The work is expected to be completed in the spring of 2028, said Joe Cooper, state Department of Transportation communications manager. Cooper said the project will address the current bridge’s structural deficiencies while designing a new span that is storm resilient. The existing bridge, which has a concrete and steel beam structure reinforced by a concrete deck, was built in 1935, he said. The bridge deck and superstructure are rated poor. Cooper said the project will be funded 80% by the federal government and 20% by the state, with no cost to the town. Hanover said the town was successful in getting the bridge into the Federal Local Bridge Program, which means no local funds will be used and the state will administer the bridge design and construction. The second phase of construction will start after Labor Day in 2027 and is expected to be completed by spring 2028, he said. But he said that completion schedule could change, if there are delays with bids, utilities, or permits.

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The city finalized its $3 million purchase of the one-acre Attention to Detail vehicle customization property in December to make way for the proposed, block-size Village at Riverside mixed-use development bordered by Court and Main streets and deKoven and Dingwall drives. This and other projects are anticipated to help the city finally reconnect to its riverfront via a walking bridge over Route 9. An outdoor concert venue near the old Jackson Corrugated site is planned as part of Middletown’s long-term Return to the Riverbend project, which aims to redevelop the city’s portion of the Connecticut River. Springside Middletown, a $100 million, 486-unit luxury apartment and townhouse community situated on a 48-acre site at 494 Newfield St., is in the final stages of construction.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/middletown-ct-housing-retail-redevelopment-hotels-20006997.php

Hundreds of residential units came to Stamford in 2024, and 2025 is also shaping up as another banner year for development in the city. Large-scale construction projects have been approved at locations in North Stamford, as well as the downtown. Long Ridge Road is set to see over 800 new residential units, and the city’s downtown is poised for another large apartment building to join the half-dozen other big residential buildings that have come to fruition in the past several years. The proposed seven-story building next to the Ferguson Library will be home to 280 new residential units. Approvals came late in 2024. Developer Randy Salvatore is behind the project, and Salvatore also created The Asher, an apartment complex that is a block over from the proposed development.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-ct-residential-development-projects-2025-20007025.php

Across the New Haven area, shovels are entering the ground and steel beams are going up. Officials have green-lit construction and renovation projects to bring new businesses and housing to the region throughout 2025. Officials broke ground in October on the first phase of a project expected to completely revitalize Dixwell Avenue. The $200 million project to create a plaza with a mix of social services, private enterprise and open space is helmed by ConnCORP, a subsidiary of the nonprofit ConnCAT. Although most construction will occur this year, it is unlikely to be ready before 2026. The project, first proposed to the Dixwell community in 2019, has an expected construction timetable of 18 months. Hamden will spend about $11 million in ARPA funds to renovate the former Michael J. Whalen Junior High School’s freestanding gymnasium on Newhall Street into a youth, arts and recreation center.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/new-haven-area-development-projects-2025-20013128.php

New bridges, extra highway lanes and another round of road pavings are on the docket for 2025 in Stamford. An auxiliary lane will be added to both sides of Interstate 95 in Stamford in 2025 if the state’s plans come to fruition before the end of the year. The project involves adding an extra lane on each side of the highway to connect Exit 6 and Exit 7. The $76 million project is 90 percent funded by the federal government. The auxiliary lanes are part of a larger project that aims to improve the stretch of interstate between Exits 6 and 7. Other improvements include the construction of noise walls between the interstate and nearby neighborhoods as well as new lighting and signage. Three of Stamford’s lowest rated bridges will still be under repair at the start of 2025.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-road-construction-traffic-detours-2025-20009092.php

The Executive Kia dealership at 1164 N. Colony Road is undergoing a major expansion and renovation expected to be completed in 2025. The construction will double the size of the current building, totaling 24,000 square feet. The private school Choate Rosemary Hall is undertaking several projects expected to be completed in 2025. Minnesota-based medical equipment manufacturer Bio-Techne plans to double the size of its laboratory and manufacturing center at 5 Technology Drive with a 54,000-square-foot addition. The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan revision for the addition at its Oct. 16 meeting. With a zone change approved in December, developers are expected to bring forward plans to construct a data center at 1181 Barnes Road alongside the Muddy River. Concrete plans have yet to be presented, but if approved, it will be one of the state’s first data centers constructed on this scale under new legislation intended to attract new technological development to the state.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/recordjournal/article/meriden-wallingford-cheshire-southington-develop-19997696.php

A core tenet of my party is that government can deliver for the American people. We have also generally supported the regulations that protect our safety, the environment, and community input. But those regulations have calcified into a huge obstacle to building anything at all. A few months ago, I realized that over the last three years of providing Congressionally Directing Spending to my district, not a single earmarked transportation or infrastructure project had begun construction. More broadly, as of April 2024, almost 80 percent of IIJA’s available funding nationwide through 2026 had not been spent, a full three years after it was passed by Congress. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one of our country’s bedrock environmental laws, but it often imposes time-burning burdensome process. Each federal agency, including sub-agencies, has adopted its own NEPA procedures, resulting in duplicative environmental reviews across multiple agencies. The IIJA addressed this issue by implementing the One Federal Decision policy, but this process is still rarely followed. Permitting reform is also gaining bipartisan momentum in Congress, particularly for energy projects and transmission lines.

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As of last January, utility-scale battery power storage made up 46% of applications for new power sources to be connected to the grid, as reported by ISO New England, which oversees the region’s wholesale power market. ISO New England lists about 30 active battery farm projects statewide in Connecticut where developers want to hook up to grid substations operated by Eversource and the United Illuminating subsidiary of Avangrid. This year, feasibility or impact studies for at least 10 more battery farms have been filed as well. A year ago, the Norwich-based Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative issued a request for developers interested in building as many as five battery farms for its customer territories, which include portions of Norwalk, Norwich, Groton, Griswold and Bozrah. Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has been offering incentives to encourage battery storage systems, with the primary goal reducing electricity prices. Under a 2022 law passed by the Connecticut General Assembly, the state must achieve a carbon-emission-free electric grid by 2040 by phasing out polluting sources of power generation.

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The final report hasn’t been written, but research so far on a wide-ranging study of the Route 44 corridor in Canton endorses widening the roadway to create left-turn lanes at Dowd Avenue and adding a traffic roundabout on Dowd about a half-mile to the west. Engineers and traffic planners studied the cost, viability and potential benefits of a long series of ideas for improving safety and traffic flow along the a roughly 1.5-mile section of Route 44, the most heavily traveled road in Canton, and a shorter section of Dowd Avenue. Based on state transportation department’s forecast as well as the amount of properties open to potential development, planners projected a nearly 24% increase in traffic volume in the study area by 2050. One of the boldest and most challenging proposals that came up during the study was to convert the center of the Canton Village Shops’ long parking lots between Dowd Avenue and Route 44 into a full-scale road with sidewalks. However, the study fully recommends another large-scale change: installing a roundabout where the Canton Village Shops parking lot connects to Dowd Avenue.

In central CT town, Route 44 study predicts more traffic, high-density development

The Connecticut State Pier in New London is already serving as a new launching point for offshore wind turbines, but two sections of the newly renovated port facility will need to be fixed due to flaws in parts of the $311 million construction project. Correcting those problems is expected to cost, at a minimum, several million dollars, Whitescarver told legislators, and the work might not be completed until 2027, due to the ongoing use of the pier as a staging ground for offshore wind projects. Officials with the Port Authority believe Kiewit, the construction manager on the project, should be responsible for fixing the mistakes, since the company oversaw the construction effort and won several bids to build large portions of the pier. But Whitescarver acknowledged that Kiewit, one of the largest construction firms in North America, is unlikely to accept that outcome willingly. Kiewit told The Connecticut Mirror on Thursday that it stood behind its work on the project, and the company said it was not to blame for the issues it encountered with construction.

New London State Pier construction fixes likely to cost millions