Up Front
Plainville Town Hall Celebrates Ribbon Cutting
Plainville, MA – Elected officials and CTA Construction staff were joined by members of the community to cut the ceremonial ribbon on Plainville’s new town hall and public safety building. The $27 million project is the first in Massachusetts to be funded in part through casino gaming revenues from Plainridge Park Casino. Officials selected CTA […]
C.E. Floyd Joins CVOC Groundbreaking
Middletown, MA – C.E. Floyd Co. recently joined the groundbreaking at Covenant Village of Cromwell (CVOC). CVOC officially broke ground on its $48 million, 110,000sf expansion. The community will add 54 living units and a new town center, which will include three dining areas, game room, art studio, wellness center, and many other amenities to help […]
Waters Expansion Project Tops Off
Taunton, MA – JM Coull (JMC) topped off the first building under Waters Corporation’s 135,000sf manufacturing facility expansion project in Taunton. The building, which will house offices, laboratories, manufacturing space, central utilities, and maintenance, has since been enclosed and made weathertight. Energy-efficient TPO roofing is currently being installed. Waters is making approximately a $215 million […]
Ground Broken on PUMA HQ
Somerville, MA – Somerville Mayor Curtatone and Sports Company PUMA joined to break ground for PUMA’s new headquarters building at 455 Grand Union Boulevard at Assembly Row. Federal Realty Investment Trust has launched construction of the new 300,000sf retail and office building. Cranshaw Construction is the general contractor, and Copley Wolff Design Group is the landscape architect […]
Groundbreaking Held for Shepaug AgSTEM Project
Washington, CT – A groundbreaking was recently held to kick off the Shepaug Valley (Region 12) Regional Agriscience STEM Academy project. The project includes the construction of a new, 52,000sf Agriscience STEM center that will include classrooms, laboratory space (food science, plant science, veterinary science, small animal and computer labs), storage areas, outbuildings, animal growing […]
Dacon Underway at Senior Metal Bellows
Sharon, MA – Senior Metal Bellows, a 60-year-old precision components manufacturer, broke ground with Dacon last fall for a two-story, 47,000sf addition to its Sharon facility. The project consists of a flexible 25,700sf manufacturing space on the first floor with a 21,300sf open plan for corporate offices and full-service lunch room on the second floor. […]
Publisher’s Message – February 2019
Thanks for reading our February 2019 issue. We’ve got two focuses this month. We start off our Restoration & Renovation section with an article by HP’s own Emily Langner. Emily interviewed Alison Frazee, assistant director of the Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA), on how the nonprofit agency is expanding its vision to include legacy businesses, neighborhoods, streetscapes,and […]
RWU Celebrates Topping Off
Bristol, RI - Roger Williams University recently held a steel topping-off ceremony, marking completion of the steel framework for a laboratories building for RWU’s School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management. On Dec. 17, 2018, a steel beam, bearing an evergreen tree and signed by trustees, administrators, alumni, donors, faculty, and students, was hoisted into […]
UMass Dartmouth Builds Residence Hall with $132M Bond
Dartmouth, MA – MassDevelopment issued a $132,185,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of Provident Commonwealth Education Resources II Inc. (PCER), a public-private partnership that will use bond proceeds to build, furnish, and equip a five-story, 306,900sf residence hall at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The new facility, which will house approximately 1,210 mostly first-year students, will […]
Heilind Marks Construction Progress with Beam Signing
Wilmington, MA – Heilind Electronics, based in Wilmington, topped off the construction of its new 60,000sf addition with a beam signing, marking the construction’s progres Erland Construction of Burlington, ahp Architects and DB Roberts also joined the ceremony.
