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Monday, August 28, 2006

Jesse quoted in Norwich Bulletin 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 8/28/2006 01:56:00 PM

So I'm filtering through my legislators' emails, and I read the newsletter from the anti-sprawl group 1000 Friends of Connecticut. Guess who the interviewee is! No ancient literature quotes get in here, although I'm sure he tried.


http://hartford.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=hartford&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.norwichbulletin.com%2F
Utopia's upscale proposal could hurt poor, some fear By RAY HACKETT Norwich Bulletin

NORWICH -- Jesse Czaja moved to Norwich three months ago, taking a job with Mohegan Sun.
"I like it here," he said this past week while visiting City Perk coffee shop with his mother, who was visiting from Massachusetts. "And I'm looking forward to all that's planned and what might happen around here."
What's planned are two major developments that would change the face of Norwich and the surrounding community. Utopia developer Joseph Gentile has plans to construct a $1.6 billion movie studio, school, theme park and resort on the site of the former Norwich State Hospital property in Preston, with dormitories and a high-end hotel on Norwich's 63-acre adjacent property.
Gentile also has proposed a $500 million redevelopment of Norwich's harborfront that includes twin, 37-story towers at the marina, an upscale theme park on Hollyhock Island, a retail plaza above Chelsea Harbor Drive -- and 100 high-end housing units on the site now occupied by the Norwich Police Department.
"It will be a mess when it's under construction," Czaja said, "but I don't see it having any kind of adverse effect."
Not everyone is so sure. Some worry the push toward higher-end housing and huge developments could result in the gentrification of the city, converting Norwich into a more affluent middle-class area, increasing property values and displacing the poor.
"That's already happening," said longtime downtown businessman Harry Lawson. "The city already seems to be moving in that direction, so the timing of this is just right. It seems like the city wants to move people out with higher rents and higher taxes."
Lawrence Yun, a senior economist with the National Association of Realtors, said Eastern Connecticut is experiencing many of the same problems larger cities feel. What's different is huge projects such as Gentile's aren't typically proposed in rural settings. The risk, in this case, is with the developer, Yun said, because residents can exercise control over the development -- depending on how politically active they want to be.
"Take a look at a city like San Francisco, where there are lots of regulations," Yun said. "That enables the city to manage the growth, giving residents more control over the lifestyle. The idea is if you build it, they will come. And if they come, they're going to drive up the rental prices, making it difficult for low-income and some middle-income families to stay."
Norwich Human Services Director Beverly Goulet said a better example might be Atlantic City, where the waterfront was developed by casinos and the rest of the city suffered.
"What I want to see is something that benefits all of the residents," she said. "If it's done right, with all the checks and balances, everyone can be a winner. My concern is we're creating jobs that don't pay a living wage. And if the costs continue to climb, people are never going to climb up the ladder."
Norwich is considered one of the state's top 25 distressed municipalities, a distinction based on a number of statistics relating to income levels. At several city schools, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunches run as high as 70 percent.
"If we just allow a development like this to happen without also addressing these kinds of problems, we're going to be in trouble down the road," Goulet said. "We're not going to like where we live."
But Yun said these kinds of developments create jobs, something the Northeast has lagged well behind in compared to the rest of the nation.
"It is a double-edged sword," said economist Alissa DeJonge with the Connecticut Economic Research Center. "There definitely would be employment opportunities that would be available to residents. But, on the other hand, there's the cost issue. Land values and housing costs could be a problem."
DeJonge said those issues are as critical for the developer as for residents, a reason why the entire community needs to be involved in the discussion and planning stages.
"If the low-income and middle-income population is driven out, you lose your worker population," she said. "If there's a way to incorporate that segment of the population into the planning, you're likely to have much more success."
Heather Ford, owner of Lott Realty, said the Utopia proposals will affect property values and put more strain on those already struggling to make ends meet. But she believes the income generated from these projects would lower taxes overall for property owners, and provide more revenue to the city to address infrastructure concerns.
"This is really the only type of change that we have any control over," she said. "Right now, we're dealing with the changes brought by the casinos, with no control. I think, in the long run, there's a lot of benefits for residents that will come with these plans."
But Joe Manfredi, owner of Billy Wilson's Ageing Still on Broadway, isn't sure yet. He is concerned about what it will mean for the small businessman downtown. He said his business already is falling because of the redevelopment of the Wauregan and its impact on traffic.
"The whole scope of the (Utopia) project is too hard to comprehend," Manfredi said. "There are certain phases of the project I'm excited about. But I'm also concerned that major projects like this get pushed forward without any thought being given to what's in the best interest of people already in the downtown."

2 comments

Thanks for noticing, i forgot to tell anyone. I should have mentioned it to my dad, he normally gets the Sunday Bulletin.

I live in a small town with a newspaper, it was just a matter of time before i was in it. But sunday, front page that was cool.

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