This will be of little interest to those in the western part of the state, well, save for what the state did with all of our taxes, but this was a nice, lower-middle class neighborhood of well-maintained homes and yards. I know the area as it is just a seven mile drive from my house. The comments in the above article from The Day are priceless.
I'll let someone more pungent than I frame this turn of events:
Connecticut taxpayers have thus been soaked tens of millions of dollars, not just for nothing, but for making things worse — for transforming a nice local neighborhood into a dump.