The project includes creating 18 new stops and four mini-hubs and the procurement of 15 new electric buses. There also will be a dedicated bus-only guideway and traffic signal priority buses, according to officials. Members of the city’s federal delegation and local officials announced a $25 million federal grant to help build a new BRT […]
The state is distributing $23.8 million in grants and loans to clean up and revive former industrial sites in Bristol, Bridgeport, New Haven, Fairfield and other towns. The brownfields remediation funding affects 480 acres on 22 properties in 15 communities, including Bridgeport, New Haven and Bristol, where a shuttered steel plant is targeted for renewal. […]
The State Bond Commission is expected to approve $340.2 million in funding for projects across the state when it meets Friday morning. The agenda includes a $6.5 million request for abatement and demolition of buildings at Founders Plaza in East Hartford, including the former McCartin School and three adjacent buildings. The commission is also set […]
Two vacant parcels in a prime development area of North Haven have been sold for a combined $6 million. The properties at 405 and 417-425 Washington Ave., sit directly adjacent to the new Amazon fulfillment center, and are some of the last open parcels along the commercial stretch of Washington Avenue, Route 5. Both properties […]
State officials are planning changes to the Bishops Corner intersection at North Main Street and Albany Avenue, citing that the area is “unfavorable for pedestrian travel.” The state’s efforts to improve pedestrian safety in West Hartford comes as the town embarks on its own Vision Zero process to do the same. The town took the […]
The cargo ship Trina arrived at Adm. Harold E. Shear State Pier from Denmark Wednesday morning, ready to offload 16 huge tower pieces that will be used to assemble Ørsted’s first four wind turbines. Its arrival marks the first time that the 200-ton tower sections, each measuring 65 to 100 feet long, had been transported […]
Bronin has requested the city council authorize him to enter into a tax-fixing agreement, purchase and sales agreement, development agreement, and ground lease for 17 Bartholomew Ave. The underutilized downtown parking lot is owned by Carlos Mouta of 17-35 Bartholomew Avenue LLC, who is seeking a public/private partnership with the city in his vision for […]
A plan to develop more than 200 acres got closer to realty with the recent announcement of $3 million in federal community project funding. “Every day there’s an article in the paper about the housing crisis affecting families,” DeLauro, who represents the 3rd District, said at a press conference inside Seymour Town Hall Tuesday. The […]
State funding is ready for a streetscape improvement project for downtown Plantsville that’s been in the works for well over a decade. The $4.3 million project will realign the West Main Street and Route 10 intersection slightly to improve site lines in addition to providing other safety and aesthetics upgrades for the area. Funding is […]
Hamden is seeking $5 million from the state’s Community Investment Fund, a portion of which would help repair the tennis courts. The rest would go toward updating and renovating the neighboring Louis Astorino Ice Arena. The Legislative Council on Tuesday voted to give the town administration permission to submit the CIF application. The tennis courts, […]
Lewis Brown, principal of affordable housing developer Honeycomb Real Estate Partners, expects to launch a $26 million transformation of the run-down West Hartford Inn into 44 affordable apartments this fall. Soaring interest rates and construction costs, along with historic levels of state funding, have some of the biggest names in Connecticut’s multifamily development sector moving […]
For decades, homes in Hartford’s North End have been plagued by regular flooding, and nobody took responsibility for fixing the problem. But on Monday, state and local officials, led by Gov. Lamont and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, announced a $170 million project to correct decades of environmental injustice. The $85 million to pay the state’s […]
The exact amount of stolen wages in Connecticut is unknown, but some insight can be gleaned from complaints filed by workers to the departments of labor at both the state and federal levels, which investigate these complaints and can order employers to pay back wages. Based on investigations of those complaints, the U.S. Department of […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded New London $17 million for planned transit-related infrastructure improvements downtown, the largest portion going toward expansion of the city’s Water Street parking garage, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd, announced on Thursday. The city has for years sought federal funds for the garage expansion and improvements that would alleviate […]
A dying mall near the junction of two interstates and within hailing distance of a transportation hub might be ripe for what planners call “repurposing.” If that mall is in a growing, well-populated area that’s short on housing, particularly affordable housing, that repurposing might involve a “highest and best use” that includes a mix of […]
After a nearly yearlong moratorium on data center applications, proposed data center regulations will go to a public hearing on Tuesday. The proposed regulations conditionally would allow data centers, which could be no larger than 12,500 square feet, in industrial zones only. Any proposed data center must comply with the state’s noise standards. A data […]
The City Council voted Tuesday to apply for a $1.4 million state grant to help build a new Meriden Soccer Athletic Complex Project at Columbus Park. The new fields in Columbus Park will ensure residents still have a place to play soccer, since the fields currently located next to MidState Medical Center on Lewis Avenue […]
State lawmakers recently approved over $100 million in upgrades ($20 million of which would come from private funding), but that will only fix critical issues that are desperately needed, Freimuth said. Then there’s Gov. Ned Lamont’s public interest in bringing an NHL team — potentially the arena-challenged Arizona Coyotes — to Hartford, which would mean […]
A stone bridge on Wesskum Wood Road in Binney Park needs to be replaced and work is expected to start July 5, according to Greenwich’s Department of Public Works. The project is expected to take a year to complete and traffic will be detoured on Arch Street, Sound Beach Avenue, West End Avenue, Summit Road, […]
Dixwell Plaza’s redevelopers plan to start knocking down vacant buildings in the mid-century shopping plaza as soon as September — as they move forward with a years-in-the-making effort to build up the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood. Those plans were presented by the Connecticut Community Outreach and Revitalization Program (ConnCORP) and its construction partners on […]
The development, called the Regency at Woodbridge, will feature three or four complexes with a total of 70 carriage-style town homes covering about 15 acres on Bradley Road and Litchfield Turnpike, the plans show. A sign on site touts luxury-style homes. The cost of the units will start at more than a half-million dollars, according […]
A local golf club received the approval needed to go forward with a $4.5 million construction project that will offer new amenities to its members. Bull’s Bridge Golf Club submitted a special permit and site plan application to the New Milford Zoning Commission in March to make kitchen and dining room additions in its clubhouse […]
The analysis found that solar power had lowered the demand for energy in the region and fewer power plants had retired, putting New England in a better position to manage gas constraints in the winter. ISO-New England President and CEO Gordon van Welie cautioned, however, that the study is not complete and that there are […]
An extra $5 million for the school building project could be used to add turf and lighting to the property’s new playing fields, and members of the project’s building committee are eyeing a grant to pay for it. Construction began in mid-2022, and the middle-high school project is well underway on Major Besse Drive. Construction […]
The Connecticut Department of Transportation lists 24 major construction projects statewide – encapsulating some of the biggest and most expensive projects in the state. Some of those are still in the planning phases, while others are already complete. CTDOT is working on a major project on Route 15, better known as the Merritt Parkway that […]
The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved the construction of a five-story, 80-room extended stay hotel at 321 Liberty St, Route 2, in Pawcatuck, Tuesday night. The project was proposed by Mystic Sahajanand, LLC, of Pawcatuck, whose principal, Mukesh Patel, also owns the 75-room La Quinta Inn & Suites at 349 Liberty St., which was […]
The state of Connecticut is going to pay the town $7,100 for an easement that passes over the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail to facilitate the movement of construction equipment to a Route 15 northbound bridge slated for repair. While the state needs it for the upcoming work, the easement will be permanent. It is part […]
The proposed four-story 300,000-square-foot iPark Hotel would be located at the mixed-use campus of iPark Norwalk, at One Cannondale Way, off Kent Road between Danbury Road and the railroad line. The commission had asked the developers to prepare more details on the project’s potential impact on traffic in the area. At the meeting, consultant Veronica […]
The Silverman Group’s concept for The Ridge at Talcott Mountain – South would focus on rental housing with 448 new apartments. The company also wants to build 70 one-family houses as well as 11 duplexes, which would create 22 separate units. The Silverman Group is scheduled to outline its idea to town planners when the […]
The project, East Windsor Solar One, reveals the limits of what state and local officials can do if problems arise with solar farms once they are in place. The Connecticut Siting Council sets the conditions for their approval, and those conditions are enforceable. But this case fell into what appears to be a gray area. […]
The biotech industry has physically reshaped downtown New Haven. It’s hard not to feel as if Boston or Cambridge Massachusetts’s Kendall Square has sprouted here. Twenty years ago, there was barely any private lab space in New Haven proper. West Haven was still home to the Bayer campus. The startup scene wasn’t really present, and […]
Indiana developer Scannell wants to build two structures on about one-third of the property’s footprint, for a total of more than a million square feet of warehouse space. The company is asking for the property to be rezoned from business to industrial, with the town having oversight over any future changes to usage. At a […]
he state has reached a settlement with a former Connecticut Port Authority board member who allegedly used his status on the board to secure work for a company that he partially owned. Henry Juan, who served on the CPA Board of Directors from 2016 to 2018, agreed to pay the Connecticut Office of State Ethics […]
The Simon Konover Co. is planning to expand its Stepny Place apartment complex with 72 new units, including 10% set aside as affordable housing. Konover, among the largest real estate development and residential property owners in Connecticut, wants to build three multi-story apartment buildings along with an amenities center on land alongside Stepny Place’s existing […]
An extensive dam deconstruction project underway on the Norwalk River is meant to improve the health of the body of water and even help the so-called “vampire fish” return to the river. Its Mianus Chapter, which is based in Wilton — working in conjunction with Save the Sound, a New Haven-based nonprofit aiming to improve […]
As the state experiences an increase in highway crashes caused by wrong-way drivers, the Connecticut Department of Transportation has identified 236 “high-risk” highway ramps across the state that will receive advanced “wrong way” signs. The DOT expects about 50 signs to be installed in 2023, nine of which will be in Bridgeport, Norwalk and Westport. […]
On an early spring evening nearly two decades ago, a similar scene unfolded on the same interstate in Bridgeport after a sedan struck a Mack tanker, igniting an explosion that halted traffic along one of the country’s most traveled highways. Though no one was seriously injured, the ensuing blaze burned through about 8,000 gallons of […]
Voters will be asked to approve the $5.3 million renovation of the Lymes’ Senior Center in a paper ballot vote next week. Old Lyme residents, as well as those who own more than $1,000 in taxable property in town, will be asked to authorize officials to spend up to $3.9 million on the renovation. About […]
Hartford’s planning commission on Tuesday approved a new garage with an elevated walkway to span Washington Street as part of expansion plans for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The planned eight-story parking structure is key to Connecticut Children’s ongoing expansion, which includes a $326 million clinical tower now under construction. Engineers Fuss & O’Neill have designed […]
Back in May, Mayor Mike Walsh and MV Properties Principal Vincent DiCarlo pitched the project to the Town Council as a $10 million sports complex at McAuliffe Park on Remington Street. The proposal is a result of a non-binding public-private partnership with MV Properties, selected earlier this year through a town bidding process. Walsh said […]
Instead of hosting the media at his new Hamden headquarters, FullStack Modular President Roger Krulak chose another location for a big announcement in April — the Port of New Haven. There, he publicly revealed that he would be moving his company and more than 100 jobs from New York City to Connecticut. The company builds […]
A developer’s plan to build 500 units of housing, plus retail, restaurants, a grocery store and more at the former University of Connecticut campus, has caught the attention of town residents. West Hartford 1’s proposal to create Oakwood Park on the property that has been vacant since 2017 are still in the early stages, with […]
Connecticut’s bridge inspection program, which monitors the condition of about 5,000 bridges statewide, won’t change after the collapse of a major highway in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to the CT Department of Transportation. The state is responsible for inspecting about 4,000 state-owned bridges across the state, along with another roughly 1,000 municipal bridges with spans […]
The XL Center could get $20 million in private funding to put toward a renovation that would cost more than $100 million, according to the state budget passed by the Senate and the House before the end of the legislative session. The budget would allow for Oak View Group — the contractor that runs day-to-day […]
Town and borough officials said they’re optimistic that the state Department of Transportation is paying attention to their questions about a $25.5 million plan to replace the Alpha Avenue viaduct. The plan to replace the 83-year-old bridge announced last month would require closing off Cutler Street as well as Mathews/Main Street as well as taking […]
In a letter to City Council, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said public subsidies would be necessary to complete the Bushnell South project. The proposed agreement would allow the mayor to enter into tax-fixing agreements with developers of the project. The tax agreements can be up to 15 years and can have a two-year construction period, […]
YMCA Camp Sloper secured $500,000 in additional funding this past legislative session, giving the East Street outdoor center the remaining money needed to dredge Sloper Pond. Sloper Pond has been naturally filling up with silt, and eventually would have turned into a shallow marsh — making it unusable for swimmers at Camp Sloper. The $500,000 […]
In coming weeks, the tops of enormous tower sections for offshore windmills — 300 feet tall and 20 feet around — will rise above the bridge from the harborside, the most visible component of an ambitious, $300 million commitment by the state not only to renewable energy but to Connecticut’s long-ignored maritime economy. After a […]
A local development team is seeking land use permits for a vacant parcel in Southington that they will sell for a future industrial warehouse project. Mark Lovley and Jason Manafort, principals of Technology Industrial Park LLC, bought a 53-acre vacant parcel at 53 Spring St., for $550,000 in 2021. They are seeking wetlands and planning […]
An official Cranbury School Farewell Event on Saturday will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the event, attendees can enjoy Cranbury memorabilia, look at pictures and spirit wear, and take home a daffodil or iris bulb for planting. As the community says goodbye to the old Cranbury school, it says hello to the […]
Bulkeley High School at 300 Wethersfield Ave. was quiet Friday morning. Surrounded by tall fences and appearing abandoned, you’d never guess it was in the midst of a complete remodel. School officials say the project is running behind schedule and over budget. Construction on Bulkeley High School is set to cost $61 million more and […]
Architect Michael Weissbrod, representing Wall Street Recap Associates, presented the “refinements” to the plan during the commission’s meeting last Wednesday. The commission previously approved the project in December 2020. Parking was also one of the issues that stalled the project. The 2020-approved plan included covered parking in the middle of the Wall Street building and […]
The city has been in conversations with the owner of the former Citizens Bank corporate offices at 225-243 Main St., on the corner of College Street. It is being considered as a “potentially workable site” for a new municipal complex, Mayor Ben Florsheim said at the June 5 Common Council meeting. The Russell Library/City Hall […]
A far-reaching plan for solving Greater Hartford’s transportation troubles is now taking final shape, including a half-dozen options under consideration for easing congestion at the I-91/1-84 interchange in Hartford, a notorious bottleneck. The interchange is at the center of the Greater Hartford Mobility Study, launched in 2020. The DOT declined to discuss details of the […]
Town officials plan to raze all of Silver Lane Plaza, after approving the demolition of two more buildings Tuesday night. Mayor Mike Walsh said demolition of the largest building to be finished by Labor Day, but the timeline on the two smaller structures is less clear. Town Council Vice Chairman Don Bell said he felt […]
Hartford’s aging XL Center arena is now closer to a major renovation than it has been in a decade, after state lawmakers backed a plan that would allow at least $20 million in private investment for the $107 million project. The legislation, approved as part of the $51.1 billion state budget for the next two […]
Salvatore Campofranco and Luzern Associates, based in Boston and Greenwich, are building The Day Hill Logistics Center, a 170,300-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center at 425 Day Hill Road, near Bradley International Airport and Interstate 91. Developers anticipate an early 2024 opening. The facility is being built “on spec,” with no tenant secured. Office space can […]
New York-based Regan Development Corp. last month pitched a $26 million project that would involve construction of 64 units at 2980 State St. and the addition of infrastructure improvements aimed at making the roadway more pedestrian-friendly. Fifteen percent of all units would serve people earning 30 percent or less of the area median income, he […]
The General Assembly approved a $7.5 billion two-year bond package late Wednesday that invests nearly $5 billion in transportation, housing, capital projects at public colleges and universities and local school construction. The Democratic-controlled legislature endorsed the financing in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, with the House of Representatives voting 145-4 and the Senate backing the measure 35-1. […]
The 1.88-acre property at 16 Cedar St., with a commanding view of Norwich Harbor, is the site of the former New London County Jail, a factory associated with the jail and the home site of an early 19th century prominent Norwich African American family. A Hartford-based housing developer purchased the property in January for $80,500 […]
Yale New Haven Health’s goal to build a comprehensive medical center at the site of the former Macy’s at Meriden Mall remains behind schedule. Yale New Haven officials said the 179,258-square-foot former Macy’s store will be used to provide out-patient care for patients through partnerships with Smilow Cancer Hospital, the Yale New Haven Heart and […]
For the third time in a year, planners have shut down a major development proposed for the open terrain off Interstate 84 at Exit 9 — this time a rezoning request to allow 300 apartments. Bloom was referring to request by New Jersey developer Sterling Properties to rezone 70 of the 100 acres in question […]
After months of delays caused by environmental issues, the developers of the luxury apartment project at the Steelpointe site are now aiming to break ground on the first phase in around 50 days. As reported in early January, the Christophs had hoped construction would already have been well-underway. But things got complicated after it was […]
Connecticut taxpayers could cover up to $80 million in renovation costs for the XL Center arena in downtown Hartford under the budget deal struck by Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders this week. Among the multitude of provisions in the budget compromise is the outline of a deal that would see Los Angeles-based entertainment and […]
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $51.1 billion biennial budget early Tuesday morning that features a broad-based state income tax cut and dramatically boosts funding to local school districts. The package, which passed 139-12 with strong bipartisan support following a nearly three-hour debate that began late Monday, now heads to the Senate, which also […]
Transportation planners and contractors in Connecticut are shoring up a section of this vital roadway in Norwalk. The cost of the project is expected to be $104 million. The venture began in the summer of 2022 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2024. The goal of the job is to improve […]
Construction employment is on an upward path and that’s both good and bad. By extension, if jobs increase, so does the need for workers. And that’s the continued challenge for the industry: contractors are beating the bushes for skilled labor to meet their labor needs. Construction employment rose from April 2022 to April 2023 in […]
Almeida and the New Haven Fire Department rescue company he oversees faced that challenge on Friday afternoon after an apartment building under construction on Lafayette Street partially collapsed. They moved fast, but carefully, amid danger to themselves to save the life of a laborer for an Orange-based company called Seven Concrete while helping to build […]
Amid strong opposition from the public, members of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission continued a public hearing regarding a special exception request to construct an 8,100-square-foot trucking terminal with 10 loading docks in a densely populated, residential area near Interstate 91. The plan calls for eight small, and two large, overhead bays and a […]
Local, state and federal officials gathered in Waterbury Monday morning to celebrate $8.8 million in brownfield cleanup funds for Connecticut. Waterbury is pushing hard to cross properties off its list of brownfields. The 12-year-administration of Mayor Neil O’Leary has succeeded in pulling in tens-of-millions of dollars in state and federal cleanup grants. Speakers emphasized the […]
An isolated corner of downtown Hartford that struggled for decades to be known for more than its dusty parking lots appeared finally to have something going for it: a popular minor league ballpark and brisk leasing of the first of as many as 1,000 apartments. The city and the original developer, who was fired from […]
Built-out and pocked with abandoned buildings and tattered shopping plazas, East Hartford has long suffered from a lack of interest by developers in building anything new within its 18 square miles. With per-capita income among the state’s lowest at about $32,000, East Hartford’s residents face few choices when it comes to shopping, updated housing or […]
Workers were pouring 4 million pounds of concrete when a building under construction on Lafayette Street collapsed Friday, injuring eight, an official said. As of Saturday afternoon, four of the workers who were rescued at the scene of the collapse at 188 Lafayette St. remain hospitalized, according to a spokesperson for Yale New Haven Hospital. […]
Deborah Sims, like Newton, also attended the rallies at Mount Trashmore. Now she and the coalition she helped form are on the cusp of turning the municipally-owned site across from Johnsons Creek, bordered by Central Avenue, Trowel Street and Suggetts Lane, into an agricultural and wellness campus. The new name? Mount Growmore. On Monday Bridgeport’s […]
Crews are preparing to use explosives to blast away up to a foot of rock as part of the construction of a new crucial pumping station that will help mitigate flooding near the banks of the Housatonic River, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The construction of the pump station is a key […]
On May 19 the cargo ship Claude A. Desgagnes arrived from Denmark to a State Pier in New London. It carried both the first components for offshore wind turbine construction and the promising possibilities that this will become a major new industry, benefiting the region and state while combating climate change. The turbine parts are […]
The National Coast Guard Museum Association announced last week it is ready to go to bid this week on the work to create the foundation for the more than 80,000-square-foot, six-story museum that will occupy a prominent place on the city’s waterfront. The upcoming work will include the installation of about 240 micropiles, essentially rods […]
A judge this week sided against the city in the ongoing lawsuit surrounding development around Dunkin’ Park, further delaying long-discussed plans for major developments in the area before a trial set for April 2024. The ruling, issued Tuesday by Superior Court Judge Cesar A. Noble, denied a motion to strike or dismiss a part of […]
The Yale Peabody Museum building renovations are nearly done. For the next year, museum curators, staff and construction personnel will put the final touches on the building and re-install exhibits for the reopening in 2024. The lobby entrance, once a narrow gothic arch congested by school groups has been widened. A new freight elevator, rated […]
President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck an agreement late Saturday to suspend the debt ceiling for two years. The result of their talks, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, will cut $136 billion in federal spending and avert a default, and most notably for the nation’s civil contractors, includes measures to accelerate environmental […]
