Something Fishy By The Sound

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinnie.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Vinny, good morning. Just the water parks that they
want to build here in New Haven. Yes, I just
thought you used to know that Instructure used to gate
The company used to be called Gateway.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yes, right now.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
They're called Instructure. They offered more money, but the city
of New Haven wants to want to uh fight them.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
They offered more money for the property to do what
with it?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
They're probably going to convert it into another salt pile.
They have the salt piles when when you come off
your water ride, you're looking at the salt pile that
they used for the whole entire state of Connecticut for
the roads right by the Q Bridge there. You could
see them off at Chapel in East.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know what surprises me about this whole thing is
that when I went to play the clip of him
announcing it, that there were people actually applauding. And I'm
not saying that in a way. I'm just surprised there
that their support, any support for this surprises me.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, that's because the people don't know about it. Right
across the street where we saw the storm pile, I
worked for Instructure. That's why this is why this is
good info. Right across the seat where the salpiles are stored,
the ground is contaminated twenty feet down. Yeah, they tested
every year. I know that now this building, these guys
have been here for the last year going through a

(01:13):
white hats this and that they don't know how far
the contamination goes down or if it's been leaking into
the river.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I say, I know that, not in a smart
ass way, sir, Right. Just I got a bunch of
emails from firefighters, some former firefighters, some I think still
doing the job, and they're like, you don't understand this
is contaminated, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh yeah, and so anyways, I just wanted to let
you know that Instructure put a bid down to the
UI company because they would like this property. They also
have instructures. Just got a twelve million dollar grant to
redo the railroads because this is going to be a
but tane center. B Tane is going to be tracked
in on the railroads and then it's going to be

(01:51):
shipped out to god knows hit wherever right over here
on Chapelin East.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wait, so you work for this company for this instructure,
and you're saying that they actually even offered more money.
Why would you I not take that? Certainly you I
doesn't want to be bothered cleaning this property up. That's optot.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, no exactly. That's why somebody's got to dig a
little bit deeper.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I mean, I'm sure there somebody's getting paid off.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's interesting. And you're from the inside too.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
The other thing I pointed out to him was, right
right around the corner, you have a mesadone clinic where
people line up at five point thirty in the morning. Yeah,
you have the strip club where you have a shooting.
And then you got the homeless shelters, and you got
a homeless guy right now found asleep on Bender Plumbing stairs.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is it near Okay, you're right, it's not far from
Bender Plumbing. That's it. I wasn't coming at it from
that way. It's a hop skipping to jump from Water
Street right, and.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Then right across the street. Let's say you put your
entrance in. You got Nick Zach. Now, they're an environmental
company that goes around and does cleanups. So you're gonna
take your kids to the water park. You're gonna slide
into this nice green, brown water. Yeah, and then when
you go to leave, you got to look at mcvack,
and you got to look at the homeless people, and
it's it's just I can't wait to see Erliker out

(03:08):
of office.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh this should do him in, But I bet you
it doesn't. But it should.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
No, it won't because New Haven has deteriorated very much
in the last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
When I was a kid breaks while I was born
and raised, there were you born and raiser.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
No. I was born and raised in Orange, but I
work in New Haven. I worked in New Haven for
the last thirty years at the trash company all American weights.
So I know new Haven really well.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I know what goes on. Yeah, you got the inside scoop.
I appreciate you sharing it with me too. I got
to stay on this.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's so I just want yeah, I just want to
let you know, to stay on it. But Instructure has
made an offer to the UI. What they want to
do with the building, I have no idea. They probably
want to use it to store salt. But there's also
a group called Save the Sound. They're working with the
city and New Haven. They want to get rid of
the saltpiles out of here. They want to turn it
into a residential whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, well, keep me posted on this whatever you get,
and I'm gonna dig a little deeper myself.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, oh will. My name is Danny.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Danny. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
We'll troble Man, thanks for talking.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
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