Once a top manufacturer of ball bearings, bicycle spokes and a long list of other items, the Torrington Company is coming down. The eight- to nine-month project to demolish 22 of the 25 buildings on the site, which sits on North Street and encompasses parts of several other streets including East Elm, Prospect and Field Street, will hopefully begin on Labor Day, said Glenn Carbone, who owns the property under Torrington Standard, LLC. While the contract has not officially been signed, Carbone said the plan is for Manafort Brothers Inc. Construction of Plainville to do the work. In January of last year, some demolition work, such as taking out windows, was completed in preparation for the larger grant-funded project.
Nearly two dozen Torrington Company buildings to be razed to make way for redevelopment