Geballe, the commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services and the state’s chief operating officer, said Tuesday he has accepted “a dream job” at Yale overseeing a new innovation and entrepreneurial program. Lamont named Michelle Gilman, who is currently the deputy to Geballe, as the new commissioner of administrative services, a key post as the […]
The $50 million renovation project, which began in July 2021, will be completed with reimbursed funding by the state and is slated to continue throughout the winter. The renovation project is being led by a team from Newfield Construction. When completed, the building will include an updated security system, specialized rooms and services for hearing […]
Affordable housing, traffic and pedestrian safety top the list of concerns around a proposed development on the Strouse Adler property tied to a zone change in Wooster Square. PMC Property Group wants to construct a 13-story apartment tower, after the zone change, by dividing the 78 Olive St. site fronting on Chapel Street and building […]
President Joe Biden urged U.S. governors on Monday to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolled out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal. The book is meant to level the playing field by making it easier for smaller cities, tribal leaders, nonprofits and faith-based […]
The estimated cost to build a new middle and high school has risen dramatically — up almost 46 percent from what was approved last year. City Council is expected to consider on Tuesday a new request to borrow $144.5 million for the career academy, compared to the $99 million approved last April. The city hopes […]
The site of the former Allingtown library on Forest Road was sold to a developer in July 2020, a controversial move that some in the neighborhood claimed was a decision that disadvantaged the working-class neighbors of the area — who used the building as a community space for seniors and youth — as a means […]
State officials selected the Pratt Street brownfield project for a $1.8 million cleanup grant because of its potential for economic development in a transit-oriented district, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz said Monday. Bysiewicz told the group 30,000 people have moved into the state since the start of the pandemic, adding she feels Meriden is an attractive […]
The town of Windsor recently signed off on a $2.5 million state grant request, seeking support for a private redevelopment of a downtown strip mall into 100 apartments and ground-floor retail. It is one of 52 applications submitted to the state’s new Connecticut Communities Challenge Grant program ahead of the Jan. 14 deadline. Announced in […]
The commission voted unanimously to approve the $40 million plan by New Jersey developer OneKey Inc. to create 146 apartments and a 3,879-square-foot restaurant or café following an online public hearing on the project Thursday. The vacant complex at 555 and 575 Norwich Ave. and Route 97 formerly housed Central Sports and Amazing Furniture. OneKey […]
After failing to make Connecticut’s school construction priority list in December, which would ensure the state covers the bulk of the building costs, a group of state lawmakers added Bassick back. As reported earlier this month, the already delayed, $129 million effort to relocate the aged Bassick from the West End to a new South […]
Nearly three months after President Joe Biden signed a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, federal transportation officials say much of their work is on hold – stuck in limbo as a result of an unresolved congressional fight over federal spending. Some states, meanwhile, are putting off projects until Congress approves $9 billion in […]
COVID-related production slowdowns and snarls in the global supply chain have delayed building projects, added costs and increased risk. There is disagreement among some Connecticut residential developers — both apartment and single-family homebuilders — as to the impact on project volume. Santini said developers who have launched projects are finishing them. But he expects some […]
In its latest construction hiring survey, the AGC found that 74 percent of more than 1,000 member firms plan to add to their payroll in 2022. And three quarters of the civil contractors and engineers who responded to a recent quarterly survey by a Dodge Construction Network partnership are upbeat about their workload this year […]
Architects from Kaestle Boos Associates presented two concept designs on Wednesday to members of the Norwalk BOE Facilities committee and the Common Council’s Land Use and Building Management committee, breaking down the cost, time and challenges presented by each scenario. The first design, Option A, would use a phased approach. The estimated cost for Option […]
A novel plan for a $99 million high school and middle school in a sprawling westside office complex was unanimously approved by the Zoning Commission, clearing the way for City Hall to finalize a reimbursement commitment with the state. The career academy, which would be the first condominium-style public school in Connecticut, is expected to […]
It turns out, according to numerous national news stories published in 2018, including in The Washington Post and Newsweek, Rubler is friends with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who once intervened to keep some negative stories about Rubler’s company out of Kushner’s newspaper, The New York Observer. One of them was about Rubler being named […]
More than two years after picking the developer to revitalize a section of Broad Street, Manchester officials announced this week they have ceased its partnership with Manchester Parkade 1. The massive project on the former parkade site was expected to break ground on initial construction this spring, but town officials will now go back to […]
State and local officials gathered at Harbor Park Wednesday to announce a more than $40 million project to improve the city’s Route 17 on-ramp to Route 9 that will likely be federally funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. DOT officials confirmed that the Route 17 stop-controlled on-ramp to Route 9 is among the top 10 […]
Representing the city that is most like New Haven, Christopher Gomez, White Plains’ commissioner of planning, said it was up to the residents how much they were willing to dream. Jeanet Owens, senior executive officer for project management and regional rail at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the goal for Los Angeles […]
The West Hartford Town Council gave a unanimous vote of approval to a project that will transform a key corner at the gateway to West Hartford Center, replacing two outdated and functionally obsolete office buildings with a mixed-use residential and commercial building that will will include 48 apartments and support the concept of “new urbanism.” […]
The governor’s change of heart when it comes to who will fund air quality upgrades in schools comes a day after our Accountability Project revealed that nearly a third of Connecticut school districts report not having enough money to upgrade the air quality in their schools. One out of every 5 schools also does not […]
Wharton Industrial’s plans for 112 acres just south of I-84 at Exit 9 call for a warehouse building that would be the size of eight acres, along with 75 truck docks, 50 trailer spaces, and 360 parking spaces. The commission will consider only Wharton’s request to build a driveway over a wetland, and other aspects […]
The Bluewater Property Group was selected from a request for proposal process launched last July, said Thomas Hyde, chief executive officer of Naugatuck Valley Regional Development Corp., which is representing the two communities in the process. The selection of Bluewater Property Group and its involvement with Amazon was announced Tuesday morning at Waterbury City Hall […]
Funding for the construction of a new Westhill High School and a building to house an expanded pre-kindergarten program made it through another step Tuesday morning after a state subcommittee voted to approve them. Both Stamford projects would be reimbursed 20 percent of the overall cost of the work, but Stamford officials have said that’s […]
Torrington Middle/High School will be built the way city residents want after they approved a $20 million expansion in a second referendum Tuesday at City Hall, the lone polling place. The expansion, which raises the project’s total cost to $179.5 million, passed 828-301. Residents initially approved the grade 7-12 school project at $159.5 million in […]
The Torrington School Building Committee is hoping voters on Tuesday will approve borrowing an additional $20 million for the middle-high school building project, which was approved for $159 million in 2021. The referendum question reads: “Shall the City of Torrington appropriate an additional $20,000,000 (thereby increasing the appropriation and bond authorization approved by the voters […]
Developer Tony Valenti of Newport Realty, who is building apartments in Berlin and age-restricted condos in Plainville this year, said demand for new residential projects is intense. Developer Avner Krohn, who has more than 700 new apartments across the region in planning or under construction, suggested that people who are spending more time at home […]
The reason for celebration was two new large allocations of federal money towards boosting business at New Haven’s ports, and towards protecting the city’s waterfront Long Wharf neighborhood from sea level rise, flooding, and storm surges, all of which are likely to take place more frequently and intensely in the coming decades thanks to manmade […]
Despite supply-chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the $15.3 million renovation of Hinsdale School should be completed by the time students return for the start of the school year at the end of August. The target to finish is mid to late July, giving staff and hired movers roughly a month to get all […]
The Capital Region Development Authority Board of Directors approved $8.5 million in loans to three Hartford redevelopments Thursday, with the bulk of the money going to projects in the city’s Parkville neighborhood. Developer Carlos Mouta is at the head of two projects receiving $7.5 million in financing. The board approved a $4 million loan toward […]
The Connecticut Department of Transportation presented its State Routes 69 and 72 intersection improvement plan before the Bristol Board of Public Works Thursday, a project slated to cost around $7,700,000. Project Designer Jared Hendrickson introduced concerns with the current intersection’s layout by saying the intersection of Landry, Park and Divinity streets were in close proximity […]
An upgraded library, school construction and additional residential housing are coming to the Danbury area in 2022. Several communities are working on renovating or building schools due to enrollment increases or outdated facilities. There could even be an Amazon grocery store coming to one town. Danbury is planning for its $99 million career academy, which […]
A South Windsor resident filed an application with the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 11 asking for a one-year moratorium on any warehouse or distribution center proposals. Kathryn Kerrigan of Main Street said she filed the application because the town needs time to update its zoning regulations and Plan of Conservation and Development […]
A Texas development company is looking to build a 264-unit apartment complex off West Street along with commercial spaces and amenities such as a clubhouse and park. Anthony Properties is looking for town zoning changes to allow the $54 million project to proceed. The company wants to build on three properties totaling 41 acres owned […]
Thirty-nine percent of families of construction workers in the U.S. are enrolled in at least one public safety net program such as Medicaid, according to a new report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center released this month. By comparison, 31% of workers across all industries have a family member enrolled in public assistance, Berkeley found. […]
Despite having a deepwater port uniquely suited to shipping assembled wind turbine components to sites off the East Coast and a manufacturing and technology capacity known worldwide, Connecticut is not yet poised to become a wind power hub in a $170 billion industry. If successfully launched, Connecticut’s wind power manufacturing industry will be a source […]
The largest amount, $160.3 million, will help to protect Long Wharf from flooding because of large storms and climate change. The city also will receive $63 million to complete the project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge and widen the harbor’s shipping channel to make it more navigable by large ships. The […]
School officials are looking at possibly spending at least $22 million to renovate Long Lots Elementary School or replacing the school entirely after a recent report presented to the Board of Education. Maintenance has been a continual issue at Long Lots. Collier launched its study after mold was detected last August through a Tools For […]
“It is beyond time to address the structural deficiencies, for sure,” said Priti Bhardwaj, the lead supervising engineer for a project with the Connecticut Department of Transportation. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the bridge’s condition-rating is a 4 out of 9. The rating is mainly for the northbound portion, which has outlived its design […]
Residents will be asked on Jan. 25 to approve borrowing an additional $20 million for the Torrington middle-high school building project, which was approved for $159 million in 2021. The referendum will be held at City Hall only, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters in November 2020 approved building a new middle-high school and […]
At the former site of a Stop & Shop opposite the Metro-North Noroton Heights station, a big new development is taking shape that will include a number of dining options familiar to people on both ends of the commute in Connecticut and New York City. Farther up the line in Norwalk, Building & Land Technology […]
The rails-to-trails line is complete from the southern end of town to Lazy Lane. The State Department of Transportation is ready to finish the trail from there to the Plainville town line, town officials said, but have been held up in talks with Yarde Metals over an easement across company property. Paul Chaplinsky, a Town […]
It’s a 7-acre plot of land that has been vacant for decades and was at one time composed of 24 different parcels, a mix of residences and businesses. Last week, the state announced New London was to receive $1.2 million for assessment and remediation of the property and to help defray construction costs associated with […]
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority formally launched the “Energy Storage Solutions” initiative on the first of the year, in partnership with the Connecticut Green Bank, which will administer the program, Eversource and UI. End users will be eligible to receive incentives for setting up power storage devices, which can help make the broader power grid […]
Spinnaker Real Estate Partners of Norwalk expects to begin a $63 million conversion of the historic, 1926 building at 55 Elm St. — once offices for the state attorney general and other Constitutional officers — by the end of March. Plans call for 160 apartments, co-working space and a restaurant for the structure that faces […]
he state Department of Transportation last week awarded an $18.7 million contract to a New Haven construction firm to build a new Main Street in downtown Derby. C.J. Fucci Inc. was awarded the job for the Route 34 widening project on Jan. 3. Construction is scheduled to start April 1, 2022, according to a DOT […]
The problematic climate future Tweed faces actually is possible along just about all of New Haven’s shoreline. Parts of that shoreline – including the Long Wharf area — were once under water and may be destined for it again as the entire area faces increased battering from ever more-intense and frequent storms and the highest […]
The efforts, which span at least seven federal agencies, could help fulfill President Joe Biden’s climate ambitions to decarbonize the power grid by 2035 and at least halve U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade. The initiatives are being unveiled as key elements of Biden’s climate agenda are stalled in the Senate. […]
Gotspace Data Partners LLC, a Boston-based company, is working to build two data center campuses in Wallingford. Each campus would have multiple buildings — with a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes that would generate upwards of $1.5 million per building annually for the town. All of the properties Gotspace is looking at are in the IX zone, which allows […]
The town has been working on multiple projects over the past few years with the goal of bringing more people into the area, improving the local economy and quality of life. Efforts range from improving the Shoreline Greenway Trail, which saw a 400-foot expansion in 2021, to working out how to create more open space […]
Planned developments range from car dealerships to restaurants to mixed-use projects, containing either live-work units — as approved for Oxford Street — or multi-floor structures with commercial space and apartments. These, along with the more than 450 new businesses that entered the city over the last year, will ease the tax burden on residents, she […]
Many construction jobs in Connecticut don’t pay enough to support a family, according to new research from the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “We want families to be able to survive on what they earn in their jobs,” said Ken Jacobs, one of the authors of the study. “This is a cost […]
The South Windsor Planning and Zoning Commission in a 4-3 vote Tuesday night rejected a zoning regulation change that would have allowed adding 165 units to the Tempo apartment complex at Evergreen Walk. Some commission members were concerned that approving the regulation change could set a precedent for other developers. Smith said a time window […]
A key vote Thursday has cleared the path for construction of a major hotel and residential development on the Fort Trumbull peninsula. The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site development plan and a special permit for Optimus Construction Management to build two four-story buildings — a 100-unit apartment complex and 100-unit extended stay hotel. […]
Berwick Associates LLC, who is developing the project, is seeking a zoning compliance from the Town Plan and Zoning Commission. Berwick is looking to construct a four-story, 45-foot structure with 13 studios, 18 one-bedroom and 12 two-bedrooms units. The developer is planning to set 30 percent of the units aside as affordable. The application has […]
“This bridge connects neighborhoods,” said Fair Haven Heights resident Ed Ozyck. “I think people have missed that tremendously. I’m really looking forward to the opening of it.” The bridge, which connects residents in Fair Haven to their neighbors in Fair Haven Heights, even got a makeover in the process, trading in its longtime basic black […]
Indicative of that optimistic outlook, AGC found 74% of firms intend to hire in 2022, despite supply chain challenges that are slowing project starts and previous labor shortages. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has played a large part in this confidence boost. Respondents were most optimistic about highway and bridge construction, with 63% […]
City officials are counting on state lawmakers to reauthorize tens of millions of dollars in reimbursement for the now more expensive project during the the Connecticut General Assembly’s upcoming session. But the simplest route to those funds — getting Bassick on the priority list of school construction projects issued in December — may be out […]
If all goes well, town officials say the long-awaited Clarke Business Park expansion project could be completed as early as next fall. Six months after securing state funding, Bethel’s Board of Finance voted Tuesday to approve the use of general fund money for the town’s contribution to the project — the cost of which is […]
State Department of Transportation crews will be widening the bridge that carries Route 9 North over Union Street to provide enough room for an adequate acceleration lane to replace the “stop-controlled” intersection approaching the highway, DOT Project Manager Salvatore Aresco said. That area has experienced a high number of motor vehicle crashes over the years. […]
As the town weighs whether to move forward with the project or seek a new developer, the Legislative Council has granted another contract extension to the Mutual Housing Association of South Central Connecticut, the local nonprofit slated to build 87 units on the site of Hamden’s abandoned middle school. But the contract’s expiration in July […]
One King LLC had a contract to be the preferred developer for One King Place, the site of the former Meriden-Wallingford Hospital, which has been vacant for 24 years. A similar agreement with One King to rehabilitate a former medical office building at 116 Cook Avenue has also ended. The contract for the hospital site […]
Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ plans for a dense redevelopment of a former state office property at 55 Elm Street in Hartford is advancing with praise from city staff. A master plan heading before the city’s Planning & Zoning Commission Tuesday details the size of residential buildings Spinnaker plans to add to the 3.2-acre property. This […]
An empty lot on 1.78 acres that is part of Science Park straddling the city’s Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods is slated to become a five-story apartment building with 176 apartments — 58 classified as “affordable” — and 88 parking spaces. The project along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail has been bouncing around City Hall for […]
The plan calls for the environmental clean-up, abatement, and redevelopment of New Britain’s Polar Building at 27 Columbus Blvd. and 43 High St., in order to make way for a mixed-income residential development with 62 rental units. The mayor’s office said all remediation work will be completed this year and demolition has already started on […]
Arconti, who co-chairs the committee, said that lawmakers will finalize the agenda over the next weeks before the Feb 9 start of session, but with a short election year calendar, he said he has several priorities of his own that he’d like to see addressed in the coming months. Arconti said the focus will be […]
The State Department of Transportation announced plans are being developed for traffic sign replacement and renumbering along Route 8 corridor. Plans are also being prepared to replace signs and complex sign supports along Route 8 in Bridgeport, Shelton, Derby and Naugatuck. Additionally, to be in conformance with federal standards, state transportation officials say mileage-based exit […]
Since the city began raising sections of Beach Street with the help of state bonding to prevent shoreline businesses from flooding, vacant storefronts in the area began to sell in a seeming chain reaction throughout the spring and summer of 2021. Other areas of the city have seen interest from developers, with at least one […]
Steven Ancona, president of Flatiron Real Estate Advisors in New York, has hired Kenneth Boroson Architects in New Haven to prepare plans for a 92-unit apartment and commercial complex at 289 Pratt St. The city received a $1.8 million brownfield grant to clean up the 14.3-acre vacant lot and a portion of 290 Pratt St. […]
Mattern Construction, based in Baltic, submitted the lone proposal to the city by last week’s deadline to rehabilitate the decaying, mold-infested former YMCA into a new headquarters for the general contracting and management company. The proposal includes a plan to lease space the company does not need to a possible brew pub or some residential […]
A 200-unit residential complex is under construction by RJ Development + Advisors on Howard Street where Hughie’s restaurant was once located, and the city has plans to build a $30 million community recreation center at Fort Trumbull. The plans by Massachusetts-based Optimus Senior Living Group are scheduled to come before the city’s Planning & Zoning […]
It’s been three years since the opening of the new police headquarters on Judd Avenue, and the town is finally moving onto the final phase of its police station project. A water leak issue in the new station’s firing range had been stalling the project’s completion, but First Selectman Matt Knickerbocker said this week that […]
Just a few days after the City Council Monday approved a 12-year tax break for the Christoph family’s latest proposed addition to the waterfront East Side property — as many as 1,500 high-end market rate apartments — that project received nearly $1 million from the state. On Thursday Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration announced it was […]
The Metropolitan District (MDC) announced that the South Hartford Conveyance and Storage Tunnel (SHCST) reached a major milestone on Tuesday, January 4 when the tunnel boring machine (TBM) “Iris” reached its destination at the MDC’s retrieval facility located on Talcott Road in West Hartford. The SHCST is a four-mile long deep rock tunnel designed to […]
Plans for the school’s development are moving swiftly through the approval process, having already received a green light from the boards of education and estimate and taxation, as well as one of the Common Council’s committees. On Monday, the Board of Estimate and Taxation approved the reappropriation of about $76 million to go toward the […]
New London will receive nearly $1.2 million in state support toward the $30 million regional community recreation center planned for Fort Trumbull. The funding is part of $17.9 million being distributed to municipalities statewide in the form of grants for cleanup of blighted properties, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday. The grants come from the Connecticut […]
The transit-oriented development, which needs town approval and will be dependent on a zoning change, would represent the third major apartment project to be located in West Hartford’s New Park Avenue corridor near the Elmwood and Flatbush CTfastrak bus stations. The developer is Sami Abunasra who bought the property in 2020 for $1.1 million, after […]
A town committee formed to work a plan for the new senior center Monday issued its final report, which proposes a 17,550-square-foot building on Spring Street at an estimated cost of $13.8 million. The site subcommittee began by looking at more than 36 properties for the new senior center, he said, narrowing them down to […]
The Sherman Street Bridge is one of 23 bridges in New London County rated in poor condition, according to U.S. Department of Transportation National Bridge Inspection data. Forty-five, including many of the 23, are rated on a separate scale as being in need of repair or corrective action. Another one of the local state-owned bridges […]
Renata Bertotti, who was hired as Newington’s Town Planner in Nov. 2020, brought together members of the Town Plan & Zoning Commission (TPZ) and Town Council Tuesday night to find out more about this alleged train station proposal, which was on the back burner for years. The Council and TPZ did approve Transit Village Design […]
Town bodies approved $18.5 million for the project in 2017 and broke ground in 2018. “I’m proud to announce the Holland Hill project is completed,” Jason Li, the building committee chairman, told the selectmen in his final report on Monday. The committee was established in early 2016 to oversee the elementary school expansion project, which […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday accepted a November termination filing by ISO-NE citing the likely failure of NTE Energy to achieve certain “critical path schedule milestones,” including commercial operations of the Killingly plant, by June 1, 2024, as laid out in a 2019 capacity supply obligation tariff. NTE, developers of the planned 650-megawatt, […]
Thanks to excellent reporting by Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie, we now know that Konstantinos Diamantis, deputy budget director, was associated with his daughter getting a plum $99,000-a-year executive assistant job, personally hired by the state’s top prosecutor, Richard Colangelo, who met her at a party also attended by her father. We know from reporting […]
Last month, the state Bond Commission approved a planning and environmental study of I-95 between exits 19 in Fairfield and 27A in Bridgeport. The study is expected to identify potential safety improvements along that section of the highway, especially northbound. The I-95 west corridor includes the stretch of highway from New York to New Haven. […]
The second phase of the town’s long-awaited sewer project is expected to break ground this spring. The state pushed the town to undertake the projects to meet new regulations and environmental standards under the federal Clean Water Act. Voters approved an estimated $48 million for the projects in 2018, but the actual costs came in […]
A project that has been designed and redesigned over the past decade now is on the calendar for construction to begin April 1. The city advertised for bids last month for a contractor to replace two bridges on Sherman Street that cross over the Yantic River. Bids are due Jan. 19, and construction on the […]
The plan by Blue Camp CT LLC, the company created by Maryland-based Blue Water Development Corp. for this project, calls for a resort recreational campground on three parcels totaling about 65 acres of land owned by the Mashantucket Tribal Nation. The land fronts on Route 2, and abuts Avery Pond, where the developer proposes to […]
A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday to solicit public feedback on a proposal to install solar panels on property owned by Rogers Orchards. The applicant, Energy Venture Management, Inc., is seeking to install 18,800 square feet of ground-mounted panels to the rear of the orchard’s farm store at 320 Long Bottom Road. Energy Venture’s […]
Plans by Danbury-based developer Albert Salame to build 200 apartments, a 90-bed continuing care facility, and a handful of low-rise buildings for offices, retail and entertainment near the west side campus of Western Connecticut State University will be reviewed by the city’s Planning Commission during a public hearing on Jan. 19. The plan, known as […]
Engineers will open the rebuilt westbound span of the Rochambeau Bridge at the Southbury border on Monday and begin work on the second half of the $53 million reconstruction project. Now that construction of the westbound span that carries Interstate 84 over the Housatonic River is complete, work will focus on rebuilding the eastbound span, […]
The Town Council unanimously chose Hartford-based developer Verogy last Thursday as the contractor for a 1.7-acre solar energy project at the transfer station. Adam Teff, a spokesman for TitanGen, presented to the council on Thursday three bidders for the construction of the solar arrays on the capped landfill. A capped landfill has a protective barrier […]
So, next month, the city will hold a referendum asking voters to approve adding $20 million to the project. When the school building project was approved in 2020, residents voted in favor of spending $159.6 million, with the expectation that, with about $85 million in state reimbursement, the city’s share would be lowered to $74.6 […]
The report, “Embracing the Potential of Offshore Wind in Connecticut: a Study of Opportunities and Challenges,” was commissioned by offshore wind partners Ørsted and Eversource, the team funding a portion of the $235 million reconstruction of State Pier in New London. The study was overseen by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, which hired […]
A delay in permitting has pushed some of the construction work at State Pier into late 2022, but the Connecticut Port Authority reported on Tuesday that the project remains on its projected $235 million budget. The port authority’s Board of Commissioners met by teleconference Tuesday, five days after receiving a key federal permit from the […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers presented a $35 million plan to replace the two bridges along Route 1 into Port Chester, N.Y., to improve water flow in the Byram River. The area near the river was hit hard by flooding, particularly in Pemberwick, after Hurricane Ida this past summer. The cost of the project […]
The City Council held a public hearing Monday night on a proposed tax incentive deal for the development of luxury apartments at Steelpointe. At month’s end the council will consider authorizing the tax break the developers are seeking to help finance the 400 “high-end market-rate” apartments, which will be located off of East Main Street […]
In total, the State Bond Commission, which Lamont leads, agreed to fund more than 50 different projects, programs and initiatives — some of which were championed by state lawmakers who are heading into a campaign season next year and are eager to bring home financial wins to their district. Bipartisan groups of lawmakers sent out […]
The renewable energy sector is preparing for a boom over the next five years and the fossil fuels industry is fighting hard to hold its place in the battle for power. That all bodes well for the construction industry, which will greatly benefit from the expansion, if longstanding pricing and materials acquisition challenges can be […]
Gov Ned Lamont announced this week that he has placed $839 million worth of upgrades to Connecticut’s transportation system on the agenda for the State Bond Commission’s meeting scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday. Lamont serves as chairman of the commission and ultimately determines what projects get placed on its agenda. The projects are expected to […]
Under their agreement with MIRA, 49 member towns and Hartford have the option to leave their contract each March. This year, MIRA is asking the towns to agree not to leave for five years unless tipping fees reach a “trigger price”, set at a few dollars per ton over the expected fees, Kirk said. Kirk […]
Construction apprenticeships generally take between three to five years to complete. Union programs are robust, with on-the-job training and classroom instruction. Connecticut’s construction workforce represents some of the best trained workers in the nation. We want to hire and train more apprentices and create more opportunities to face the ever-changing needs of our industry. But […]
Eleven airports in the state have been awarded nearly $12.5 million in federal infrastructure funding that is expected to help them increase flights and invest in infrastructure improvements. Connecticut leaders announced the funding from the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday. Bradley International Airport will get the biggest chunk, with more than $9 million. Over the […]
With distracted driving and speeding a common occurrence on Connecticut’s roadways, the state will install specialized cameras in work zones next year in an effort to slow down drivers. The pilot program, which is expected to start as soon as next summer, has also faced opposition with some saying it raises privacy concerns and is […]
The idea of forming a Tax Increment Financing district comes even as a developer moves forward with plans for the estimated $36 million adaptive reuse of the vacant sprawling mill complex on Garfield Avenue. The new owner, Litchfield-based Park Lane Group, is planning 90 apartments, a mix of market-rate and affordable housing, inside buildings originally […]
The state Bond Commission will meet Tuesday to vote on millions of dollars in requested funds for various projects across the state — including the proposed multi-use trail, which received a $484,000 grant-in-aid from the commission earlier this year. First proposed more than a decade ago, the about 2.5-mile, multi-use trail would run along the […]
After years of debate, the Academy School project, which town leaders say could transform the downtown area, finally will head to referendum. The plan initially was to move the community center project to referendum in 2020 but the pandemic delayed that. The project got pushed to the back-burner, a townwide facility study was completed and […]
A 165-unit apartment complex is proposed for Evergreen Walk in South Windsor, while a Shake Shack restaurant and a new location for a nationwide private preschool were approved for the mixed use development near the Manchester border. The public hearing on the proposed apartments was continued to the Jan. 11 planning and zoning commission meeting. […]
A roughly 1,000-apartment development next to Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford is up for a $13.6 million infusion through the State Bond Commission’s agenda next Tuesday. That means Hartford can be reasonably certain of $13.6 million for a loan to help launch the second phase of the roughly “Downtown Crossing” (formerly Downtown North) project under […]
The town is moving forward with a project to replace the bridge that carries Kensington Road over the Mattabesset River. During their regular Town Council meeting this week, elected officials voted to authorize the town manager to direct Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc. to finalize a design for the new bridge. The metal culverts that […]
Wednesday night, the Planning & Zoning Commission heard a pre-application for a plan to remove two buildings — an old professional building, and the building that used to house Starbucks and other businesses — at 900 White Plains Road, and replace them with a five-story mixed use property. Renovating Trumbull Center has long been a […]
