUD campus within this sector of Ansonia to repair and fill the vacant & blighted property conditions?
8 Comments
Fred Sampson (Guest)
Great idea *sarcasm*
Do you have any idea how much money it will cost to clean and re-develop those old, barren factories? And if they were made into affordable housing units, do you plan to send the children who would live here to the already over-burdened school system?
Q.Gibbs (Guest)
My boyfriend tells me the opportunities are much better in Ansonia then in the Bridgeport area. THAT SITUATION NEEDS FIXIN.
A friend at HUDs tells me keeping the current condition of those building is a magnet for more affordable hsing..
Q.Gibbs (Guest)
HUD and our president is monitoring the education benefit you are paying very closely. We do not take it for granted and we thank you for your support. We all have a dream to concur the impossible. Many of my family and friends encompass this entire town with more arriving with HUD approval soon. I'm just saying, even if you do not fix up the factory conditions in the area you and I have nothing to lose. Our benefit grows because of the towns condition acting like a HUD attractant while you the tax payer unfortunately live with our benefits and both bad ends of the stick
Planner (Registered User)
Fred Sampson (Guest)
Michael Raymond (Registered User)
I am familiar with this but lost by the thread here. "Yanking of chains" really may be fun for the person bored doing it, but really diminishes this site.
I'm afraid we need to look back at the Della Volpe administration that SIGNED AN AGREEEMNT to replace the Olsen development if allowed to take it down and then tried to violate it.
HUD is simply enforcing an agreement Ansonia made years ago. Why Ansonia made such an agreement and why voters were not more engaged in the discussion at that times escapes me, but the ship has sailed as they say.
Closed special treatment (Registered User)
Ryan Healey (Registered User)
There is no viable use for ANY of the abandoned factory that plague downtown Ansonia. None. It would cost more to gut and turn them into something that demolish and build a new structure. That is why the developer went bankrupt that promised to renovate some of them. No way someone will fund that type of projects.
If only Ansonia could take ownership of the ones it doesn't already own and apply for Federal or State funds to take them down. Main Street would be so much more attractive.