New Brownfield Study to Aid Middletown Community Campus Redevelopment

The City of Middletown recently won a combined $300,000 state grant for a brownfield opportunity study to further spur redevelopment on the Community Campus. Once home to an anchoring state psychiatric hospital, the campus has largely been abandoned since 2006 due to statewide consolidation, except for a few remaining institutions. The first wave of private investments poured into the 230-acre campus years ago when an academy and college moved in, followed by a medical center and an elementary school. Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano hopes the study will further propel the momentum. “This is basically our last large area for potential redevelopment,” Mr. DeStefano told The Epoch Times. “The city has only 5 square miles with a 30,000-plus population—we have pretty heavy density, so this is our last major redevelopment opportunity.”...