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

The transformation would be a 125-acre publicly accessible waterfront park with a green space, walking trails with beach ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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