Generally, developers get dedicated lines of credit for those types of projects that are essentially shorter mortgages. So as long as they had the funding secured before the rate hike, and the line is still open, interest rate isn't too much of an issue.

>The only other counties to see growth through the 2010s were Hartford County and New Haven County.

I really don't have the time to go granular but Hartford and New Britain and it's immediate inner ring grew as the hinterland shrunk... Same thing with New Haven/West Have and Waterbury. CT's population is concentrating in areas where neighborhood density was already some of the highest in the nation.

> We really need to do a better job building up / redeveloping around our stations

100% in agreement. The fact there's any surface or structured parking right at the station is beyond a waste of tax rolls and economic development.

Norwalk has the Merritt 7 complex which has the main campus of Datto (huge homegrown corp) and to my knowledge still the day-to-day c suite offices of GE that will probably stay there for quite a while, if not indefinitely due to the failure of the Boston campus.

Bridgeport... ho boy yeah. There are a few issues there from no pedestrian path to the east side (which could expand the fabric of the CBD by a huge margin) and a serious lack of Class A office suites/office apartments. Interest in building new Class A has been tepid, largely because propriety buildings have "vacancy" (cough, Bridgeport Centre) but aren't really for rent which throws off many potential developers on first glance, as does the reputation that Bridgeport politics has/had/will have. That said, the housing market in the CBD is still white hot, with any rentals getting interest within weeks of coming online. There's too much parking, too many property owners that are depreciation harvesting, and too many poor uses like the Bob's strip mall. So I'd say the CBD is chugging along, not booming, but also not quite anemic.

> exit 27 in Bridgeport comes to mind.

To be completely fair, the idea was that Super 7 would help connect to i84 and ultimately i90 in Western Mass which would have relieved some of the truck freight traffic. Also the thought that truck based freight in general would get to the usage it has is a huge point for bottlenecking.

> I would also theorize that the increase of remote work has resulted in most white-collar employees in NYC only being in the office 1-3 days a week and working the other 2 days from home.

The thing is that NYC bound commuters wasn't as large of a pool than the MTA thought when they were redesigning the scheduling post COVID. Once you see it in this light the New Haven line passenger numbers makes far more sense and the solution far easier.

> This is very concerning, given that Fairfield County and Stamford at this point are very important economic hubs for CT, practically the only part of the state growing, and far more desirable for new employers and employees alike. > >

All of the major urban centers in CT grew. It's the exurbs that are depopulating at a fairly massive clip.

>If we can’t solve our traffic issues (likely via public transport), our economy won’t improve.

Absolutely agree

> southern CT is basically a big suburb of NYC, and so all of the traffic is tied to people commuting.

The issue that it isn't, people assume it is and the infrastructure treats it as such instead of the third largest concentration of commerce in the US that's actually fairly self contained economically, socially, and certainly politically. Edit: numbers coming in have alluded that the god awful failure of i95 and the other network is that people that were using the train for intrastate travel haven't been because the MTA focused on CT-NYC commuters which for decades hasn't been the bulk of trip generation.

Bridgeport-Norwalk-Stamford is by it's own measure a massive economic centre with over 600k high paying jobs whereas only 40kish in FFC leave the state for employment (with about 25k inflow from NYS).

Exactly

Posting this with a few thoughts:

A) CTGOP already made this pitch state-wide and did abysmally.

B) Just a continuation of trying to patch up poor decisions over the decades of PNZ boards.

C) The entire premise is just silly because already existing old stock "naturally affordable" is already calculated in the schedule, just not at a 1:1 ratio to minimum threshold.

On paper it's "part time" but for the longest time it's effectively been a full time, I do believe there's additional pay for work rendered on Committees and Sub-Committees.

>pitbulls are the most common dogs that kill or maim people.

The real numbers of this are very wonky. If you say "large terriers" are the most common dogs to kill or maim that's be more true... But they're the most populous dog group in the US. Statistically mastiffs, great Danes, and huskies are the most dangerous vis-a-vis their population.

"Pitbull" is a nebulous breed, and often confused with other non-terrier breeds.

It was never. Locks have existed for pretty much as long as doors have

That's the one

Very interesting, thank you!

I'm really not familiar with the recent Schaghticoke on-goings but I do remember some drama about that.

If you really want a wild, wild ride the Golden Hill tribe in Bridgeport is a great encapsulation on a whole lot of threads about Native history. Granted though there's a lot of tragedy in that too.

Kent, CT although last I heard the corporation does have holdings in NY but I'm in no way aware if its contiguous to what else they have or how big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians

A pretty good primer under the "Controversy" section... I did a very deep dive years ago on the Ramapo and seems pretty much in line with what I remember but I'd have to comb through that section with the research notes I have somewhere here. I should say there is a slight difference between the northern (NYS/CT) Lenape - Ramapo and the southern (NJ/PA)... but the article gives an idea why adding the Munsee is not totally solid.

IIRC the Ramapo in Kent are still trying to get only state recognition with the property they've accumulated past the green. I should say in honest that family lore is that our original English ancestry intermarried with the CT Ramapo for a whole lot of generations and honestly going through the existing records I could it seemed plausible if not extremely likely.

There do seem to be outposts of Algonquin settlers in the New England/NYS area that probably arrived only a century or two before European contact... But the numbers may be fairly small and likely would've had more political contact with surrounding tribes.

"Munsee Lenape"? Oh boy that'll rile up the usual suspects 😂😂

For those unaware: The lumping of Munsee and Lenape is, frankly, super controversial and may be post contact mythology/whisper campaign to delegitimize Lenape claims by some states and other tribes. Or could be absolutely true. Or somewhere in between. Honestly worth a read into it, it gets amazingly petty.

People that watched too much mob movies/tv or believed some of the tall tales that some of the higher ups of the families pushed in the mainstream media to seem like they were more influential than they were for soft influence or their own egos.

Hasn't been true since the 90s. Human capital is crucial and isn't cheap.

Lmao, try how close we are to Providence.

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