What Would You Build in Milford?

Milford, CT - Earlier this week, Milford 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 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 Milford:

• "I would try and buy as much open space as I could and keep it as open space since Milford is way over developed."
• "The roads and highways. It's absolutely insane how after all these years of "fixing" the roads and highways that they are still as bad as they originally were."
• "Hire new staff for the library. The staff there now are rude, don't want to be bothered to help you at all and it makes for an unwelcoming atmosphere. I go out of town to go to a library."
• "Buy any vast amount of properties - the jai alai deal worked great! If the City owns the properties, the City can control its own economic destiny"
• "I would get all the rocks off of Woodmont Beach"
• "Duck ponds, but I bet it takes more than a million dollars."
• "Fix all the roads that need fixing."
• "Clean up and dredge the duck ponds. They're disgusting."
• "A drive in."

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

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