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Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

by Joelyn Leon | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized

According to the Barnum Museum museum website, the building, located at 820 Main Street, has begun a “major construction of the historic exterior.” The museum building has been closed to visitors since it sustained damage in a 2010 tornado. The Barnum...
Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

As New Canaan builds a new police station, here’s how their temporary location is taking shape

by Joelyn Leon | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized

During its Tuesday Board of Selectmen meeting, the board approved $21,735 to install fiber optic cable at the Locust Avenue location and another $51,032 to relocate the dispatch center to the building. The police department is being moved while its headquarters at 174...
Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

Submarine Supply Chain Largest Barrier to Improving Virginia Attack Sub Schedule, Says Boykin

by Joelyn Leon | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

Availability of parts, not people, is the largest barrier right now to catch up with the delays in constructing Virginia-class nuclear attack boats, company officials at submarine builder Newport News Shipbuilding told USNI News. While work stoppages and worker...
Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

Greenwich developer floats 10-story hotel next to Curley’s Diner in downtown Stamford

by Joelyn Leon | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

Wellbuilt Company, a developer headquartered in Greenwich with two projects already in Stamford, has filed a pre-application with the Land Use Bureau to explore building an extended stay hotel on the property. Preliminary designs include a 10-story building with 95...
Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

The safety violations in construction’s most iconic photo

by Joelyn Leon | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized

Much has changed since workers building the 66-story, 850-foot-tall Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan posed for “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” in 1932, but it remains construction’s most iconic photograph. The OSH Act created OSHA in 1971, so this photo existed...
Exterior work underway at Bridgeport’s Barnum Museum

How DOT determined the Gold Star Bridge was safe to reopen after catching fire

by Joelyn Leon | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized

Given the shock of the earlier plumes of black smoke emanating from the bridge, there was some surprise when two southbound lanes opened three hours later. Additional lanes opened the following morning, but the right-hand acceleration lane and pedestrian walkway...
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