Town Meeting Minute Issue #15: After the Verdicts — One Decision Sets the Next in Motion

Posted by Tim Bray on September 13th, 2026

Town Meeting Minute • Issue #15

After the Verdicts: One Decision Sets the Next in Motion

Decision season delivered. Now comes the fallout. In the month since Issue #14, an affordable-housing subdivision was withdrawn on the day of its own meeting, a long-fought plan battle escalated with officials warning of impacts on hundreds of properties, a new wave of applications hit the Groton pipeline, and the region's most litigated commercial project finally got its hearing date — this Tuesday. The verdicts of August are becoming the applications, withdrawals, and showdowns of September.

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Every land-use decision is also a starting gun. An adopted…

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Community Redevelopment: How Seaport Commercial Agents are Revitalizing the City of Norwich

Posted by Tim Bray on January 17th, 2024

Original article from Claire Bessette of The Day | January 16, 2024 7:02 pm • Last Updated: January 16, 2024 9:49 pm Norwich ― New York-based real estate developers Ernest and Alfred Tollja learned about Norwich in 2018 from a persistent Norwich comedian who drove to their comedy theater nearly every night and pressured them to buy a building in his hometown. Six years later, the two brothers, originally from Albania, own more than a dozen apartment buildings in Norwich, with a total of 117 apartments. That comedian, however, has moved to upstate New York, the pair said Tuesday. On Thursday, they completed the purchase of three prominent lower Broadway buildings that are part of a larger revitalization…

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