Construction of a $24 million housing development at 9 Scott Road is finally under way after 20 years, although a bit smaller than originally planned. The plan now is to build 47 affordable housing two-bedroom townhouse-style units in nine energy-efficient residential buildings. The 18-month project is scheduled for completion in late 2026. Heading up the […]
Crown Equities LLC is proposing between 240 and 296 houses, townhouses and apartment units at what it would call the Enclave at the Farmington River. The property includes a former gravel excavation plant, on a swath of land between Farmington Avenue and the river. The Minneapolis-based developer is exploring any opportunities to get financing through […]
A New York City development firm outlined its plan to about 40 residents Thursday for a $12 million project called the North Stonington Sports Dome and Adventure Complex. For the past few months, Fox Trails VII, LLC developers Damion Barrett and Guy Shmuel have discussed the project with First Selectman Bob Carlson. It calls for […]
The project, which began in May, involves removing sediment that has accumulated over decades. The debris had caused the water to become shallow and murky, and created drainage issues. After dredging, the pond bottom will be restored and a new pump will be installed to ensure a continuous supply of fresh water. The project also […]
In a news release, EB said it intends to convert the former store, a 121,000-square-foot building, into facilities for engineering, training and laboratory units, as it ramps up production of the Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines it builds for the U.S. Navy. EB said it expects to eventually put about 700 employees at the mall location, […]
Two 16-story towers containing 470 apartments and 28,000 square feet of retail and commercial space are now slated to be built next to Union Station, per the governor’s announcement Wednesday of a major new transit-oriented development. According to the governor’s press release, the $316.1 million project will be led by Gilbane Development Company and MURAL […]
The renovation and expansion project will enable to magnet school to expand its unique language immersion program through grade 8 as originally planned. The deadline to apply for state grant that is expected to pay nearly 80% of the $37 million cost is June 30. The Clemente project must make the annual school construction priority […]
“A lot of the congestion on Mill Plain Road is bypass traffic,” said Neil Patel, principal engineer for the costly and long-term I-84 improvement project. “With the improvements of the dynamic lane, we’ll see a (reduction) of that (bypass) traffic.” By “dynamic lane” Patel is referring to a $200 million plan that could begin construction […]
The state has selected developers to create a new transit-oriented, mixed-use community adjacent to New Haven’s Union Station, and says it’s actively pursuing another project in Stamford. The $316.1 million New Haven project will convert underused state-owned land at Union Station into a development anchored by two, 16-story towers housing 470 new apartments, including 118 […]
A Connecticut salvage yard with a connection to Nascar racing has proposed building a two-story recycling center on its property. The building’s first floor will house an area for receiving, processing and shipping metal materials, a garage and welding area for business maintenance, offices and restrooms. It will also include a “museum” space to display […]
Earlier this month, Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration announced the area Metropolitan Council of Governments (MetroCOG), in collaboration with the city and Trust for Public Land, is receiving those funds to design a continuous pathway with more spots providing direct access to the channel. The route would run from Waterview Park, situated at Crescent and Waterview […]
The federal government on Monday released a “record of decision” for construction of a new courthouse on Allyn Street in downtown Hartford, which marks the final step in a two-year environmental review process. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has selected the 2.2-acre site at 154 Allyn St., now a surface parking lot, situated between […]
The wind turbine installation vessel Wind Scylla, hoisted out of the water on towering structures downriver from New London Union Station, is undergoing repairs at State Pier, according to Paul Whitescarver, executive director for the Southeastern CT Enterprise Region and chairman of the CT Port Authority Board of Directors. Whitescarver said the repairs are minor. […]
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that he is vetoing two controversial bills, including one that would pay unemployment benefits to striking workers and the omnibus housing bill. The veto of the housing bill, House Bill 5002, became a possibility after opposition dramatically increased in the final days of the 2025 legislative session and after the […]
A Minneapolis-based developer is proposing a housing development in Farmington with hundreds of units, including a mix of upscale apartments, owner-occupied townhomes and detached single-family dwellings. Crown Equities LLC has filed an architectural master plan with the town for the development, called Enclave at the Farmington River. The project, estimated to cost $225 million, would […]
Stagnant water from a tributary of the Kinneytown Dam gives off a stench that keeps residents in the North Fourth Street area of Ansonia from opening their windows in the summer heat. While below, at the base of the dam, shad, eels and salmon attempting to migrate up the Naugatuck River have found themselves stuck […]
By next spring, the town’s Public Works Department hopes to begin work to replace the aging single-span bridge that carries Wheaton Road over the East Aspetuck River. Built in 1985, the 35-foot-long Wheaton Road bridge consists of a multigirder steel beam and concrete deck superstructure supported by concrete abutments and wingwalls, according to data from […]
The state Department of Transportation is alerting motorists to nighttime closures and detours on Paddock Avenue and intermittent lane shutdowns on Route 15 beginning Sunday night. The closures are expected to continue for about five weeks and are necessary to install girders for the Paddock Avenue bridge, according to the DOT. The bridge replacement is […]
Construction on a massive new Amazon facility on the Naugatuck/Waterbury line has been underway for just over a month. It came after the City of Waterbury closed a $2.5 million deal in late April, selling 157 acres of land to Amazon. Spanning nearly 15 of those acres will sit a five-story fulfillment center that Amazon […]
West Hartford received a $200,000 grant for assessment activities of the former AC Petersen Ice Cream production facility, a 1.02-acre site located at 240 Park Road. The assessment and subsequential cleanup will allow the building’s existing businesses, including the Playhouse on Park, a performing arts theater, to expand into the environmentally affected areas that have […]
The 1.13-acre coliseum site, 275 South Orange St., is currently a parking lot and was awarded $880,000. The funds will be used for site remediation that will enable the construction of a phase of a multi-use development that will include 7,159 square feet of retail space and 120 residential units. The other New Haven site, […]
A new double-track train station supporting a rail line between Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as the historic downtown train station, are both expected to be constructed and renovated by early this fall. The $65 million new train station has been under construction for about three years, and the “major initiative” is expected to […]
In June 2024, the town of Wallingford unanimously approved a special permit and site plan for a privately developed facility that would be devoted exclusively to charging electric vehicles (EVs). The plan submitted by Gem Property Group LLC intended to develop a 2.04-acre vacant lot just off Exit 15 of Interstate 91 at 1 Miles […]
The town will need $7.5 million more than expected to install sewers at Sound View Beach, which it owns, however the Board of Selectmen wants more information before sending the question to voters. Steve Cinami, chairman of the Water Pollution Control Authority, said voters will now be asked to approve $17.1 million, up from the […]
Thirteen years after the HealthBridge nursing home in Wethersfield shut down, a developer is proposing to demolish the vacant building and put up 160 apartments. Calafiore’s 341 Jordan Lane Development LLC will seek a zone change from the Planning and Zoning Commission; if it succeeds, it will later put forward a more detailed site plan […]
After almost 10 years of planning, setbacks and surprises, the Town of Stonington has secured the funding needed to start construction of the Mystic River Boathouse Park on Route 27. The $5.3 million project, located next to the new Delamar hotel and across the street from the former Rossie Mill, will feature a boathouse, a […]
The town has finalized the sale of the former Showcase Cinemas site on Silver Lane, paving the way for a $115 million development project that will feature more than 300 new apartments and various amenities. Following the agreed purchase in 2019, the Town Council unanimously approved the sale of the 25.6-acre parcel to developers Jasko […]
According to data from the Bureau of Transportation, around 2,100 miles of Connecticut’s roads are classified as poor. Connecticut’s road quality assessment is based on the 2023 dataset of the Highway Performance Monitoring System. A spokesman for the state Department of Transportation said that the Highway Performance Monitoring System data “is not ideal for comparison, […]
Construction is beginning on a $15 million, 100,000-square-foot-plus indoor pickleball facility, the largest by far in Connecticut and beyond, according to Pickleball Park President and General Manager Rob Keefrider. The business, at 100 Centerpoint Drive, will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days year, he said. It is expected to open in July 2026. […]
The state Department of Transportation is proposing to build $12.5 million of roundabouts at the Exit 89 interchange of Interstate 95 which it says will make for a smoother traffic flow at the Allyn Street exit, decrease backups, reduce speed and help prevent wrong-way driving. The DOT is proposing single-lane roundabouts at three intersections: the […]
Electric utility United Illuminating said Wednesday that the cost of designing and building a proposed underground transmission system from Bridgeport to Fairfield would be about $838 million. That’s about a half-billion dollars more than the estimated cost of rebuilding the overhead transmission system at $306 million. UI says the aging transmission infrastructure, which runs along […]
The Wallingford YMCA has received approval for renovation of its 26,900-square-foot west side facility following a unanimous vote from the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday. The Y is aiming to double the size of their existing facility with a brand new aquatics center at their west side location at 8 North Turnpike Road. Primarily […]
A development partnership has announced a new $43 million affordable housing acquisition and renovation in Brewery Square, in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven. Community Preservation Partners and Beacon Communities will collaborate on the purchase and upgrading of Brewery Square Apartments, a two-building development with 104 units. The historic complex was originally constructed in […]
Indianapolis-based developer Scannell Properties is proposing two new warehouses, totaling 881,500 square feet in Windsor Locks. Scannell is seeking a special permit and site review for the project, at the corner of Old County Road and Route 20, on 76 acres owned by tobacco company OJ Thrall. Architecture and engineering firm BL Companies submitted an […]
Private developers scrapped more projects in May than in any other month on record, according to the latest data from Cincinnati-based ConstructConnect. The Project Stress Index, a measure of construction projects that have been paused, abandoned or have a delayed bid date, increased 11.4% in May. That figure puts project stress 22.8% above 2021 baseline […]
The 2025 legislative session ended last week without a financial commitment from his administration for up to $127 million in desired state aid to help construct a soccer stadium, housing and hotel. The land in question is located just across Stratford Avenue from Boca at the shuttered Shoreline Star off-track betting site. But for Rosario […]
The cash-strapped city school system is set to get a financial boost after state lawmakers voted to set aside nearly $80 million to help build a new special education school and run the district. The Connecticut General Assembly approved a bond bill last week that includes up to $74 million for the construction of the […]
The state plans to replace the superstructures of two Interstate 84 bridges near the Danbury Fair mall as soon as 2029 as part of a $138 million upgrade of the highway from the New York border to Exit 4. The bridges in question at eastbound Exit 3 carry a daily average of 81,000 eastbound motorists […]
The state government is serving up what Gov. Ned Lamont described Monday as a $4 million “meat and potatoes” grant to replace aging underground utility infrastructure along West Main Street that dates back to the late 1890s. The state funding will enable construction crews to upgrade or replaced approximately 4,440 linear feet water, sanitary, sewer, […]
A committee of the Capital Region Development Authority recently backed a request from the city to transfer $2 million in city funds managed by CRDA to the demolition of the deteriorating, former data processing center on Windsor Street. The full CRDA board must still approve the transfer from a stalled, mixed-use development in Parkville, but […]
Despite a company’s assurances about using only modern technology, its proposed trash-processing plant in Connecticut hit a wall of public opposition when residents recently voted 10-1 against the idea. The non-binding Plainfield referendum doesn’t stop the Smart Technologies LLC proposal, because the state government — not the town — has authority over it. But the […]
A section of Route 8 in Connecticut is currently under repair. Crews are making improvements to the the Commodore Hull Bridge, which connects Shelton and Derby over the Housatonic River. State inspectors say they found that some parts of the bridge are beginning to deteriorate. Once officials learned of the deterioration, CTDOT signed an emergency […]
The town is holding off digging up Main Street and the town green until the fall, due to a glitch in the bidding process, officials said. The new timeline would mean that the disruption could continue through the summer of 2026. All the events, which were moved off the green in anticipation of the work, […]
The projects to rebuild both Westhill High School and Roxbury Elementary School cleared a major obstacle last week after the state General Assembly reauthorized both with larger budgets. The authorization, which was included in the state bond act that passed on Wednesday, sets the the maximum state grant reimbursement at $356.8 million for Westhill and […]
And appearances to the contrary, that timeline is correct, Wes Pulver, president of the museum association overseeing the $150 million project, said Tuesday as he walked the site of the future 89,000-square-foot, six-story building. “We’ve had some delays, but I’m not stressed about it,” Pulver said walking past an excavator that minutes before was scraping […]
The remaining St. John’s Towers buildings could be torn down to make way for a residential development that would bring 305 apartments to downtown Stamford. The owner of the roughly 1.6 acre property at 109 Tresser Blvd., Saint John Urban Development Corporation, submitted a project application to the city May 2 and said the plan […]
The state legislature has approved an additional $100 million to repair homes with crumbling foundations, which is expected to end the decade-long crisis in the state, according to Connecticut Foundations Solutions Indemnity Co. Superintendent Michael Maglaras. The state’s bond package, voted on during the last day of the legislative session on Wednesday, includes $25 million […]
A new technical magnet school is preparing for liftoff next year, offering students a chance to touch down on Mars as part of the curriculum. Goodwin University Magnet School System has begun construction on RiverTech, a new 288-student high school with a new four-story building next to the existing four-story Pathways Academy on Pent Road […]
The borough is developing a public-private partnership to bring a freight rail project to the former Uniroyal site. The partnership would include Darien-based Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services Inc., which owns or leases more than 100 railroads across North America, to develop a Naugatuck Industrial Rail Park off Elm Street. Hunter said some of the […]
The city expects a $6 million state grant to largely cover the estimated $9.4 million cost of demolishing the former bank processing center on Windsor Street. The city already has $1.4 million set aside for the tearing down of the bunker-like structure — now in advanced decay, hastened in recent years by vandalism and looting. […]
New York-based developer Ernest Tollja, the owner of the blighted Fairhaven building at 26-28 Broadway, said Tuesday part of the side of the building has now fallen apart. Tollja and his brother Albert Tollja, under TT Investments LLC, purchased the Fairhaven and two other lower Broadway buildings for a combined price of $810,000 last January. […]
The owner of a 27-acre forest on the New York border where a residential building boom is underway at the nearby Reserve on Danbury’s west side wants to change the property’s industrial zone to allow construction of 225 apartments. “There has not been significant interest in developing this property with (light industrial) uses,” writes Thomas […]
Residents approved all five referendum questions for public works projects totaling more than $12 million on Tuesday, including road work, a new pump station and a new public works building. The school improvements at Plainville High School include replacing the emergency generator, upkeep to the pool and replacing the pool room heater, replacing the rooftop […]
On the last day of the legislative session, state lawmakers Wednesday approved capital projects totaling about $6.6 billion for the two-year budget that starts July 1. That bill includes long-term bonding for lowering state energy bills, financing billions in school construction projects and expanding security measures for houses of worship. The 256-page bond bill passed […]
Yale will pause construction on 10 projects in the planning phase because of federal funding concerns, a university official revealed Tuesday to area business leaders. The good news is that the building boom in New Haven is continuing, leaders said. But investors and lenders are tightening the purse strings in the wake of mixed messages […]
St. John Urban Development Corp. has filed a proposal with the city to demolish two, 17-story cylindrical apartment towers that it built in 1971, at 109 Tresser Blvd., that have a total of 240 affordable units, and replace them with with a 10-story apartment building that will have 305 affordable units. The new building would […]
The project manager for the Ponemah Mills development said Tuesday that four more locations have been identified as receiving contaminated soil excavated from the mill site. Phil Biondo told members of the Commission on the City Plan on Tuesday that in addition to the contaminated soil already found at a construction site in Franklin, the […]
The DOT has agreed to settle a case challenging the constitutionality of its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, effectively barring women- and minority-owned companies from automatic inclusion in the initiative. In a joint motion filed May 28 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky that still needs a judge’s approval, DOT agreed to […]
The Norwich Public Utilities Board of Commissioners has appointed Ashon Avent as its chairman for the coming year, according to a community announcement. Avent, who has been an NPU commissioner since 2021, is the owner of T-Shirt World and a resident of Norwich for over a decade. He holds a degree from Eastern Connecticut State […]
Two old stone bridges are proposed to be upgraded by the state Department of Transportation, despite being previously reinforced with modern technology. The projects call for adding new roads over the bridges, which officials said will address deficiencies, ensure the spans meet required load standards and retain the bridges’ historic significance. The work will cost […]
The Commodore Hull Bridge, which carries Route 8 over the Housatonic River between Shelton and Derby, will now have a posted load restriction of a 32 tons load for all vehicles using the span, according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The bridge remains safe to use, according to DOT. The DOT said an emergency […]
Swanston should soon have more certainty about if and when his vision for the lower East Side in Bridgeport, which includes the soccer venue, a hotel, 1,100 housing units and public recreational space, will become a reality. The state House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would, should Bridgeport officials so choose, allow the […]
The construction work to fully replace the “structurally deficient” Van Car Road bridge is underway, while the work to replace the Sand Road bridge is expected to start in mid-June, according to officials from New Milford’s Public Works Department. “Both of these replacement projects will make the roadways safer for commuters as well as provide […]
The grant from the state’s Small Town Economic Assistance Program, which was announced Wednesday, will go toward a multi-million dollar project to add lighting and install artificial turf on both the baseball and softball fields, said Greg Dembowski, Brookfield’s economic development manager. The project, called “Brookfield High School Athletic Fields Renovations, Phase 1,” will add […]
The bridge on Cedar Heights Road in Stamford is open to two-way traffic after numerous delays. The bridge was rated to be in “serious” condition before it was closed, according to data from the Connecticut Department of Transportation. A “serious” grade is defined as a bridge with “major defects; strength and/or performance of the component […]
