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Danbury officials look to donate Mallory Hat site to Women's Center

Danbury could donate the Mallory Hat site to the Women's Center for a new transitional housing center.  Mayor Mark Boughton is calling for a City Council Committee to review the donation of city owned property at 89 Rose Hill Avenue. 

 

Boughton says the property does contain levels of environmental contamination, but wants the City to work with the Women's Center to seek grants and other funding opportunities to make the project happen. 

 

The Women's Center has provided a safe haven to victims of domestic and sexual violence since its founding in 1975.  The Center serves 20,000 people in northern Fairfield and southern Litchfield Counties each year. 

 

In making his case for the project, Boughton cited a statistic from Forbes magazine.  It found that 24-percent of adult women and 14-percent of adult men have been physically assaulted by a partner at some point in their lives, but as long as the symptoms go unnoticed and unpunished, nothing changes. 

 

He believes it's time for Danbury to do its part and break the silence.

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