Eligible projects include capital improvements, such as those focused on affordable housing, brownfield remediation, infrastructure, and public facilities, as well as small business support programs that provide revolving loans, gap financing, microloans, or start-up financing. Among those selected to receive funding are renovation of a Boys and Girls Club and rehabilitation of existing housing stock in Hartford, pedestrian safety improvements to Route 72 in Bristol, support for a Downtown Streetscape project in Manchester, rehabilitation of Long Warf in New Haven, a new Community and Recreation Center in New London, construction of a makerspace in Danbury, renovation of the South End Community Center in Stratford, construction of a mixed-income, mixed-use, transit-oriented development in Norwalk, and construction of 39 new affordable, supportive housing units in Stamford.
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