Work started recently to transform the former 3M office building at 100 Barnes Road into the town’s new police station. The town paid $1.8 million for the almost 10-acre property in July 2021. As an office building, it included a gym, a conference facility and a cafeteria. The total bonded for the purchase was $3.3 million, which included architectural and engineering design studies on the renovation. When completed, the department will move into the new space, vacating its current home in the old Armory building at 135 North Main St. In January, the Town Council approved $34 million in bonding, which included the initial $3.3 million for the building, for the project. Initially, before the pandemic, that cost was estimated to be about $24 million, but over the last several years prices have skyrocketed due to supply chain issues, as well as gas price increases due to domestic supply issues and the Ukraine war.

https://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Wallingford/Wallingford-News/Work-starts-on-new-Wallingford-Police-station.html

Yonkers Contracting Company Inc. started work on the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s (CTDOT) $77.2 million, design-build Stamford Station Parking Garage project in September 2021 to provide additional parking via a new facility and to improve services at the train station. The project is expected to be delivered this August. Development of the design-build project, via Walker Consultants, began in June 2021. With six months to go to completion, the location of the work site remains a challenge. Peak days have approximately 50 people on site, with major subcontractors being McPhee Electric for all the electrical work, MJ Daly for the plumbing and HVAC work and Blakeslee for precasting and erecting the garage structure.

https://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/yonkers-contracting-leads-77m-project-to-replace-stamford-parking-garage/60887

A planned $14-million redevelopment spearheaded by Hartford-based Lexington Partners will transform the building into a 20-room boutique hotel. Under the plan, the main second-floor courtroom will be converted into an upscale restaurant, accentuated by a rooftop lounge overlooking a portion of the town center and wooded hills beyond. With all needed approvals in hand, Lexington anticipates finalizing the purchase this month and beginning a 15-month renovation in May. The project is relying on $3 million worth of state and federal historic tax credits, in addition to $2 million in Connecticut Green Bank C-PACE financing for energy efficient building technology. Massachusetts-based PeoplesBank is loaning $7.5 million.

Hartford developer takes on transformation of antique Litchfield courthouse into boutique hotel

The property has been owned since 2018 under a limited liability company controlled by Senior Living Development, whose principal Mark De Pecol is CEO of KindCare Assisted Living based in Fairfield. Senior Living Development acquired the property for just under $3.3 million, with the city’s most recent appraisal calculating a value of $3.9 million. Trumbull’s head of economic development said the conversion remains an “outstanding” option for Trumbull, of the mix of possible options to redevelop the property. Trumbull has added several senior living communities in recent years as part of a larger apartment boom, with facilities including Bridges by Epoch at Trumbull, Middlebrook Farms at Trumbull, River Valley Retirement Community and Spring Meadows by Monarch. In January, the town renewed a moratorium on new apartments to analyze any impact by the Residences on Main nearing completion next to the Westfield Trumbull mall.

https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/ct-trumbull-dinardo-senior-living-48-monroe-17903472.php?src=rdctpbusiness

Danbury brothers Scott and David Benincasa’s site plan application to construct a four-story, $2.3 million apartment building on the property at 25 Church St. was approved at the Zoning Commission’s April 11 meeting. The proposed apartment building will have 18 units — six of which will be designated as affordable housing units, according to the site plan application. The Benincasas applied through the state statute 8-30g, which allows developers to bypass local zoning laws — with certain exceptions — if they promise to build a certain percentage of affordable housing. The demolition’s estimated cost is $10,000 while the estimated cost of the apartment building’s construction is $2.3 million.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/new-milford-apartments-danbury-brothers-17901714.php

City officials are prepared to initiate work on the long-awaited project to raise Beach Street 11 feet above sea level — a project expected to make way for more development along that stretch of the city’s beach — following the approval of a $4.8 million construction contract by a state oversight board. The raising of the road initially was projected to be finished in fall 2022, but lagging response times between the city and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection delayed the start of the project. During the permitting process, DEEP officials found a protected species of grass in the area that required a protection and relocation plan, further pushing back the road raising start date.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/west-haven-prepares-long-awaited-approved-beach-17901391.php

Connecticut Port Authority Executive Director Ulysses Hammond, at a board meeting on Tuesday, signaled that the answers should come within “the next few weeks,” as negotiations with the key involved players near an end. He said he expects to call a special meeting of the port authority’s board later this month regarding the price tag of the project, which now stands at $255.5 million. Negotiations on the final cost of construction at State Pier, which have steadily risen from a $93 million estimate in 2019, involve construction project manager Kiewit and offshore wind partners Orsted and Eversource, among others. About 60% of State Pier will switch from construction site to terminal in time for the expected arrival next month of vessels associated with Orsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind offshore wind project under construction off Long Island.

https://www.theday.com/local-news/20230418/final-state-pier-cost-remains-unknown/

The town on Dec. 24, 2020, closed the section of Burton Road from Wolfe Avenue to North Main Street to traffic due to structural issues and fears the road could fail. The closed section of the road, which has a sidewalk on one side and a stone wall on the other, travels over a brook that runs behind the Beacon Mill Village apartments. The road previously shifted due to erosion of its foundation from the brook. The state Department of Transportation has committed to give the town $2.9 million to fix the road through the Local Transportation Capital Improvement Program. The funds are administered by the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments. “They’ve (Dayton Construction) been excellent,” Selectman Michael Krenesky said.

https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2023/04/17/major-road-in-beacon-falls-will-reopen-later-this-year/

Neighbors of a 165-acre industrial site on the Thames River being developed by a Massachusetts dredging and marine services company say they don’t want to stop the project, but want the company to compromise by leaving more of a buffer for their neighborhood. Quincy-based Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting applied to the Ledyard Planning and Zoning Commission for approval of a 20,000 square foot repair facility for equipment the company uses in marine contracting and dredging throughout the northeast. The company is proposing to clear almost all of it to make room for the repair facility and a lay-down yard that Cashman Vice President Alan Perrault said during a public hearing Thursday night will be used to store aggregate that would be shipped out of the site by rail, and for offshore wind materials headed for the New London State Pier.

Gales Ferry Neighbors Push for Buffers as Dredging Company Plans Expansion

While the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission approved the proposed library design last week, planners had harsh words for the building’s look. Several said it looked like a factory and found it out of character with other buildings on that stretch of Main Street. DRA Architects of South Windsor worked on the design. The company, which also has offices in Massachusetts, designed Windsor, Tolland and Westbrook libraries. Chaplinsky also said that the renderings of the proposed $17 million library have been available to the public for months and that the time to bring up concerns was much earlier in the process. The library plans have 3,000 square-feet more than the current building. Supporters say it’s got more useable and flexible space that’s better laid out for modern uses.

https://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Southington/Southington-News/Southington-officials-defend-question-look-of-new-library.html