With a groundbreaking ceremony tentatively planned for sometime before Thanksgiving, the project to build a new headquarters for the Wilton Police Department is finally moving forward toward construction even as costs increased to over $15 million. The Board of Selectmen gave its unanimous approval to enter into a contract with A. Secondino & Son Inc., […]
Officials have approved an additional $2 million to fund the final portion of soil remediation at Greenwich High School, which is expected to be the last spending on the long-running project. Public Works Commissioner Amy Seibert told the BET budget committee that crews found more toxic materials while working this summer, which are more expensive […]
The Connecticut Department of Transportation will hold a “hybrid” public information meeting on the proposed Railroad Station in Enfield at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, at Enfield Town Hall, 820 Enfield St., and on Zoom and YouTube, according to the agency. Further, the meeting will “kick off the National Environmental Policy Act” process, which the […]
East Hartford Development Director Eileen Buckheit said there’s interest from Parker Benjamin Inc., out of Unionville, and New York-based Vessel Technologies Inc.. Both responded to bids put out by the town for the renovation project. Town officials have not yet met with the teams, Buckheit said, but each submitted very different proposals for the property. […]
Construction of the 100-unit apartment complex at the site of the former Strand Theater in New Britain has officially kicked off following a ceremony this week. City officials joined New York Developer Avner Krohn on Tuesday for a groundbreaking of The Strand, a six-story, roughly 86,000-square-foot mixed-use apartment building at 157 Main St. In addition […]
After years of work and getting its necessary approvals in place over the summer, the Police Department Building Committee is nearing a construction date. In a recent update to the Town Council, members of the committee talked about finances, among other business: On Sept. 19, the Board of Selectmen approved nearly $360,000 to start construction […]
The UHL Fierce returned to State Pier with a second shipment of 318-foot blades from Denmark for the South Fork Wind project under development by the partnership of Eversource and Ørsted, but longshoremen weren’t unloading them on Wednesday. Instead, the members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1411 in New London were outside the gate […]
Having finished a $22 million, three-building apartment center on Broad Street this summer, city developer Robert Smith’s Metro Star Properties is starting construction of a $16 million two-building complex slated for nearby River Street this fall, he said Monday. Asbestos abatement continues and demolition will begin of an old downtown shopping center in October at […]
A key player in financing the housing boom, the Capital Region Development Authority, approved deals on more projects Tuesday that would create hundreds of new units, many in converted office space. The CRDA approved a $1.1 million low-interest loan to developer Simon Konover to convert office space on the building’s upper floors into 37 apartments, […]
Three businessmen from Massachusetts with longstanding ties have joined with a pair of Connecticut builders for an ambitious push to develop small industrial rental properties north of Hartford. The partners broke ground this year on a 19,800-square-foot industrial building on nearly 4.5 acres at 29 Moody Road, in Enfield. The $2.8 million project will offer […]
