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Business growth highlights annual NEDC meeting
NAUGATUCK — Some small businesses are flocking to the borough, thanks to the efforts of the Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation. Noel Rutherford, sales engineer at Vitek Research Corporation, said the NEDC played a crucial role in the company’s recent move to the borough’s industrial park. “We’re glad to have moved up here. All (the... »
NEDC meeting rescheduled
NAUGATUCK – The Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation has re-scheduled its annual meeting for Nov. 28 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Naugatuck Historical Society Museum, 195 Water Street. The original meeting was postponed due to the October snowstorm. The guest speaker will be Catherine Smith, commissioner of Department of Economic & Community Development.... »
Subdividing industrial park lots could equal more revenue for Naugatuck
With the recent demolition of the Peter Paul building, one of the last remnants of Naugatuck’s industrial past, borough leaders are looking for other ways to keep Naugatuck’s manufacturing tradition alive. The Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) is recommending the revision of zoning regulations to allow some of the larger lots in the Naugatuck... »
Building 25 still stuck in limbo
NAUGATUCK — The fate of the last remaining building from the Uniroyal Rubber Company is still up in the air. The Maple St. building known as Building 25 still sits empty and neglected despite efforts by the Naugatuck Historical Society to raise money for its restoration. Threatened to be torn down during Mayor Tim... »
Borough development plan approved
WATERUBRY — Naugatuck’s Municipal Development Plan took another step toward implementation Tuesday when the Regional Planning Commission of the Council of Governments of the Central Naugatuck Valley unanimously voted it to be in accord with the plan of development for the region. A presentation was given to the commission by Dick Herald and Dave... »
NEDC hopeful about economic future
NAUGATUCK — Thursday’s news from the U.S. Department of Labor that unemployment in Connecticut had jumped from 8.4 to 8.8 percent lent an air of irony to that night’s Sixth Annual Business Meeting of the Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation (NEDC), where officials acknowledged the challenging economy but expressed hope about the future. Among orderly... »
Conroy, NEDC solicit opinions of Parcel C
NAUGATUCK— The Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation and Conroy Development officials didn’t quite get what they were looking for Monday night when they held a public forum with St. Mary’s Health System regarding their potential construction of an outpatient health facility at Parcel C, the 2.2-acre borough-owned site across from Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe. The forum... »
Mezzo addresses business owners at luncheon
NAUGATUCK — Mayor Bob Mezzo assured the Chamber of Commerce and business owners Tuesday that the Renaissance Place development project is “alive and well,” quipping that the project has been hampered by “that little problem of the collapse of the local economy.” Mezzo spoke at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Leary’s Crystal Room,... »






