'Construction Chiefs' to meet in Rocky Hill
ROCKY HILL — The Professional Women in Construction organization predicts 2016 will be another year of positive growth for the construction industry, with an expected 6 percent bump in nonresidential construction. With that growth comes new challenges on multiple fronts.
To offer analysis and conversation on current prospects and industry forecasts of the industry, the Connecticut chapter of the PWC will host executives from some of New England’s top-ranked construction firms at “Meet the Construction Chiefs!” next week.
The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, at the Sheraton Hartford South, 100 Capital Blvd.
The presentation panel will include Daniel Bauer, senior vice president of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; Lynn Fusco, president and chief executive officer of the Fusco Corporation; Al Gogolin, senior vice president of Skanska USA; Michael Kolakowski, president and chief executive officer of KBE Building Corporation; Karrie Krat, vice president and Connecticut operations manager of the Gilbane Building Company; Gregg D. Scholler, vice president of operations of Turner Construction; and Ron Simoneau, vice president of Shawmut Design & Construction. Arch Currie, the principal of No Left Turn, LLC, will serve as panel moderator.
PWC is a nonprofit organization “committed to advancing professional, entrepreneurial and managerial opportunities for women and other ‘non-traditional’ populations in construction and related industries.”
The group comprises six chapters with more than 1,000 members and serves a constituency of close to 15,000, representing a broad spectrum of the industry. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
Pike International seeks to create apartments in historic New Haven section
NEW HAVEN >> Pike International wants to continue its conversion of mansions in the Prospect Hill Historic District to apartments and has proposed 10 more units off Huntington Street.
Plans have been shared with the city’s zoning office and will be discussed at a meeting of the East Rock Management Team Monday night, but city officials said there is no formal application at this point. Developers in New Haven often contact management teams to get feedback on their proposals.
This latest renovation is for property at 164 Huntington St., an 8,000-square-foot buildable lot in an RS-2 residential zone and 162 Huntington St. which has a 15-room, 10,840 square-foot-home and a 600-square-foot carriage house in an RS-1 zone.
RS-2 is a general single family zone, while RS-1 is a special single family zone.
William Kaplan, president of the Ronan-Edgehill Neighborhood Association, said the people he has heard from feel the city should leave the RS-1 zone in place, as it was put there for good reasons.
He said part of the reason it is a beautiful neighborhood, is because it is zoned for single family homes and it is ironic that a PDU would allow something different than that.
“There are plenty of places in the city that can be developed,” Kaplan said of other sites for Pike’s plans. The parcels being considered cover 1.25 acres and the builder has proposed creation of a Planned Development Unit for the unified tract. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE