The state received a $10 million federal grant earlier this year to go toward the station’s design and construction, but it won’t cover the entire cost of the nearly $150 million project. Much more effective than subsidizing any one development, would be making investments in infrastructure that add value to those properties, to make their private redevelopment more feasible," Kooris said. "We have about 850 acres of developable, former industrial, and oftentimes contaminated land in this portion of the city. Dannel Malloy’s initiative to have more frequent express and local service on the Metro-North line.ĭavid Kooris, director of Bridgeport's office of planning and economic development, said that the train station will make property within walking distance or a transit connection more viable for private redevelopment. “In fact, it’s a very competitive market for transit-oriented development in New Jersey.”Īnd Bernick said the city’s plan to build a second station keyed in nicely with Gov. New Jersey has tremendous success with these types of developments,” Bernick said. It’s not a new thing for the rest of the country. So why should the East Side's economic revitalization center around a train station? Bernick said it’s part of a development trend in the northeast. “The opportunity is the highest for development here, but the need is also the highest,” Murphy said. WNPR Down the street from the site of the planned site for the Barnum Station in Bridgeport. Chris Murphy cited earlier this year when voicing support for the project. The average income of East Bridgeport is $10,000 less than the city as a whole, and 33 percent of the people who live in the neighborhood don’t have a car - statistics U.S. “It’s a form of development for the area,” said Griffiths as she waited at a bus stop next to the future Barnum station site. The transportation network is good enough, said Winsome Griffiths, who’s lived in the neighborhood for ten years. In the neighborhood itself, it’s not the potential commuting connection that stirs the most excitement - it’s the businesses that could sprout up around the station. Barnum, would provide Amtrak and Metro-North express service. And maybe the Barnum location is a good one, but I don’t think we can automatically assume that if we build a station, suddenly there will be an influx of developers with offices, and apartments, and mixed-use buildings that will follow,” Cameron said. “We do need more service, more stations, certainly more parking to get people on to the trains. Not everyone thinks a train station should be the main catalyst for development in the East Side of Bridgeport.
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