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With air travel gradually ramping up again following the COVID-19 pandemic, Bradley International Airport is turning its sights on another goal: establishing the Windsor Locks-based airfield as a Northeast cargo hub.
In 1978, cigar company Culbro Corp. completed a roughly 40,000-square-foot warehouse on a former tobacco field in East Granby, its first foray into industrial development. Culbro – which today is known as Indus Realty Trust – developed a 600-acre industrial park around that first building, spanning parts of East Granby and Windsor. Forty-four years later, Indus has nearly filled the park.
A new mixed-use development proposal could be a key component to Windsor’s burgeoning downtown that aims to offer the popular “live, work and play” concept, all in one central location, town officials said. The Planning and Zoning Commission last month approved preliminary design plans from the Sachdev Real Estate Development Group. Property owner Dr. Mohan Sachdev plans to build a mixed-use residential and retail complex on two vacant sites totaling 2.3 acres at 109-125 Poquonock Ave. It’s a former brownfield auto site that has been remediated.
Windsor's town board unanimously approved an incentive package to help attract a commercial indoor hydroponic farming operation Gotham Greens.