#Fairfield Connecticut– Senator Murphy toured the Fairfield Metro Train Station on Tuesday along with First Selectman Michael Tetreau, State Senator Tony Hwang and other legislators.  Senator Murphy was observing the new mixed use development underway at the old Fitness Edge at the corner of Commerce and Black Rock Turnpike.  First Selectman Tetreau said he hopes the state will send some of the newly approved federal “Transit Oriented Development” (TOD) funding to the area.

When I asked the senator how Bridgeport’s proposed new Barnum Train Station won’t suffer from the lack of business development that Fairfield’s Metro Station did he said that these are never easy projects, but that there hasn’t been much development since the whole country went into catastrophic  recession.  First Selectman Tetreau said the difference is the Barnum Station is owned by different property owners.  Fairfield’s Metro Station is owned by “one owner doesn’t have all the cash to move forward from that standpoint”.