As Vermont’s newest city, Essex Junction seeks a new identity

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (WCAX) - Essex Junction split from Essex Town and became Vermont’s newest city three years ago.

About 10,600 people call the 4.6 square miles of Chittenden County home. The Champlain Valley Expo started calling it home, too, back in 1922.

Now, the city is looking to the future and building a new identity along the way.

On a Tuesday in mid-August, it’s move-in day, not for college students but for employees at the Essex Junction city offices. It’s a modernized building for a city on the rise.

“It definitely feels like a step forward,” Essex Junction City Manager Regina Mahony said.

Mahony and the rest of the staff have been hunkered down in the Senior Center for months while the historic building at 2 Lincoln got an indoor overhaul.

“When you come inside, you actua