Norwalk's Manresa Island Pitched For A Public Park: Report

NORWALK, CT — Norwalk's Manresa Island, which holds an abandoned utility site, could become a public park, under a proposal by local residents Austin and Allison McChord, The Hour reported.

The McChords intend to buy the 125-acre property to create the ecological waterfront park, which would also include an event space.

A website for the proposal can be viewed here. A non-profit entity, Manresa Island Corporation, has been launched to spearhead the project.

The island has been vacant for a decade, following the decommissioning of the coal-fired power plant on the property.

"Manresa Island will become a thriving, publicly accessible park that reconnects the community to the waterfront for the first time in nearly 75 years," the website reads.

Read The Hour story; view the Manresa Island Corp. website.