I assume the post creator realizes that the two photos are not of the same area of main street, correct?

Agree with " confused " above. Main street itself has great potential.
But then again when you think about it, in order to get to the nicer image showing the Bye-Gone days of Ansonia many visitors do have to drive by the scariest sight directly connected by walk or car to Ansonia's town center.
Now I'm confused between two good points but in reality we should be keeping our house clean.
At least that is the goal behind Blight Zoning Laws we can assume.
MMmmm, could pose a double-standard between homes and abandoned industries.

While I am not sure why the OP posted two different images except to show a old pleasant looking Downtown Ansonia compared to PART of modern day downtown Ansonia.

The bottom line is ALL the Farrell buildings and ALL the Ansonia Copper and Brass buildings MUST BE TORN DOWN NOW. Take the buildings, get federal funds to clean up the mess and create aces of open land if you need to. Just get that end of Main Street CLEAR and then ask developers to come up with ideas for that space.

Ansonia is clearly eligible for assistance in cleaning up those sites... why years go by without those buildings touched escapes me.

SAD Ansonia seems to have such an balance of shops dotted along main street. The southern stretch contains churches and non profit violence and mental heath agencies while the northern stretch closest to the industrial blight contains nicer resturants...etc....
Should it be the other way around?

I thought not to long ago that end of main street was given a sizeable chunk of money to knock down and clean up some of that area to make it look more presentable.I am not certain of the amount im sure if you look it up it should be listed under some minutes or maybe in an article from the newspaper ct post nhregister or the valley inde. I thought it was supposed to be cleaned so many feet in from the road in towards tge buildings all of which we agree should be knocked down and cleaned up but I have not seen any cleanup as i read about from tge srreet in toward tge buildings. I am also hopeful any condos or apartments built have age restrictions on them as we def dont need another low income housing section built on main street its only my opinion but i dont think we need any housing on main street. I think the owners of the buildings need to be held responsible to cleanup knock em down or what ever needs to be done to have this area cleaned and look presentable or maybe they should try to sell the property to a developer willing to work with and for the good of the town..

DeFaeo,

You are so right. It is odd that while Antonio's and Koi sit closer to Big Y that the upscale restaurants would be cropping up on the run down, industrial end of the Main. I was amazed Crave survived (glad it did!) and hope the same is true of others but Main Street seems to have shops, then stretches of vacant storefronts of buildings in need of repair, then more shops.. it's really chopped up.

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