The Naugatuck train station is a small plexiglass box with a single bench, a lone dot in the expanse of the concrete parking lot, just across from the loading dock of a post office. It’s exactly the type of car-centric development that David Kooris, executive director of the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority, wants to avoid.

A long-vacant, 145,656-square-foot office complex in downtown Waterbury could be transformed into more than 100 apartments thanks to new state programs that incentivize multifamily development.

We are honored to lead this work and further create access to quality housing in Connecticut. We have partnered with 12 municipalities so far–and we’re just getting started!

Connecticut’s Municipal Redevelopment Authority now has a new name and game plan to boost housing near public transit hubs across the state.

Waterbury could be among the first Connecticut communities lined up for a piece of a new $60 million state-funded program aimed at incentivizing dense multifamily development in urban centers and near transportation hubs.

The borough is the first town statewide to join the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority, newly established to help municipalities with transit oriented development.

A new quasi-public state agency armed with $60 million to spur multifamily housing in Connecticut downtowns and around mass transit hubs will begin to fund its first projects this year.