What Would You Build in Durham-Middlefield

Durham-Middlefield, CT - Earlier this week, Durham-Middlefield Patch asked our Facebook readers what they would build or fix in town if they were given $1 million.

Readers from across the area responded with answers varying from new playgrounds, renovated high schools and improved hospitals.

Also early this week, U.S. News and World Report released its list of the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals Across the Country. The hospitals were ranked in terms of “clinical outcomes,” “efficient coordination of care,” and “care-related resources.”

The publication periodically releases lists regarding the best schools in the country as well as most livable cities. Many of the things that make a town or city ‘livable’ are resources and public spaces i.e. good schools, roads, parks, libraries, etc. Not surprisingly, these were many of the things readers said they would build or fix in their town if granted $1 million to do so.

Here’s what your neighbors said they would build in Durham-Middlefield:

• "Put some lights and bathrooms in at the football field."
• "Personally, I would build a general store with an old-fashioned soda shop."
• "Renovate Korn - recreation/senior/adult education/ emergency shelter station/ voting and so much more in one building."
• "Sidewalks down Maple Avenue. I'm tired of people trucking across my lawn for four days."
• "I would open a vinery, a cross between a brewery and a winery...maybe right on Main Street!"
• "Maybe a public pool."
• "Lights and bathrooms at the football field at CRHS"
• "Splash pad for the kids."
• "The grange!"
• "Buy the fairgrounds and turn it into a golf course."
• "A big Y."
• "Youth Center that could NOT be taken over by senior citizen groups or Durham Park & Rec."

What would you build or renovate in Durham-Middlefield if you had $1 million? Let us know on our Facebook page.

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