What Would You Build in Suffield?

Suffield, CT - Earlier this week, Suffield 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 Suffield:

• "An olympic size indoor pool with 1 m and 3 m springboard, as well as platform diving well. There are no facilities in the general Hartford area with all of this. They would make their money back in no time from memberships to use the facility along with multiple swim teams begging to rent time slots. Not to mention swim meets and diving events paying to use the facility. This is a no brainer! Suffield needs a community pool!"
• "How about lobbying to stop all the land from being bought and turned from forested land or farm land into developments on every single street. Small town appeal is quickly being dissolved by the land which we love being ravaged."

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

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