Commission OKs land sale
At their meeting Wednesday night, members of the City Plan Commission approved of New Haven city officials’ plan to sell and lease a set of city properties to Yale University, as well a move to sell property to Amistad Academy.
The Commission approved the sale of a $3.35 million city lot located on 156 Washington Avenue to Yale. It also approved the plan to lease two traffic medians — Market Island and Begonia Island , which stand between Broadway retailers including Trailblazer and J.Crew — to the University for 99 years for roughly $400,000.
The two medians were installed...
