Today in 1943, only a few years after a series of catastrophic floods devastated dozens of towns across Connecticut, the Army Corps of Engineers presented Congress with a comprehensive plan to implement flood control projects along the entire Connecticut River valley. Attached to their proposal was an price tag of 56 million dollars —…
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April 23: Connecticut’s Worst Construction Disaster: L’Ambience Plaza
In early 1987, excitement was building in Bridgeport for “L’Ambience Plaza,” a new luxury apartment complex slated to open later that year on the corner of Washington Avenue and Coleman Street. Those dreams of downtown revitalization were suddenly dashed, however, in the afternoon hours of April 23. At 1:36pm, construction crews had just hoisted…