Manresa Island project a model for shuttered power plants?

Manresa Island project a model for shuttered power plants?

While out kayaking one afternoon near the entrance to Norwalk Harbor, Austin and Allison McChord found themselves drawn to the boxy, blue frame of the decommissioned power plant that has stood for decades on a prominent point overlooking Long Island Sound. Over the last few years, the couple has invested tens of millions of dollars into a plan that would develop the site on Manresa Island into a public park centered around the old Norwalk Harbor…