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(rshsdepot) Torrington, CT
From The Register Citizen.
Original article at:
http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2009/01/18/news/doc49730c7d18afa5770
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Bernie Wagenblast
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:29 AM EST
By Register Citizen Staff
Anyone have half a million dollars to save an historic structure and
significantly improve the view from our Register Citizen offices on Water
Street?
That's one estimate of the potential cost of saving the old train station
between The Register Citizen property and the Kelley Transit bus yard,
between Water and Church streets.
The station has looked like it was about to disintegrate for years, but two
glimmers of hope have arisen.
Tomasz Kalinowski, Monika Kalinowska and Chris Beyus have formed a group
called the Abandoned Buildings Fund Club that is targeting the old train
station as a possible restoration project.
And while the Torrington Development Corp.'s new plan for downtown basically
stops at the Trinity Episcopal Church, unlike the old plan that called for
the redevelopment of Water Street all the way up to and including The
Register Citizen property and Kelly property, the new plan does call for a
Greenway that would run along the river all the way from Coe Park to Water
Street, past the railroad station, and connecting to Christmas Village.
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