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Article: Adriaen's Landing: a rodent IPM success story: careful strategy at the construction stage proves useful long-term.(Technologies: * treatments * tools * research)
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- Pest Control
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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The Adriaen's Landing project is revitalizing a rundown, 30-acre section of downtown Hartford, CT. The project includes a convention center, hotel, residential apartments, "town square" entertainment and retail area, a science museum or similar attraction, and parking areas interconnected with pedestrian walk-ways and landscaped open space.
Groundbreaking for the project and for the initial utility work took place in May 2001, and construction is scheduled to continue into late 2005.
But even before the project began, people near the Adriaen's Landing site demanded assurance from the State of Connecticut that demolition of old buildings, sewer work and ...