The NLDC lives on
“There were a lot of things that were hard to digest in this week’s news that Renaissance City Development Association (the much-hated New London Redevelopment Corp., with a new name) is considering building a parking garage in New London’s Fort Trumbull.
Of course the biggest pill people are being asked to swallow is that the garage would be built on property the NLDC took, unnecessarily it turns out, by eminent domain, now empty land where a fine neighborhood once stood.
All over the city this week you could hear people humming Joni Mitchell’s old folk song, “Big Yellow Taxi,” with lyrics that start out: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Alas, at least in Mitchell’s song, the dreaded development also included a “boutique, a pink hotel and a swinging hot spot.”
The NLDC, err Renaissance City, is only suggesting parking for Fort Trumbull.
The agency, which never built a single new building in all the years after it took away people’s homes, is proposing a $10 million parking garage, in part to accommodate workers at the nearby Electric Boat office towers.”
Collins, David. The Day 20 November 2013.