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The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is evaluating two options for replacing the so-called “Mixmaster” interchange of highway bridges in Waterbury following a $223.7 million rehabilitation of the crossroads of Interstate 84 and Connecticut Highway 8. The first option for the “New Mix” program, or the Modern Crossover Interchange, would involve reconstructing Conn. 8 ramps and bridges to the east of the Naugatuck River. The second alternative is known as the Naugatuck River Shift and would move the river toward the east to provide space for unstacking the series of Conn. 8 ramps and bridges. On Aug. 26, 2025, CTDOT officials unveiled the two options after reviewing and analyzing potential designs for the permanent replacement of the interchanges that carry I84 and Conn. 8 over both downtown Waterbury streets and the river. The chosen alternatives are projected to cost $3 billion to $5 billion in 2022 dollars. Built in 1968, the intricate network of stacked, overlapping bridges and elevated ramps was dubbed the Mixmaster after a trademarked kitchen mixer made by Sunbeam Products. 84 New Mix render At that time, the interchange was The Modern considered innovative because the Crossover stacked bridges allowed the crossroads see MIXMASTER page 16
Interchange plan rendering
New Soccer Stadium in Bridgeport, Conn., Requires Major Site Cleanup One day, the 18 acres along Kossuth Street on the lower east side of Bridgeport, Conn., could be the site of a minor league soccer stadium, a hotel and more than 1,000 housing units. But first, developer Andre Swanston and his Connecticut Sports Group (CTSG), per the state’s environmental regulations, need to exorcise — or at least safely contain — the ghosts of Bridgeport’s industrial past as ground contamination left behind by manufacturers and other operations that, beginning in the
1880s, at one time or another occupied that same piece of land. According to a recently-released environmental site assessment, obtained by the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, among the former companies that used the property were an iron works, a coal yard, the American Graphophone Co., the Frisbie Pie Co., textile and corset makers, a marine engine works business, the Bridgeport Paper Box Connecticut Sports Group logo
see SOCCER page 22