Southbury Training School Site: What Should Go There?

After a Dec. 4 meeting on the initial results of a state-funded study of the current Southbury Training School site, we asked Southbury Patch readers this question on Facebook:

So Southbury, what would you like to see at the Southbury Training School site?

Here's what readers had to say:

• A YMCA, a skating rink, a community theater. — Beth Steinberg Rosen

• Indoor sports complex like NYA in Newtown. — Pam Ventresca Vagnini

• A community recreation center with outdoor walking/running trails. — Daniel Capodicci

• A Super Walmart...Kidding. — Jaymie Castro Batoon

• A water park — Sean Kavanaugh

• More clients — Mike Salese

• @mike: Perhaps of all levels of poor mental [health] ... May actually stop some random violence like mass shootings or "the knockout game"... Cause we know more laws is a waste of time.... Crazy and or bad ppl don't care about laws — Chris Poletti

• YMCA with a 50 meter indoor/outdoor swimming pool. — Pat Osborn

• Indoor sports complex — Sharon Baranowski

• YMCA! — Lisa Coville

• Keep it what it is and stop getting rid of the mental health facilities — Shawn Detlefsen

• Yay Shawn Detlefsen!!!! — Holly Reda Bartlett

• Keep it a training school, stop turning a blind eye to mental health, stop saying we have a pill for that, and get to the root of the problem! We can't keep sweeping all this under the carpet or the carpet will continue to consume us as it already has started to do!! — Janelle McDougall

• I'm [with] Janelle but I think there a lack of state funding — Travis Hatfield