City Meadow Project - Norfolk, CT

City Meadow Project - Norfolk, CT Coming Soon...a New Path for Downtown Norfolk - City Meadow, a delightful nature preserve in the very center of the Historic Norfolk Business District!

The City Meadow

No one knows why the five-acre parcel lying at the geographic heart of our small town center is called the “City Meadow”. Once known as “Battell’s Meadow”, it was open grazing land until the early 20th century, a welcoming pastoral vista for the many visitors arriving at the Norfolk train station. Though now transformed into an office building with a small café, the train station

remains in place, but the railroad has long since disappeared. Through the years Mr Battell’s meadow has become less welcoming, a man-made storm water wetland, its vista reduced to views of the invasive phragmites australis, dying trees, and a few old tires. By the end of the 20th century, increasingly unattractive in appearance and inaccessible to the public, the meadow had become an impediment to the town’s economic development potential by effectively separating Norfolk’s small commercial downtown into two disconnected wings, with neither wing large enough to support the kind of friendly pedestrian ambience that characterizes a successful small town shopping experience. Recognizing this, the town has worked over the last ten years to reclaim the meadow’s lost potential. With the impetus of a major $500,000 grant from the state, construction has now started on a plan that draws on the memory of the former cow pasture, creating a very different kind of village green that will bring the town’s disparate commercial businesses together with a common meadow overlook, linked by view and by pedestrian connection, with natural landscaping, fully accessible footpaths with a boardwalk through the wetlands, and a pond for fishing in the summer and ice-skating during Norfolk’s famous winter months. Additional off-street parking is also included, entered off Shepard Road. While work is just starting on the City Meadow park itself, its effects can already be seen in the noticeable improvements in the area just around the park: the new Berkshire Country Store, the soon-to-be-finished Norfolk Hub, and the new housing that’s being built by the Foundation for Norfolk Living along the northwest edges of the park alone represent a new investment in downtown Norfolk of over two and a half million dollars. And this is just the beginning!

City Meadow Project
06/05/2021

City Meadow Project

Topic: Norfolk Hub Talks presents A Look at City Meadow: Past and PresentDate: May 24, 2021 04:12 PM Eastern Time (US an...
05/25/2021

Topic: Norfolk Hub Talks presents A Look at City Meadow: Past and Present
Date: May 24, 2021 04:12 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada

If you missed this Norfolk Hub Talk - it is easily accessible to watch at your convenience through this link!

A retrospect of City Meadow’s transition from agricultural focal point to stormwater filtration system to a natural wetlands park which will connect to a newly revitalized public gathering place in the center of town. Presented by Sean Hayden, Molly Ackerly and Bob Gilchrest Sponsored by Norfolk F...

Music in the Meadow last Saturday! Great Fun!
05/18/2021

Music in the Meadow last Saturday! Great Fun!

Save the Date for a Botelle 6th Grade Benefit Concert! 🎹🎼Music in the Meadow! May 15th - 2 - 7pm! Botelle Elementary...
05/03/2021

Save the Date for a Botelle 6th Grade Benefit Concert!
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Music in the Meadow!

May 15th - 2 - 7pm!

Botelle Elementary PTO

Learn about Haystack Book Talks at the Hub, today until 2pm2 Station Place, in beautiful downtown Norfolk!
07/06/2019

Learn about Haystack Book Talks at the Hub, today until 2pm
2 Station Place, in beautiful downtown Norfolk!

Still time to register for your FREE seat...See you on Sunday @ 1pm!
07/03/2019

Still time to register for your FREE seat...See you on Sunday @ 1pm!

Inside the beautiful Norfolk Library! Please reserve your seat using the link in our bio!

04/26/2019

Saturday Meet & Greet - Dave Rosenfeld, new owner of Infinity Hall...
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