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Main Street wanting to do small proj- ects or big developers doing 140 apart- ment units.”
That said, other areas of town have seen some progress, too — even in the industrial sector, still reeling from Lego’s departure.
“We’ve had some really good conver- sations with the logistics industry, and we’re hopeful to see some projects that might be coming out of that relatively soon,” Marcavitch said, adding that one property owner is working with Martin Brower, the primary trucking company
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He noted that the project will include some publicly accessible water- front walking space, and HGRE will also seek to acquire an additional par- cel at Main and North River streets, currently owned by Eversource, for the project’s second phase.
“The intention from the developer
is to be able to use that area where the Eversource property is to build a water- front restaurant location,” he said. “You get off the train, you can get something to eat, you can go to your apartment, whatever it might be, and that trail then would continue to Main Street,
at least. There’s also been a long-term vision to have some sort of a pier that goes out into the river. That’s part of my job — to see if we can find funding for that and find a way to do it.”
“If you can encourage somebody to come here, that’s great, but I don’t want you just getting on a train and disappearing every day. At the end of the day, I want youtogotoadogpark,I want you to go hike a trail, whatever it is, and stay in Enfield as much as possible.”
Meanwhile, the town has received $1 million in federal funding to be used for streetscaping, from the train station up Main Street. “That’s going to trees, sidewalks, lighting, parking, striping, and making the road a bit more narrow,” Marcavitch explained.
“We’ve also been having some con- versations about parking issues,” he went on. “We’ve had conversations with a group that’s being formed, a nonprofit group that would function as a Main Street program. They’re still in development.”
Taken together, Thompsonville def- initely has some buzz. “It’s been said for 50 years now that Thompsonville is going to be revitalized, but I feel like some positive movement is hap- pening. We’re actually putting those plans into action.”
Further Down the Track
That action has brought a sense of momentum to town, Marcavitch said, even if not everyone is feeling it yet.
“I feel there is a sense in Enfield that people don’t believe it until they start to see it. And nobody is seeing that shovel in the ground. But there are some people who know it’s hap- pening, and they want to get ahead of it — whether it’s small developers on
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Enfield Square has been in decline for many years, but a planned mixed- use development there has city officials excited.
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