Pennrose and The Cloud Company celebrated the grand opening of Meriden Commons II, the second phase of the transit-oriented Meriden Commons development in downtown Meriden, Connecticut. Developed in partnership with the City of Meriden and the Meriden Housing Authority (MHA), the project follows the grand opening of Meriden Commons I in July 2018 and builds upon city efforts to transform the Meriden Green area with mixed-income housing, retail space, and improved accessibility via multimodal transportation.
Speakers at the event included: Ned Lamont, Governor, State of Connecticut; Kevin Scarpati, Mayor, City of Meriden; Hilda Santiago, State Representative, Connecticut House of Representatives; Seila Mosquera-Bruno, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Housing; Nandini Natarajan, Chief Executive Officer (Executive Director), Connecticut Housing Finance Agency; Binu Chandy, Deputy Director, Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development, CT Department of Economic & Community Development; Suzanne Piacentini, Field Office Director, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development; Cornelius J. Ivers, Chairman, Meriden Housing Authority; Sanford Cloud Jr., Chairman & CEO, The Cloud Company, LLC; Timothy I. Henkel, Principal & Senior Vice President, Pennrose, LLC.
