Stamford's master plan, taken together with the zoning regulations adopted for the South End redevelopment, makes it clear that full-service hotels with banquet or convention facilities are allowed downtown only, says Sandy Goldstein, the downtown district's longtime president.
Residents who attended the session voiced their mistrust of the city's intentions in the matter; a summary report of the session cited fears that the buildings would be sold and demolished to allow for power plant expansion or high-end redevelopment that would force out local people.
When officials in Sacramento ended local redevelopment agencies in 2011, tens of millions of dollars were still owed to cities.
However, amid the state budget crisis, state legislators ended the redevelopment program in 2011 and let those loans go unrepaid.
This is why the California legislature should reject Gov. Jerry Brown's call to end community redevelopment agencies and eliminate property tax dollars destined for CRAs.
The 8.3-square-mile no-frills, largely blue-collar borough is undergoing an unsettling postindustrial redevelopment, ending an era that began in the late 1870's when the Lehigh Valley Railroad built a storage and service yard for its trains that hauled Pennsylvania coal to New York City.
The announcement by the Capital City Economic Development Authority, which was created by the State General Assembly to lead Hartford's redevelopment, ended years of political indecision about what, exactly, to build and where.
Demand from such buyers also has spurred a wave of reinvestment and high-end speculative redevelopment, Mr. Eovino said.
To that end, the redevelopment of buildings in the 17-acre project, known as Mariposa, will incorporate ecologically advanced construction materials and practices, and a combination of geothermal and solar power will generate up to 60 percent of the development's energy.
The audit, which examined fiscal management practices in Cudahy over a two-year period ending in 2012, also ordered the city to return $22.7 million in redevelopment funds.
