The State Bond Commission authorized more than $25 million in aid for various New Haven projects Friday — allowing for everything from repairs to the Floyd Little Athletic Center to renovations to Adult Ed’s future home on Bassett Street to design work for a new childcare campus at the former Cine‑4 movie theater.
Those grants come courtesy of approvals by the State Bond Commission on Friday. Some were part of the bond commission’s latest regular agenda; others were part of the state’s Community Investment Fund.
“I am gratified that we will see over $25 million in state bonding funding for New Haven, a testament to our commitment to housing, education, assistance to non-profit social service providers, and community development,” state Senate President Martin Looney is quoted as saying in a New Haven delegation press release.
The New Haven project funding announced on Friday includes:
• $8,769,417 for “alterations and improvements” to the Floyd Little Athletic Center.
• $7.5 million for “alterations and improvements” for the new Adult Education building at 188 Bassett St.
• $2.75 million for Continuum of Care’s “Ella-Blake Project,” allowing the local homelessness services and supportive housing nonprofit to purchase its two facilities at 977 Ella T. Grasso Blvd. and 163 Blake St. and thereby preserve, thereby allowing them to preserve 58 units of affordable housing.
• $2.648 million for various capital upgrades to Educational Center for the Arts’ school building on Audubon Street. The section of the bond commission agenda that describes this grant for ECA and for other schools across the state lists such capital upgrades as including roof repairs, boiler replacements, and HVAC upgrades.
• $900,000 for renovations to Christian Community Action’s ARISE Center, allowing the building to have “a training space, client meeting space, offices, kitchen/dining area, and house services such as food pantry and diaper bank.”
• $850,000 apiece for “debt repayment” for Amistad School and Elm City College Prep.
• $350,000 for the New Haven Museum’s planning for 325 Lighthouse Rd. and 114 Whitney Ave., allowing for community engagement and a “master plan and designs for renovations and upgrades for the museum’s two sites.”
• $350,000 for facility updates and improvements at the Community Resources for Justice for the Family Reentry Center of New Haven.
• $250,000 for the Friends Center for Children’s “Flint Street Family Campus,” supporting a planning grant for community engagement and design for a new childcare center at the site of the former Cine 4 movie theater.
• $250,000 for Haven’s Harvest’s “Phase 2 Planning,” allowing for planning towards community engagement and a feasibility student “of the intersection of its work and the needs of the community in the Fair Haven neighborhood.”
• $142,000 for a “glass pulverizer” for the Goodwill of New Haven.