The couple purchased the Manresa Island property with plans to turn it into a public park and community hub as a gift to ...

Austin and Allison McChord plan to transform Norwalk’s decommissioned Manresa Island power plant into a community park, ...

Plans to turn the long-restricted Manresa Island in Norwalk into a 125-acre public park, beach and nature center represent a ...

Austin and Allison McChord have pledged to transform an abandoned industrial site into an ecological waterfront park as a ...

Austin and Allison McChord on Tuesday discuss their project to convert Manresa Island into a publicly accessible park. (Photo ...

The former industrial power plant of Manresa Island in Norwalk on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, which Philanthropist Austin and ...

A Connecticut couple plans to transform an abandoned industrial island into a fully accessible and dynamic natural park and community destination.

A Norwalk, Connecticut couple is using their private philanthropy to buy Manresa Island, the 125-acre site of a former ...

Manresa Island will become a “one-of-its-kind community hub” and the abandoned power plant there will house recreational ...

Austin McChord, the founder of cybersecurity company Datto and a Norwalk native, is behind the new plans for Manresa Island, along with his wife Allison. Manresa Island is a 125-acre parcel at the ...

For decades, Manresa Island spewed coal and oil pollution into nearby neighborhoods. But thanks to tech entrepreneur Austin ...