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Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Mayor defends downtown ‘infill’

Contributing Reporting
Published Thursday, February 28, 2008

Some 30 Elm City residents and officials met in the Edgewood School Library Wednesday night for Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s third go-around at making a case for long-term economic development in downtown New Haven.

Elaborating on themes from two previous meetings this year, DeStefano talked primarily about what he called the need for a concentrated expansion in the city’s commercial district. The mayor focused on his proposed “urban infill strategy” to increase the density of the downtown area over the next 10 years.

In a question-and-answer session at the end, residents...

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