Anthony Properties will start building on the site of the former National Welding plant in Newington later this year, and possibly as early as this spring. State officials have been eager to see construction there for the past decade, and located a CTfastrak station alongside it in 2015 partly as a way to spur transit-oriented development. Just last month, Southington approved Anthony Properties’ plan for a $55 million complex of apartment buildings along Route 229 just a few blocks north of the I-84 ramps. The contractors’ trade magazine Construction Journal reports that the project will cost an estimated $55 million and will include a parking garage, four stories of apartments, a swimming pool, a dog park and other amenities. The company has dubbed the development The Spark.
Texas developer building 232 apartments in Newington, 255 in Southington