The city
quietly hired a consultant his summer to duplicate much of the job assigned to
the nonprofit Bristol Downtown Development Corp. overseeing the revitalization
of the former mall site.
The city agreed
to pay $18,500 to Goman + York Property Advisors, a high-powered East Hartford
firm, to provide “specific and actionable” recommendations to the City Council
about how to handle proposals from Renaissance Downtowns for the Depot Square
project.
Mayor Ken
Cockayne said he hired the firm because he “thought we needed an outside,
independent review” to go over all the material from Renaissance and offer the council
guidance on what to do next.
“I’m doing
my due diligence,” the mayor said.
He said he
kept the move quiet “to fend off any undue influence” on the consultant
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