

Millions in state and federal grants will resurrect Waterbury district

WATERBURY – The $1.5 million demolition of the Anaconda American Brass building is just a drop in the bucket of resources Mayor Neil M. O’Leary is devoting to redevelopment of the roughly 70-acre Freight Street District. Under O’Leary, the city has received tens-of-millions of dollars in state and federal grant dollars to upgrade transportation and […]


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  1. Keep pouring taxpayer money into a city most folks avoid due to the violence and decay. Yup that’s what you get in a dem/socialist/sanctuary state. What they have done to this once magnificent state is truly criminal.

  2. The city of waterbury has spent millions in rebuilding freight street, creating a greenway connection to downtown with new sidewalks , landscaping and a bike path. The first growing season, the landscaping along the street looked great , the plants were in full bloom, creating a landscaped road and bike path , with a four to five foot green barrier of bushes , ornamental grasses , trees ,perennial flowers such as day Lilly’s and black eyed Susan’s. I’m sure the landscape architect choose those kinds of plants to create a natural barrier between the road, bike path and walkway. The roadway and bike path , greenway looked great.
    Not sure who is maintaining the greenway ,but they have basically destroyed it , this season when the ornamental grasses were in full bloom , they cut them to the ground, the other shrubs have been cut so low , they are killing them off, same with the perennials flowers.
    The Mayor’s office , this newspaper , needs to look into what happened , Look at the cost of how much was spent on the landscaping part of the project ,and what kind of plants should be growing there, and what is actually there now . Why spend thousands of dollars on landscaping when whoever is maintaining it has no clue on how to care for the types of plants that are growing there. Good luck trying to market the area to developers when the city can’t even maintain a newly build greenway .
    I have no problem using tax dollars to improve and develop the city , but when I see things like this happening , lack of maintenance or not knowing how to maintain, why bother.

  3. So, which sit? Either this Mayor is letting the D’Addarios off without paying the more than one million dollars they owe the City for back taxes, or this Mayor is “devoting” 1.5 million. Which is it, Michael Puffer? You wrote two articles that were published in the Rep-Am on the topic today saying two different things. So, which is it?

    Here’s a news flash: This Mayor has no money to give anyone. If he did his job and provided the sort of leadership required to stand up to really tough people like the D’Addarios and collect what is owed Waterbury instead of collaborating with tax scofflaws then he might deserve to crow. But someone really needs to call him out on this one.

    But it is dishonest to print the sort of double-talk printed here-in today. But I guess that’s all we deserve.

  4. So HE lets Daddario off the hook for $1Million in taxes, then has taxpayers pay to demolish the building and this is a WIN? Does the Rep-Am know where state funding comes from? It doesn’t fall from the sky, Dan Lamont doesn’t magically make it appear, It comes from TAXPAYERS pockets.

    The Daddario family lives in a mansion, while working class people pay to clean up their mess, the city leaders do NOTHING, yet this article brags hoe great mayor is…. Keep electing democrats

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