After pushing the issue for more than a year, Gov. Ned Lamont is pulling the plug on his latest plan for truck-only tolls after the state legislature repeatedly failed to vote on the issue. Lamont said he would instead use state borrowing to increase investment in transportation, which he noted would be paid for 100% […]
According to a press release from First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick, the project will cost a total of $7.4 million but $3.33 million will be funded through a grant from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Developments’ (US HUD) Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery. The release said the project will project the […]
The Town’s Planning and Development Director Jon Reiner said an interview committee has recommended DonMar Development Corporation of North Haven as the “preferred developer” for the site, but the Town Council has not yet approved an agreement with the developer. “Although this plan is in the early stages, we would like to share with you our […]
The city has yet to strike a formal deal with an airline, despite negotiations last year between Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim’s administration, an unidentified carrier and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch a revived passenger service by 2021. In the meantime, however, one of Sikorsky’s two runways — 11-29 — is “at the end of […]
The developers who proposed a 75-acre solar project off Oil Mill Road that state officials rejected two years ago have asked the state to reconsider its decision. Originally proposed by Greenskies Clean Energy in 2018, the proposal’s application was denied by the state Siting Council after the town and Save the River-Save the Hills raised […]
Last summer, PURA commenced a review of United Illuminating Co. and Eversource’s performance during an emergency, defined as 10 percent or more of a company’s customers without power for 48 hours. Additionally, the study said it would consider possible updates to the “Make Safe” protocol, which requires that utility companies commit one crew to each […]
The lengthy legal battle delaying the East Windsor casino has caused the project to be scaled back to reflect the saturated gambling market in the region, Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, said. “Now that we’re seeing some stabilization, we’re refining the plans slightly,” he said. Another obstacle has been a local […]
The state Department of Transportation is giving Newington $2 million to fix critical issues and facilitate multimodal transportation along a 1.6-mile stretch of road, town engineer Gary Fuerstenberg told a few dozen people who attended a recent public information meeting on the Complete Streets Project. “We expect to increase the quality of life throughout the […]
The complete design set is now on file with the Board of Education’s facilities office, said Dietter, who chairs the building committee for the project. “We understand that we’re up to date and everything has been submitted at the appropriate timelines,” Dietter said. “We do anticipate that in June the work will be moving forward […]
Repairs to the 82-year-old bridge are set to begin on or about Feb. 27. That will include a new protective fence system ranging in height from 8 to 12 feet on the approach and main spans. Construction will be completed in three stages to maintain traffic flow and provide the contractor with space to complete […]
The state Department of Transportation has announced the start of construction in a $46 million rehabilitation of the Arrigoni Bridge. Construction work on the 72-year-old bridge is set to begin on or about Feb. 27. The Arrigoni Bridge, built between 1936 and 1938, was the largest and most expensive bridge in the state at the […]
Elected officials have been reluctant to relinquish public property, and question the financial information provided by Director of Administration Michael Handler, who heads SAMG. Handler said a private company can build and maintain schools for 70 percent less than the city. During the board discussions of the last few months, elected officials asked about SAMG’s […]
Waterbury lawmakers, even those who support truck-only tolls, are concerned about the number of gantries in the area. But there’s not much time left to negotiate. The House and the Senate have told their members to hold Feb. 18,19, and 20 as possible days for a vote on the measure. Lamont went on to explain […]
Not without warnings of financial gray clouds on the horizon, the Planning Board issued its final recommendation for a $48.2 million budget, with mold remediation and city and school infrastructure projects among the highest priorities. The budget recommendation now heads to the mayor’s office, who can increase or reduce the budget. The mayor will issue […]
Work at the so-called north campus, which eventually will be home to three magnet schools, could start as early as May if the current timeline holds. It is the first of a two-part, nearly $160 million overall public magnet school project that also involves an overhaul of Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School. A team of […]
Lamont announced Eversource and its Denmark-based partner, Ørsted North America, will transform New London into the green energy capital of the Northeast as part of a deal unanimously ratified by the Connecticut Port Authority’s oversight board. “Economic growth has remained a top priority throughout my administration, and this agreement paves the way for a surge […]
The vote took place at a special meeting Tuesday. At a news conference later in the day, Gov. Ned Lamont and the principals involved in negotiating the public-private redevelopment said it sets up New London and the state of Connecticut as key players in the burgeoning offshore wind industry in the Northeast and would help […]
2019 was the seventh straight year of passenger gains at Bradley, said Kevin A. Dillon, CEO of the Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees Bradley. Bradley has taken steps toward starting construction this year on its long-awaited ground transportation center, a $210 million project. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking in July. That followed […]
Farmington developer Prospect Enterprises LLC acquired South Windsor’s Geissler’s plaza almost a decade ago with aspirations of recasting the property into a mixed-use development. Now, after a wave of support from residents and town officials, Prospect is eyeing a $30-million investment to expand and modernize the popular Geissler’s Supermarket and add new apartment buildings at […]
Twelve years after the Boombridge Road Bridge closed, a new bridge is set to be built. The defunct bridge, which connects the town with Westerly, was built in the 1960s. The primary reason it took so long to begin construction is because the bridge is owned by both towns, and both Connecticut and Rhode Island […]
In January, the Representative Town Meeting approved $2.47 million to replace the bridge. The project is eligible for funding under the state local bridge program, which allows a 50 percent reimbursement. “Back in 2016 the Connecticut DOT decided to go out for the first time in about 20 years and do a screening for all […]
Dylan’s father, 42-year-old Colchester resident Ronald Crabb, was among six people killed on Feb. 7, 2010, a Super Bowl Sunday, when there was a massive explosion at the River Road power plant. The blast came as “gas blows” — which force natural gas through pipelines at extreme high pressure — were used to clean pipelines […]
Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed borrowing $45 million to launch a transit-oriented development authority that still lacks an oversight board and that he and lawmakers effectively opted not to fund eight months ago. The governor and Democratic-majority legislature created the authority last June to stimulate commercial and housing development in urban downtown areas or within […]
Frank Manafort, of Manafort Brothers Inc., died on Sunday at the age of 78 in Florida. Manafort was born and raised in New Britain, the son of Frank and Ida Manafort. His father was one of the owners of Manafort Brothers, a well-known construction company based in Plainville. Manafort worked in the Plainville office from […]
The $22.3 billion budget’s capital plan earmarks $27.5 million in the current fiscal year and the next to renovate and improve the 16,000-seat arena. Both chambers of the General Assembly and the State Bond Commission would need to approve the proposed borrowing for the venue. In recent years, the quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) […]
Lamont now is recommending $2.5 billion in new borrowing for the fiscal year than ends June 30, and $2.61 billion for 2020-21. At issue is a subset of those proposals, about $1.4 billion each year in general obligation (G.O.) bonding. This involves borrowing which, if approved, would have to be paid off out of the […]
The Democratic governor is seeking $300 million in bonding for affordable housing construction, sources said, but roughly 40 percent of that involves previously approved financing for housing that was never spent. “We are going to continue to grow and expand on that,” Lamont said Monday when asked about his plans for affordable housing funding. “Housing […]
Developer Ron Lyman, of Sam Center LLC/REL Inc., filed the lawsuit in November just weeks after the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously denied his application for a special permit and site plan approval to allow construction of a four-story, 126-room hotel and 5,660-square-foot restaurant on the east side of Silas Deane Highway adjacent to […]
At an event Monday in Bridgeport, Lamont said that aside from the transportation plan that he announced last year and is still trying to pass, he has no plans to increase spending, decrease taxes, or to announce any other sweeping new policies in 2020. Lamont said there’s a very strict spending cap in place and […]
Lamont then clarified he was referring to the downtown train station on Water Street. “Right now our plan is to look at existing stations,” he said, adding later: “I want to make sure existing stations are up to speed, state of the art.” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced $2.75 million for the design in 2014 […]
The city will be giving Tabacco & Son Builders Inc. a tax abatement for buying 126 Burlington Ave. It formerly housed the Mastrobattisto Inc. construction company. The City Council at its January meeting approved the five-year, 80% property tax abatement for Tabacco. While the city will not be getting that tax revenue, it “will benefit […]
Spinnaker co-partner Matthew Edvardsen said his firm is now designing plans to renovate the offices formerly housing the state attorney general, comptroller and treasurer for hotel, office and retail use. It’s also looking to build a mixed-use development across the parking lots with offices, shops, restaurants and housing in a project aimed at linking downtown […]
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is blaming New England’s regional power grid for continued high electric rates in the state, saying ISO-New England failed to follow a competitive bidding process as is required law. “Connecticut is plagued with some of the highest energy costs in the nation, and families and businesses simply cannot afford these […]
The Acadia report also says emissions from the plants covered by RGGI are down 47% – outpacing the rest of the nation by 90%. The gross domestic product of the RGGI states, all in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, also grew by 47% – again outpacing the rest of the country, which grew by 31%. […]
An ambitious planned $200 million redevelopment of Dixwell Plaza would bring a new performing arts center, banquet hall, grocery store, museum, office complex, daycare center, retail storefronts, and 150-plus apartments and townhouses to the neighborhood’s fraying commercial hub. The local team behind the project received nothing but praise from longtime community members who heralded developers […]
Democratic legislative leaders informed the office of Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday that there will be no vote on a truck tolls bill before the General Assembly convenes its regular session Wednesday, despite assurances each chamber has sufficient votes for passage, said Max Reiss, the governor’s communications director. House-Senate deadlock prompts postponement of tolls vote
The fourth quarter of 2019 provided little in the way of surprises when it came to OSHA fines. There were no massive penalties, at least when compared to previous quarters, but the usual suspects — fall and excavation hazards — made appearances once again. Falls lead the agency’s Fatal Four list, which, along with struck-by, […]
The presidents of the Motor Transport Association of Connecticut and the Connecticut Construction Industries Association both questioned if that could be done. Joe Sculley, president of MTAC, said it is highly unlikely, and Don Shubert, president of CCIA, said it is hard to judge without funding and project schedules for each proposed bridge improvement project. […]
For sometime, the city and Yale University officials have hoped that Carter Winstanley would come through to help fill the gap in laboratory space needed in New Haven for new research companies that are now at capacity or soon will be as the life sciences sector continues to grow in New Haven. The city, in […]
Residents narrowly approved a proposal to sell the existing Town Hall to a Bristol developer for $316,000. Town officials said they had hoped for a higher offer. Bristol developer John Calciano presented his offer late last year. Eventually, the town council accepted a proposal to build a new town hall/police headquarters inside a mixed-use community […]
The little we know about this pending deal is all that David Kooris, Lamont’s puppet chairman of the port authority, seated by the governor after leaving state employment, with an interim appointment due to expire before lawmakers can review it, has agreed to disclose. Kooris said after a board meeting last week — in which […]
The former owner of Plainville’s Ferguson Electric and Ferguson Mechanical Co. Inc. will spend 20 months in federal prison for bilking more than $3.3 million from his 300-plus employees, prosecutors say. Lee Furguson, 62, of Farmington, was also sentenced Monday in Hartford federal court to one year of supervised release and ordered to pay a […]
The project would eliminate the northbound right-turn lane on Hope Street at Glenbrook Road, instead creating more green space. Cars would still be able to make the right turn, but the intersection would be narrower. The idea is that eliminating the right-turn lane, described as a “slip lane” since cars do not have to slow […]
“The facility will be home to our Division I men’s and women’s hockey programs, our nationally ranked figure skating team and our men’s club ice hockey team. It is the continuation of a robust, multi-year building and expansion program reflecting our significant growth, appeal and national status,” SHU President John J. Petillo said in the […]
Mohawk Northeast Inc., a heavy civil construction and engineering company that operates a marine services division in Groton, is contemplating an ambitious expansion project in New London that would boost use of the city’s waterfront. Under plans in the early conceptual stage, Mohawk imagines a bulkhead to expand use of the shoreline, a staging area, […]
Democratic lawmakers were expected to finish drafting the 10 year, $19 billion transportation plan Friday before sending it for a public hearing next week. Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, who co-chairs the Transportation Committee, said they hope to bring it to a public hearing next week and then for a vote before the 2020 session […]
Woodridge Lake Sewer District in Goshen has turned to Litchfield’s Water Pollution Control Authority after a plan to send its wastewater to Torrington fell through last year. WLSD has been under a state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection order to upgrade its own wastewater treatment facility, but two options for upgrades estimated at $31.5 […]
Congress approved nearly $72.3 million to build a new pier at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, but the money may be snatched away to help build President Donald Trump’s wall along the Rio Grande. But because Congress only approved about $1.4 billion for the border wall project, Trump is preparing to divert $7.2 billion in […]
Residents packed the meeting room at Southington Public Library to capacity Thursday as they heard explanations of what either an expanded library facility or a new building would bring to the town. These residents got a look at the library’s priorities for a new or expanded library and how space would be allocated and then […]
ndiana developer Scannell Properties is currently building the $50-million, 421,000-square-foot distribution facility on vacant land in South Windsor that will be leased long term by Home Depot upon completion, sources confirmed to HBJ. The combined 46-acre property is officially located at 360 Ellington Road, 245 Chapel Road and R008 John Fitch Boulevard. Construction crews broke […]
The proposal aims to bring two full-service residential buildings to a 2.8-acre parcel at 23 Factory St. It would feature 203 one- and two-bedroom apartments with various amenities, including a pool, health club, library, dog-walking and grooming services, fire pits, bike racks, indoor golf simulator and community spaces. The project would be complemented by 8,500 […]
The result is a substantially modified agreement between offshore wind developers Ørsted-Eversource, the Connecticut Port Authority and State Pier operator Gateway that likely will cost more than the $93 million originally projected. Ørsted-Eversource are seeking to use the pier in conjunction with their Revolution Wind Farm in federal waters south of Martha’s Vineyard, which will […]
Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday submitted their final revisions to the Legislative Commissioners Office to be drafted for a public hearing next week. There will be a five-day public notice period before a public hearing is held, according to the rules of the General Assembly. No final bill has been drafted yet, […]
The agreement, signed in late December, lays out various economic, local hiring and affordable-housing requirements that Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, of South Norwalk, and Hartford’s Freeman Cos., must adhere to in constructing two buildings worth $26 million on a pair of vacant, city-owned properties just south of downtown, officials say. Plans show the two buildings […]
“Our work on campus involves modernizing, upgrading, and, in some cases, expanding our core academic centers. These facilities will be transformed into spaces where courageous faculty and students can activate their ideas to make a difference in the world,” said President Michael Roth ’78. “We are taking steps now to ensure Wesleyan is a high-impact […]
CCM is recommending state legislators adopt a bipartisan transportation financing plan as part of its legislative agenda for the 2020 General Assembly session that opens on Feb. 5. “This plan must identify and allocate appropriate resources which may include the establishment of limited tolling and will enable the state to leverage all available federal funding […]
The district is planning to demolish Cloonan Middle School and build a new school on the property to house both Cloonan Middle School and Roxbury Elementary School, which will move from its current location. https://www.ctinsider.com/local/stamfordadvocate/article/Stamford-on-forefront-of-public-private-14984843.php?cmpid=gsa-stamfordadvocate-result&_ga=2.194238637.1057016774.1579519059-1033831744.1572817739#photo-18787122
TDF Enterprises LLC, the owner of a 39-acre parcel of vacant land in the Greenbriar development, is proposing to build a 120-unit apartment complex for individuals 55 years old and older. The apartments would feature mostly one- and two-bedroom units in four buildings on two different parts of the property – two buildings accessed from […]
The state’s commissioner of energy and environmental protection said Wednesday that Connecticut is being forced to invest in natural gas plants it doesn’t want or need. “We are at the mercy of a regional capacity market that is driving investment in more natural gas and fossil fuel power plants that we don’t want and we […]
The City Council Tuesday night approved a proposal to redevelop the Sessions building into market rate apartments, through a public-private partnership between Vesta Corp. and the Bristol Housing Authority. Vesta/BHA Joint Venture will be working together to clean up contamination and redevelop the property at 273 Riverside Ave. http://www.bristolpress.com/BP-Bristol+News/364920/city-council-approves-redevelopment-of-sessions-building
“Most of the rooms are in; the drywall is in. And the lockers for the Police Department are in as well,” Cox said. In addition to combining all town offices in the new building and relocating the Police Department to more spacious quarters, the building will serve as the home to the Board of Education. […]
About 20 residents, including some from other towns like Mystic and Ashford, spoke out against the project, said Jason Anderson, the town council president. The Killingly Energy Center has already received the approvals it needs from the town’s planning, zoning, and inland wetland commissions. The state Siting Council denied the project once but last June […]
The new building, approximately 48,000 square-foot, will sit at the corner of Maple Street and South Avenue, location of the current library. Officials said the design “will reflect New Canaan’s unique mid-century modern architectural heritage. Designed to be a true cultural campus, it will replace the current outdated and failing structure with a large, airy, […]
Gov. Ned Lamont’s push to get the General Assembly’s approval for tolls began last January, but has failed to be called for a vote since then. When the legislative session ended last spring, the administration aimed to generate support over the summer and bring it across the finish line during the fall, after municipal elections. […]
Votes will be cast for the first time Tuesday night on whether to fund the city administration’s plans to rebuild five Stamford public schools by 2024 using a public-private partnership model, in which private contractors would construct and maintain new school buildings. Under the proposed plan, the city would sell its school land for the […]
Randy Salvatore, founder and CEO of Stamford-based RMS Cos., said he plans to break ground this spring on the DoNo development, a roughly $200-million project expected to bring between 800 to 1,000 new apartments, 30,000 square feet of retail space and a supermarket to the Capital City’s North End. The addition of a supermarket has […]
The state transportation department would have the power to raise toll rates, starting in 2024, based on a working draft of a truck-only tolls bill that lawmakers plan to vote on next week. Estimates of how much the state would collect from truck-only tolls have ranged from $150 million to $200 million a year. The […]
The Siting Council, which has jurisdiction over approving proposed solar projects in Connecticut, approved the project after solar developer James Schwartz of Cobb Road LLC, an affiliate of the Essex-based Independence Solar, submitted a petition requesting a declaratory ruling from the council in October. Schwartz told The Day in November that Cobb Road LLC has […]
A list of projects on the state’s website for CT2030, which is Gov. Ned Lamont’s transportation plan for the next 10 years, says the Route 8 and Interstate 84 interchange reboot will cost $235 million to $260 million. Project overseers say added costs are typical of a rehabilitation project, as discoveries of additional needs are […]
During a late afternoon forum in Bedford Middle School, Lamont stressed the need to persuade the Democrat-dominated General Assembly to approve — over unified Republican opposition — his 10-year, $19 billion transit improvement plan, for a variety of economic reasons. “These are all about good-paying jobs,” Lamont told a crowd of about 400 during a […]
The new design allows for 16,800 square feet, down from the 19,500 square feet the committee recommended to the Board of Selectmen on Dec. 16. The larger building was expected to cost around $16 million, which the selectmen nixed, tasking the committee to come in with a proposal for $14 million. The present station measures […]
In a 36-page decision issued Wednesday, Judge Marshall Berger found that the East Windsor Planning and Zoning Commission “abused its discretion” in approving a site plan and granting a special permit “as to the sale of alcohol,” and lacked jurisdiction to consider the sale of alcohol because it failed to properly publish notice of public […]
An inspection of the bridge found it to be in poor condition because of a deteriorated deck. DOT said work on the $7.3 million project will begin “on or about Jan. 23.” Work to remove the existing bridge – and the replacement of a new one – will require a closure and detour for Beachside […]
Construction economists are not sugarcoating their outlook on the industry in 2020. “Total growth in nonresidential construction spending, as reported by the Census Bureau’s monthly ‘value put in place’ series, will be close to the 2.2 percent increase recorded year-to-date for the first 10 months of 2019 compared to January-October 2018,” he said. “The best-performing […]
Today their firm, Gottfried & Somberg, has grown to 20 employees across three adjacent offices on Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury, and more than $900 million in assets under management. Next year, they’ll have a brand new, bigger home office. The two owners won local approval last month to demolish those three buildings — all former […]
With some reluctance the Board of Finance unanimously approved a $62,000 appropriation for the replacement of the Cavalry Road Bridge over the West Branch of Saugatuck River on Wednesday. The funds were previously the cause of slight controversy due to the towns debating over how the remaining 20 percent of the bridge’s total cost — […]
The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority is asking its 51 member towns to commit to new 30-year contracts for waste disposal by June 1 so it can finance the $330 million cost to renovate the failing trash-to-energy plant. The plant burns a third of Connecticut’s refuse and turns it into electricity. MIRA needs most of […]
With few caveats, House Democratic leaders said they could pass a downsized plan that would raise about $170 million in net revenue annually, a drop from the earlier financial projections of $187 million for a broader plan that included medium-sized trucks. By exempting all but the largest commercial trucks, the legislators and Gov. Ned Lamont […]
Both the Wheeler School renovation and the phosphorus reduction upgrades to the town’s waste water treatment plant, projects which began in 2017, are expected to wrap up this spring, said Town Manager Robert E. Lee. Both projects are expected to be completed ahead of schedule and under budget. The town will also begin its second […]
After nearly a year of heated debates over highway tolls, House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz said Tuesday he is “very comfortable” there are enough Democratic votes in the state House of Representatives to pass Gov. Ned Lamont’s latest truck-only tolls plan in a special session later this month. But the situation was murkier in the state […]
Residents at a town meeting Monday voted 136-15 to approve an additional $616,163 to rebuild the outdoor track and football field complex at the high school. The new facility is expected to be ready for the 2020-21 school year, according to Superintendent Jay Hartling, and the field would also be available for graduation in June. […]
Two of the Superfund projects are in Connecticut: One in Durham and one in Waterbury. The accumulation of Superfund projects that are ready to go except for money comes as the Trump administration routinely proposes funding cuts for Superfund and for the EPA in general. The four-decade-old Superfund program is meant to tackle some of […]
According to an official local economic statement put together by Piscitelli and his staff in anticipation of the city’s latest bond refunding, private developers completed or began construction on over 1,655 new market-rate housing units in New Haven in 2019. The report states that another 1,937 market-rate units were also in the works as of […]
A leaked email from a pro-tolls group with the subject line, “TOP SECRET & URGENT: Gov. Lamont Needs YOU in Westport, Tues. Jan. 7,” was circulated Saturday. It asked supporters of tolls to “show up in force.” Haskell said he never finalized the event and can’t speculate about why the group sent it. If he […]
Middletown’s Wesleyan University is planning a $75-million bond offering that will help fund major campus upgrades to its art, social science, and science academic buildings, officials said. Wesleyan’s Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer and Treasurer Andrew Tanaka said borrowing now will allow Wesleyan to take advantage of historically low interest rates as the […]
The Environmental Protection Agency said the plan proposed by the utility’s construction manager to remediate PCBs in the old paint doesn’t meet the EPA’s standards, according to Mark Biron, Groton Utilities general manager of operations for water and electric. Construction has been ongoing on the upgrade project to repurpose the water treatment plant, built in 1939 and […]
Rhode Island is trying once again to keep a trucking industry lawsuit that could tear down the state’s truck toll system out of federal court. At issue in the appeal is whether truck tolls are a user fee or a tax. The Tax Injunction Act bars federal courts from blocking state taxes. U.S. District Court […]
Nine months after fire destroyed a much-anticipated addition to Milford’s Silver Sands State Park, construction crews are back at work to replace it. The buildings, which included concessions, a bathroom and changing area, elevated outdoor seating, and a lifeguard office, were supposed to open last Memorial Day weekend. Work Restarts on Silver Sands Construction Project […]
A portion of Route 32 just south of Falvey’s Motors will be closed for about two weeks beginning Monday to allow construction crews to replace a failing corrugated metal pipe and make drainage repairs, the state Department of Transportation announced. The $500,000 project involves removing and replacing the existing 43-inch pipe and concrete endwalls and […]
A worker was hospitalized Monday morning after he fell while working at a High Street construction site, fire officials said. Firefighters responded to the scene of the accident at a 18 High St. Monday morning, said Rick Fontana, director of emergency operations. Fontana said the condition of the worker does not appear life threatening. Deputy […]
A Cheshire-based property management firm has acquired a three-story, retail-office building in downtown New Britain for $890,000, land records show. Glenstone plans to convert the two vacant upper floors into approximately 22 apartment units to meet the growing demand for living spaces downtown, according to Farmington broker Amodio & Co. Real Estate. The deal comes […]
State employees started relocating just after Thanksgiving, and by the end of January, the building will become the workplace for about 700. The renovated space will primarily be the domain of the state’s constitutional officers, including the attorney general, comptroller, treasurer and secretary of the state. The structure also will house the state auditors and […]
Joseph Giulietti is finishing his first year as commissioner of the state Department of Transportation. As for new rail cars, the additional 66 M8 cars that were to be delivered this year “are running a bit late,” but he called the M8s a tremendous success. Those M8 cars were supposed to also run on Shore […]
Sometime within the next two months, the city will officially begin seeking developers for a roughly 160-acre parcel straddling its border with Naugatuck. Mackenzie Demac, chief of staff to Mayor Neil M. O’Leary, said the city will release a request-for-proposal within 60 days. City officials are looking for job creation and future taxes. Ideally, they’re […]
A new traffic island between Union Street and City Hill Street was built closer to North Main Street than the old one. The new location of the island changed traffic flow for drivers turning left from Union Street onto City Hill Street. Previously, drivers turned before the island, now they turn onto City Hill Street […]
A grant through the state Department of Transportation will provide the town with $1.2 million to construct the bridge. The town is paying $188,125 to design the new bridge and that work is about 30 percent complete. Closing the road also allows construction crews to more easily bring in the crane that will put the […]
Hartford finds another monumental task in its way: a crumbling piece of 20th-century infrastructure, a stretch of the Interstate 84 viaduct adjacent to downtown that is well past its expiration date. Completed in 1965, the elevated thoroughfare was part of the national urban-renewal campaign to ram freeways through downtowns, and it did extraordinary damage to […]
Regardless, most of these towns are still moving forward with transit-oriented development plans, hoping that stations or platforms will one day be built in their backyards. “We’re actually doing things,” said Chris Bromson, town manager of Enfield, which plans to spend up to $4.2 million for a train platform if state funding for a $50-million […]
Development there has been especially difficult because of potential impacts to an underground levee system that curbs the level of riverfront flooding on what is widely considered the narrowest part of the Connecticut River. There is also uncertainty about how utilities, supplies for vendors, emergency services and handicap ramps would make their way down to […]
Niznick, a Las Vegas multimillionaire with few ties to Connecticut, isn’t just a dreamer with a grand vision. Since 2010, he’s already invested $25 million of his own money to renovate and rebrand the former Clarion Hotel at 42 Century Drive into a 141-room DoubleTree by Hilton. He plans to invest another $20 million to […]
Looney embraced Lamont’s latest plan to fund the 10-year transportation plan — now pegged at $19 billion — with the trucks-only tolls on bridges. He argued that a constitutional amendment created a transportation “lockbox” can provide the guarantee needed for toll receipts to be spent as promised. Fasano said he agrees with the goal of […]
A spokesman for Lamont said the administration still views the train stations as a critical investment, but stopped short of guaranteeing funding for them under the trucks-only tolls plan. Lawmakers could vote on that plan in January during a special session. Regardless, most of these towns are still moving forward with transit-oriented development plans, hoping […]
Amid all that earnest activity, however, the nagging question remains: what to do with the two-mile section of I-84 just outside downtown, which in an ironic reference to past glory is known as the Aetna Viaduct. Its projected lifespan ended in 2005, and engineers are now worried about catastrophic failure. Replacement options under consideration include […]
President Trump has signed a $1.4-trillion, two-bill spending package that will keep federal agencies, including their construction programs, operating through Sept. 30. 2020, the end of the current fiscal year. The spending picture was mixed for infrastructure accounts: some, like Army Corps of Engineers civil works, received boosts over their 2019 levels, but others, like […]
Though less dramatic, these more modest projects showed encouraging potential in reshaping the city for the future as it enters the 2020s. The city government has doled out generous tax deals to many of those projects, one of its only avenues to spur development in the wake of its 2017 budget crisis. While the city […]
Norwich Public Utilities hopes it has developed a plan to upgrade the city’s nearly 100-year-old sewage treatment system that continues to pollute Norwich Harbor and the Thames River when heavy rains overwhelm the system. NPU officials presented the new proposal to the Board of Public Utilities Commissioners on Thursday and will meet with DEEP officials […]
Construction crews are in the midst of a $135 million infrastructure project that will complete reconstruction of the final mile of a section of the New England Thruway (I-95) that carries traffic from New York City to the Connecticut border. Construction is expected to be completed in 2021. “After years of discussions and planning, we […]
The commission unanimously approved $750,000 Wednesday, adding to a previously-approved $700,000. The money will go toward a variety of upgrades needed at closed landfills in Hartford, Ellington, Waterbury, Wallingford, and Shelton. Included in the project is work at two homes near the Ellington landfill, where PFAS chemicals have leached into the drinking water. Work in […]
The POCD “is the plan for our town,” Williams said by phone Thursday. “And residents should be pulled in to have their opinion heard.” As part of the efforts of the subcommittee, composed of about a half-dozen members and formed earlier this year, Williams said the group recently held a workshop advising the town’s boards […]
A survey sponsored by Autodesk and the Associated General Contractors of America found that 80% of contractors were having difficulty finding enough qualified craft workers. It stands to reason, then, since subcontractors provide so much of the labor on construction projects, that it has become trickier for many general contractors to find enough quality subs […]
