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Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

A development firm has closed on the acquisition of a site next to UConn’s Storrs campus where it plans to build a 738-bed student housing property. Landmark Properties says it will begin construction on the 1.56 acre site at 134 North Eagleville Road later this year....
Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

Here’s why Connecticut’s newest ‘shed’ is worth $640M. What’s inside is even more costly.

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

The USS District of Columbia will be among the most expensive ships in U.S. history, when the nuclear submarine launches years from now into the Thames River at a projected cost of $16 billion, at last report. The South Yard assembly building at General Dynamics...
Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

Warehouse Plans Spark Fears in Glenbrook Neighborhood

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

V20 Group of Darien, the new owner of 6.9 acres at the industrial site, met with neighbors on March 4. On March 11 the Stamford Planning Board unanimously approved V20 Group’s application to consolidate three parcels, knock down six buildings, and put up a...
Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

Torrington seeks $6.9M in grants for environmental cleanup of Yankee Pedlar Inn and other sites

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

The city is seeking $6.9 million in state grants for environmental cleanup at the historic Yankee Pedlar Inn and at former industrial sites around town. Glenn Carbone, operations manager for Torrington Company site owner IRG Realty Advisors — and the mayor’s...
Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

Developer Sues Ledyard for Rejecting Mount Decatur Project

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

The two-year dispute between Gales Ferry residents and the developer seeking to level the north side of Mount Decatur took a new turn this week when the company sued the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission for rejecting the special permit. Gales Ferry Intermodal,...
Developer buys 1.56-acre site near UConn’s Storrs campus for large-scale, 738-bed student housing project

The real construction crisis isn’t a labor shortage – it’s a wage shortage | Opinion

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 14, 2025 | Uncategorized

Across New Jersey and across the country, trade unions have millions of workers ready to step onto job sites. These skilled workers are ready to build data centers, hydrogen hubs and other megaprojects in the pipeline. Millions more await a call to join as...
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