Notice of Scoping for Windsor Locks TOD – Phases 1 and 2

Address of possible location: 255 Main Street, Windsor Locks, CT

Municipality where proposed action might be located: Windsor Locks

Project Description: Building upon the state of Connecticut’s newly relocated train station on the neighboring parcel, Trinity is proposing a two-phase, mixed-use redevelopment of 255 Main Street in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This $84-million transit-oriented development (TOD) will replace an aging 37,000-square-foot commercial/retail strip center from 1987 with 120 mixed-income apartments over ground-floor commercial space. Anchoring the north end of Main Street, the Windsor Locks TOD project will unlock and activate a long-underutilized 3.2-acre parcel with a design that engages with the new train station and Main Street. The Windsor Locks TOD project will be delivered in two phases: a 70-unit first phase and a 50-unit second phase. In 2022, Governor Lamont broke ground on a new $65-million train station in Windsor Locks that will return the town’s existing station back to its original location in the downtown area, which is adjacent to 255 Main Street site and the town’s historic train station. The new station will include a high‐level platform to allow for level boarding from every train car and will continue to offer shuttle bus connections to Bradley International Airport via CT Transit bus route 24. The new Windsor Locks station will be served by both the CTrail’s Hartford line with service to Springfield, Massachusetts and New Haven, as well as four Amtrak lines, and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025. As part of the new train station, the state of Connecticut will also be making streetscape improvements along Main Street that will strengthen the connection of downtown Windsor Locks to the project site. The plans for the Windsor Locks TOD project call for the abatement and demolition of the existing 37,000 square-foot commercial on the site that was built in 1987, as well as demolition of the existing parking lot and stormwater drainage system. The Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments completed by in late 2023 and early 2024 by McPhail Associates indicates a number of Areas of Concern and Recognized Environmental Conditions, including the historical filling of a pond that previously occupied the property, historical railroad yard/use, former coal storage, former gasoline filling station, and petroleum impacts to the soil and groundwater from an off-site gasoline filling station. This contamination is a significant obstacle that is preventing the property from being redeveloped. The site will need to be further investigated and remediated, and the existing building will need to be abated and demolished before the site can be redeveloped into the mixed-use project contemplated by Trinity. The project’s hazardous material study, which was completed in the spring of 2024, identified asbestos-containing materials in the tiles and on the roof of existing building. Four of the units within the complex tested positive for lead-based paint. PCB-containing light ballasts and/or Mercury-containing equipment, were also both identified in the hazardous materials study.

Project Map: Click here to view a map of the project area. 

Written comments from the public are welcomed and will be accepted until the close of business on: January 16, 2026.

Any person may ask the sponsoring agency to hold a public scoping meeting by sending such a request to the address below. If a public scoping meeting is requested by 25 or more individuals, or by an association that represents 25 or more members, the sponsoring agency shall schedule a public scoping meeting. Such requests must be made by: December 26, 2025. 

Written comments and/or requests for a public scoping meeting should be sent to

Name: Mithila Chakraborty, Ph.D.

Agency: CT Department of Housing

Address: 505 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT  06106-7106

E-Mail: mithila.chakraborty@ct.gov

Inquiries and requests to view and or copy documents, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, must be submitted to the sponsoring state agency:

Name: Mithila Chakraborty, Ph.D.

Agency: CT Department of Housing

Address: 505 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT  06106-7106

E-Mail: mithila.chakraborty@ct.gov

What Happens Next: The sponsoring agency will make a determination whether to proceed with preparation of an Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE) or that the project does not require the preparation of an EIE under the Connecticut Environmental Policy Act (CEPA). A Post-Scoping Notice of its decision will appear in a future edition of the Environmental Monitor.