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June 24, 2024 / 2024 Power 25 Real Estate

2024 Power 25 Real Estate: Ann Catino

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Most quality developers have a great lawyer or two to help guide them through the thicket of regulations that exist in trying to redevelop or build something new in Connecticut.

One influential attorney is Ann Catino, an environmental lawyer at law firm Halloran Sage LLP in Hartford.

Catino’s influence is reflected in some of her statewide leadership appointments. For example, she has co-chaired the state’s brownfield working group, overseeing Connecticut’s brownfield programs for over 15 years. During that time, the group has proposed to the legislature new brownfield funding and liability-relief programs, with a particular focus on brownfield prevention and remediation.

She was also named a member of the release-based working group, which was created in 2020 to help craft new regulations to replace the state’s burdensome system — known as the Transfer Act — that governs environmental cleanups of potentially contaminated properties.

Additionally, Catino is working on several significant brownfield projects, including the redevelopment of a former gas station in Hartford into an office and retail building. She’s also involved in the transformation of an agricultural property into a vineyard with an expanded tasting room and entertainment features; and a transit-oriented development along the I-95 and Metro-North corridor.

There’s been a major push in recent years, she said, to transform old mills into mixed-use apartment projects.

“Polluted properties affect many of the state’s downtown and inner-city properties — old mills and manufacturing facilities to smaller gas stations, print shops and dry cleaners,” Catino said. “It’s part of our manufacturing past, dating back over 100 years ago. But they also exist in every town. All these sites require expertise, balancing and translating the environmental requirements … and navigating what can be a very daunting and frustrating myriad of regulations. Clients want projects to have achievable goals, manageable risk, reasonable and financeable costs and meaningful time frames.”

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