SOUTHEAST, N.Y. -- Traffic was flowing smoothly westbound on Interstate 84 Sunday afternoon after construction crews completed the installation of a new, two-lane bridge over Dingle Ridge Road.
CT panel to consider Bass Pro Shops financing
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The State Bond Commission is considering a grant and financing package for a planned Bass Pro Shops store that would anchor Bridgeport's long-awaited Steel Point waterfront development project.
As ruling looms, sidesform in cooling towers debate
In Nov. 4 decision, EPA expected to leave states with authority over how to achieve new standard
Waterford - A much-anticipated decision due Nov. 4 from the Environmental Protection Agency is not expected to settle whether the Millstone Power Station ultimately must construct cooling towers, massive concrete structures that environmental groups say would reduce the destruction of fish and other harm to the Long Island Sound ecosystem, but that others warn pose their own drawbacks.
Lyme Town Hall and library construction begins Tuesday
Lyme - After much planning and anticipation, construction to expand and redesign Town Hall and the library will begin Tuesday.
But before contractors break ground, residents will vote at a special town meeting Monday on whether to raise the project's spending cap from $4.7 million to $5.08 million. The public spending limit will remain at $3.7 million, according to the agenda.
Residents had approved $4.7 million for the renovation and expansion project in spring 2012 but stipulated that $1 million of that total must come from grants or donations.
Developer: Depot Square in better shape then it looks
The Hartford Courant
Lyme Town Hall and library construction begins Tuesday
Lyme - After much planning and anticipation, construction to expand and redesign Town Hall and the library will begin Tuesday.
But before contractors break ground, residents will vote at a special town meeting Monday on whether to raise the project's spending cap from $4.7 million to $5.08 million. The public spending limit will remain at $3.7 million, according to the agenda.
Residents had approved $4.7 million for the renovation and expansion project in spring 2012 but stipulated that $1 million of that total must come from grants or donations.
Developer: Depot Square in better shape then it looks
The Hartford Courant
September 22, 2013
BRISTOL — When they turned the decrepit Bristol Centre Mall into rubble in 2008, city leaders held out hope that the property would soon be rebuilt with apartments, fresh stores, offices and perhaps a parking garage.
Five years later, the rutted 17-acre lot still has a few rusty "mall parking" markers on utility poles, along with a pair of much splashier signs that went up in 2011 to herald plans for the Depot Square redevelopment.
Yale Peabody Museum to undergo $30m renovation
By Mark Zaretsky, New Haven Register
Yale Peabody Museum to undergo $30m renovation
By Mark Zaretsky, New Haven Register
The Peabody, which houses discoveries by one of the earliest dinosaur bone hunters, O.C. Marsh, is raising money now to commemorate its 150th anniversary with the $30 million renovation project. The idea is “to reflect advances in the study of the history of life on our planet,” the museum said in a press release.
Esty makes renewable choices, Maine wind, CT sunshine
By Mark Pazniokas and Jan Ellen Spiegel
Esty makes renewable choices, Maine wind, CT sunshine
By Mark Pazniokas and Jan Ellen Spiegel
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday his administration is delivering on a promise to procure clean energy at competitive prices as it announced deals with developers of a new wind farm in Maine and a solar project in eastern Connecticut.
The two projects will average under eight cents per kilowatt hour, a price the administration says is close to the cost of power generated from fossil fuel plants. It called the rates some of the lowest costs ever obtained for solar and wind power in the region.
The two projects will average under eight cents per kilowatt hour, a price the administration says is close to the cost of power generated from fossil fuel plants. It called the rates some of the lowest costs ever obtained for solar and wind power in the region.