Stamford's Landmark Square gets OK to be 31 stories, making it the city's third-tallest building
STAMFORD — The city’s skyline will have a new landmark.
The Stamford Zoning Board on has approved a proposal to
build a 31-story high-rise apartment building in downtown’s
Landmark Square. The residential tower will replace an existing office building
built in 1977 as part of Stamford’s urban renewal era.
The new project will be the city's third-tallest building.
The developer, White Plains, N.Y.-based Cappelli Organization, also
developed Stamford’s tallest building, the 350-foot Park Tower Stamford —
formerly known as Trump
Parc Stamford. The Zoning Board approved a 423-foot residential tower for
677 Washington Blvd. in February 2021, but crews have yet to break ground on
the project.
The board voted 3-2 on July 10 in favor of the
proposal. Chair David Stein and members Rosanne McManus and William Morris
voted for the project. Newer members Gerald Bosak Jr. and Racquel
Smith-Anderson voted against the development; the two also opposed a 198-unit apartment building on Broad Street in May.
The development will have 400 apartments — 20 studios, 180
one-bedrooms, 180 two-bedrooms and 20 three-bedroom units. It does not have
affordable housing on-site. The developer instead opted to contribute about
$10.7 million to Stamford’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which officials said
is the largest single contribution they have ever received.
“The reason that we’re focusing our attention now on fee in
lieu is we’ve solved the affordable housing problem locally at 50 percent of
(area median income) for one and two-bedroom units,” attorney William
Hennessey, who represented the developer, told the Zoning Board. “Now, we have
to focus on deeper affordability for larger units and that’s where the
fee-in-lieu comes in. And that’s why it’s important.”
The building’s seventh through 31st floors will be
residential. The sixth floor will be the amenity space, including an outdoor
terrace, indoor pool, children’s play area, club room, fitness room, yoga room
and more.
The first floor will be two-sided — on one, an apartment
lobby; and the other, a retail area facing Veterans Memorial Park. The parking
setup includes 420 spaces in a multi-level garage accessible from Atlantic
Street.
The board’s deliberations happened during its June 26 and
July 10 meetings. Hennessey and land use consultant Rick Redniss made
presentations at both meetings, which also included public hearings where
residents could voice their opinions to the board.
A handful of residents spoke at both meetings, offering
mixed opinions on the proposal. Some voiced concerns about traffic congestion
and the lack of affordable housing in the building.
Redniss said the traffic impact on downtown will be less
strenuous than that of the existing building.
“Instead of having 134,000 square feet of offices where
people will commute to get to, we’ll have people living downtown who can walk
to work. So, the difference is dramatic,” Redniss said.
The Zoning Board deliberated conditions for approving the
building during the final hour of a nearly five-and-a-half hour meeting.
The height of the building exceeds the maximum of 290 feet
allowed in Downtown Stamford under the city's zoning regulations. But according
to Land Use Bureau staff, the additional 30 feet of height was permissible if
the developer made contributions to the streetscape and surrounding area, such
as new public space, awnings, canopies and other pedestrian amenities.
Initially, the developer agreed to cover the costs of new
bus stop infrastructure and bike racks in front of the building. However, McManus
and Stein said they did not feel the additions were enough.
After a brief discussion, board members asked the developer
to also provide $500,000 for “additional improvements within Veterans Park,” to
which Land Use Bureau Chief Ralph Blessing said they agreed.
Another condition involved the setback of the building on
Atlantic Street. The state has floated
funding for Stamford to widen sidewalks and bike lanes on the downtown
thoroughfare, but officials said they haven’t received the money.
Depending on the funding, officials conditioned two plans.
If the state money arrives before the city issues a building permit, the
building will be aligned with neighboring properties and feature a wider
sidewalk across its entire frontage. If not, the building will be set further
back on the property to maximize sidewalk space, but nearby buildings wouldn’t
be as neatly aligned.
The building is the third high-rise apartment building
approved on the 30-acre block — bound by Atlantic Street, Broad Street,
Greyrock Place and Tresser Boulevard — in the last three years. The Broad
Street building was approved in May, and an eight-story, 228-unit apartment
building, green-lit in
July 2021, is under construction at Broad Street and Greyrock Place.
On the other side of Veterans Park, the Zoning Board is
still considering a proposal to convert the Stamford Savings Bank building into an 11-story
boutique hotel. The board opened a hearing on the hotel last December, but they
have not yet taken a vote.
East Hartford apartment complex planned for former movie theater site gets $7 million in state funds
Joseph Villanova
EAST HARTFORD — The town continues to be a hotbed of
development, and it's fair to say folks around these parts have not seen this
movie before.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Tuesday that nearly
$7 million in State Bond Commission funding will be used for an
apartment complex on the site of the former Showcase Cinemas. A groundbreaking
is expected later this year.
Lamont said construction is tougher in Connecticut than many
other states and the lending market is difficult, but the
apartment complex known as Concourse Park and other projects around
town mark the beginning of a major revival of East Hartford.
"You're not going to recognize this amazing city,"
Lamont said.
The apartment complex is one of a handful of major
construction projects underway or in the planning stages in East
Hartford.
East Hartford Mayor Mike Walsh said the site of the new
apartments lies close by to the new logistics centers at Rentschler Field;
Silver Lane Plaza, which will see major redevelopment in the near future; and
Charter Oak Mall, a site that is "hanging by a thread, waiting for this
type of economic activity to occur."
At a recent meeting the State Bond Commission shifted
existing funding for redevelopment of property in the area of Silver Lane
and Rentschler Field, approved in June 2018, to support the apartment
project. The commission also approved $6.5 million in new funding for the
abatement and demolition of buildings in
the Founders Plaza area.
New Britain-based Jasko Development, in partnership with
West Hartford-based Zelman Real Estate, plans to build as many as 400
units as part of a market-rate, "amenity-rich" complex to be named
Concourse Park. Walsh said the apartment developers must have shovels in the
ground by the end of September 2023, in keeping with a development agreement
for the property.
Brian Zelman, principal of Zelman Real Estate, said he
expects construction will take between 18 and 24 months, with completion likely
staggered building by building. He said the complex would house roughly 1,000
people once complete, spread between studio apartments and one- to
three-bedroom units.
Zelman said the project would ultimately cost "north of
$100 million" and rents would be less than comparable newly constructed
units in surrounding areas, though he could not provide a specific figure.
"It's always a moving target," Zelman said.
The location of the planned apartments was formerly home to
a multiplex Showcase Cinemas location, which closed in 2006. The site was left
dilapidated for years until the town purchased the property in January 2019 for
$3.3 million. Demolition of the former theater was completed in 2020, and town
officials proceeded to explore private development of the parcel.
The apartment complex project itself was brought to town
officials roughly two years before the scheduled groundbreaking. In
September 2021, under the administration of former Mayor Marcia Leclerc, Town
Council voted 6-3 along party lines to execute a sale agreement on the Showcase
Cinema property.
After a number of prerequisite items, the roughly 26-acre
property would be granted to Jasko Development for $1. Officials have said the
sale price is part of the town's incentives to make the development successful
and viable, and that it would pay dividends through the infusion of disposable
income into the local economy from new residents.
A 28-year tax abatement serves as another major
financial boon for the developer, fixing the developer's annual payment for
each unit with an annual increase over the life of the agreement.
The town's Planning and Zoning Commission approved plans for
the project in September 2022, originally at 470 units. Walsh said changes in
the lending market required a more flexible target, and changes were made to
the agreement in May 2023 to allow the developers to build anywhere
between 300 and 400 units.
Walsh said the infrastructure of the project is a
"fixed cost" of development, and the developers could pause after the
first wave of units to see whether the market would support an expansion.
Lamont said housing is an important issue on many fronts,
including economic growth.
"We're never going to get this state growing again
without housing," Lamont said.
Michael Freimuth, executive director of the Capital Region
Development Authority, said the developments in East Hartford are coming
together "slowly and methodically.
"When I saw this site three years ago, it was evident
to me that someone needed to step up," Freimuth said.
House Majority Leader Jason Rojas said the importance of new
market-rate units is expanding the market to promote competition and bring
costs down, in addition to addressing housing shortages across price points.
"We need more housing of all kinds," Rojas said.
Rojas said the apartment project will bring foot traffic
back to the Silver Lane corridor, originally pushed out by the Buckland Hills
mall, and the extra disposable income will help bring amenities back.
"These are the kinds of projects that need to happen and
this will be a great example of how these projects happen," Rojas said.
State Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, said that the model
of Concourse Park's development, a collaboration between private developers and
municipal and state governments, should be replicated in other towns across the
state.
"All good things start from this town," Anwar
said.
Bridgeport temporarily revokes zoning permit for Testo's apartments, but developer starts demolition
BRIDGEPORT — Hours
after municipal demolition permits were issued for the property, the city's
zoning chief Monday advised the developer and contractor behind a 177-unit
apartment complex planned for the former Testo's restaurant of
"serious questions and reservations" with the plan approval his
department issued in March 2022.
As a result, wrote Zoning Administrator Paul Boucher in
a letter Monday night, he temporarily revoked that months-old authorization,
which for weeks now has been scrutinized by the municipal law department for
potential but so far unspecified improprieties. Boucher stated he had "new
information" that caused him to question whether the 2022 approval was
based on "complete and accurate information."
"You are hereby advised that to the extent that you
elect to proceed with demolition of this site ... you will being doing so at
your own financial risk and peril," Boucher wrote. "Until this matter
is resolved, it may be in your best interests to maintain the status quo with
regards to existing structures on the site."
But on Tuesday workers had begun tearing down two of the
homes on the Madison Avenue site anyway.
Contractor John Guedes, who designed the apartments and
whose local Primrose company is building them for out-of-town owner Amit
Lakhotia, continued to maintain in an interview Tuesday morning that
"everything was done by the book."
"It's all nonsense," Guedes said. "It's
politically motivated. I don't know what to tell you."
Testo's owners Ralph Giacobbe and his uncle Mario Testa,
Bridgeport's longtime Democratic chairman and close ally of Mayor Joe
Ganim, closed the establishment on New Year's Eve and it was officially
purchased by Lakhotia in April. The
sale had been announced last November.
In the spring fencing with a sign advertising the coming
apartments was erected at the site, worrying some neighbors who had assumed
that any development of that size — four stories with underground parking —
proposed for their one-and-two family residential area would require a public
hearing before the zoning commission and a vote of that mayoral and City
Council-appointed body.
On
May 2 Hearst Connecticut Media reported that, according to the mayor's
office, because the apartment plans were submitted in December 2021 to the
zoning department by Testa and Giacobbe before new, more-restrictive municipal
zoning regulations took effect Jan 1, 2022, they were properly reviewed under
the previous design guidelines and approved without a public hearing and zoning
commission action.
Some neighbors, activists and council members cried foul and
demanded City Hall stop the development, or at least force a public hearing. A few
days later Ganim, who is seeking re-election, took the unusual step of
announcing that he agreed with their concerns and would have the law department
review the situation.
The approval for the Testo's project was issued under
veteran zoning department head Dennis Buckley, who retired last July. Boucher,
another long time staffer there, was then put in charge.
Last week head municipal lawyer Mark Anastasi said that his
office's opinion, being drafted with consultation with outside counsel, would
be released this week. It was previously supposed to come out at the end of
June.
Guedes, who has built or is building several projects in
Bridgeport and Shelton and been acting as a spokesperson for Lakhotia, has
all along argued that the law department would not come up with anything to
stop the apartments from being erected. He and the private land use attorney,
Raymond Rizio, who filed for the zoning authorization in December 2021,
have also pointed to the fact that on May 17 the building department issued a
permit to construct the foundation for the development.
"It's a confirmation that everything was done
correctly," Rizio said in an interview Monday morning.
Rizio declined to comment on Boucher’s letter.
Then later Monday the building department issued three
demolition permits, one for Testo's, two for a pair of neighboring houses.
Around 7 p.m., just a couple hours after Hearst reported that Guedes could go
ahead with razing those structures and intended to start that work
Tuesday, Boucher emailed his letter to the contractor, Lakhotia, Rizio's law
office and Bridgeport's law department.
City Councilwoman Jeanette Herron, who represents the
neighborhood and has been opposing the apartment complex, said Tuesday that
when she learned about the demolition authorization she reached out to the
Ganim administration.
"I called very upset saying, 'How are we letting the
demolition permit go?'" she said. "I was told they can't stop a
demolition permit. I am glad zoning did do this letter."
Early Tuesday afternoon Ganim's office issued a press
release that the mayor, who often promotes Bridgeport as a development-friendly
city and has previously touted some of Guedes' downtown housing projects,
continues to "stand with the residents of this neighborhood" and is
"in full support" of Boucher's action.
"Temporary revocation of the zoning approval is the
most appropriate course of action while we await a final legal opinion,"
Ganim said. Representatives from his office and the economic development
department had previously met privately with Lakhotia and Guedes to
unsuccessfully try and reduce the project's size. Guedes has argued the $3.5
million Lakhotia paid for Testo's was tied to his being able to build 177
units.
“Ultimately the project was bought from them (Giacobbe and
Testa) as a fully approved project," Guedes said Tuesday.
"The buildings are being demolished," Guedes
reiterated. "Anyone can decide to knock down their buildings. All
utilities were disconnected. Everything was done."
Former state Rep. Christopher Caruso is a North End resident
and has been one of the most vocal opponents of the lack of a public hearing
for the 177-unit apartment building.
Though a frequent critic of fellow Democrat Ganim, Caruso on
Tuesday was pleased with Boucher's effort to intervene and delay the project.
"At this point it's definitely a positive step,"
Caruso said. "But we don't know what the legal opinion's going to say.
We've got to wait to see."
Caruso also took issue with what he said was Guedes'
"brazen, defiant attitude."
"I've known John for many, many years," Caruso
said. "I just think he should tone it down a bit. He doesn't live in that
neighborhood. Have some understanding of what people are going through
(there)."
Though a possible election-year win for Ganim, who is
seeking a third consecutive four-year term and facing
three Democratic rivals for the job, the Testo's affair could
set a precedent and scare away potential developers who will now be
wary of the reliability of Bridgeport's permitting processes, particularly if
their proposals are politically controversial.
And if the 177-apartments are somehow stopped, the current
zoning regulations that took effect in January 2022 would still allow a
sizeable project there that may not be any more pleasing to neighbors — a three
story building with first floor commercial space, two levels of housing and no
on-site parking requirements.
"We want something," Herron said. "But we
don't want an eyesore in a one and two-family residential area."
$29 million approved toward improvements to West Haven's Surfside Apartments
WEST HAVEN — Following claims
of years of neglect at the city housing authority's Surfside
Apartments, residents soon could see some improvements.
Board members for Savin Rock Communities voted
unanimously to borrow up to $29.3 million to make upgrades to Surfside, a
254-unit public housing property designated obsolete in early 2020 by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to authority Executive
Director John Counter,
"I've got goose bumps about this," Counter
said after Tuesday's vote. "I am so excited, we’re going to flip every one
of those units."
According to the approved resolution, the board of directors
approved Counter to obtain an amount “not to exceed $29,296,000" in a
mortgage loan from Lument Real Estate Capital.
Counter said in March that plans
to borrow in order to renovate Surfside Apartments would be the first
phase of a multiphase plan to update the West Haven housing authority's housing
stock.
Counter has said when he was hired to the executive director
role in 2014 that Surfside had been neglected for years. He told the Register
in 2021 that the true cost of updating the building was
"cost-prohibitive" without first being approved for grants and loans
that were delayed by a bureaucratic logjam caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although Counter had said 24-hour maintenance service is
available to Surfside residents, the repairs that must be made to the
building are beyond patchwork. On Tuesday, he said the borrowing will support
upgrades to the roofing, boiler system and fencing, among other things.
“The building is going to look gorgeous from the
street," he said.
When Counter was hired as director of Savin Rock
Communities, the West Haven Housing Authority was embroiled in controversy over
a bribery and conspiracy scandal. Former West Haven Housing Authority
Director Michael
Siwek pleaded guilty to accepting bribes for contracts in 2016 over a
five-year period beginning in 2007. In 2021, residents complained of security
and safety concerns following
an alleged sexual assault of a resident of the building, an
incident that
led to a lawsuit earlier this year.
CTDOT Maintains Through Streets for Stonington Viaduct Replacement
Cate Hewitt
STONINGTON — In an unexpected move, the state Department of
Transportation told town officials on Monday that it plans to fully replace the
83-year-old Alpha Street viaduct while preserving the through streets running
below it.
The new plan, dubbed “option five,” came after the department
offered several repair options, including a $25.5 million bridge replacement
that would have closed off Cutler Street and parts of Main and Matthews
streets, First Selectman Danielle Chesebrough told CT Examiner.
“I have to say I feel like they have gone above and beyond
what our expectations have been. … Option five – it’s just a concept, they
don’t have anything drawn – is a full replacement like option four was, but all
within the same footprint, essentially,” she said. “The big thing is not
closing off any roads – that was obviously our biggest concern.”
The 625-foot bridge, known as the Frank Turek viaduct,
traverses Amtrak tracks and has provided the only vehicular access to
Stonington Borough since 1940. From 1858 to 1940, the borough was accessible
via a railroad crossing that became the site of multiple injuries and
fatalities, independent historian Bob Suppicich explained in his 2011 presentation about
the viaduct at the Stonington Historical Society.
The project requires raising the bridge 4 feet to meet the
required clearance over the Amtrak line, and the bridge width will also be
increased, Chesebrough said.
To compensate for adding height to the viaduct, Alpha Street
on the Stonington end of the bridge will also be slightly raised to provide a
more gradual angle of approach, which Chesebrough said would help address
flooding issues in that area.
On the borough side, she said “they don’t think there’s much
they can do to help on that because it’s so tight and the properties are right
there. … But again, it was all very conceptual.”
The cost of “option five” has yet to be determined, but the
town’s budget is capped at $1.2 million, Chesebrough said. Federal funds will
supply 80 percent of the total, with the remainder paid by the state, according
to a June 6 DOT presentation.
Alternative repair options were significantly cheaper and
would have taken no land or buildings, but the 2022 Rehabilitation Study Report
by consulting firm CHA Companies, of East Hartford, noted that repairing the
bridge would extend its longevity by just 50 years and cost more to maintain.
“The replacement alternative offered significant cost
savings for taxpayers through a much lower life cycle cost, with 75 years of
reduced maintenance effort,” DOT spokesperson Josh Morgan told CT
Examiner.
The DOT designs a 75-year lifespan for most new bridges and
100 years for major bridges, according to a department report.
Stonington Borough Fire Chief Jeff Hoadley also suggested
working with Amtrak to allow an at-grade crossing for emergencies during
construction of the new bridge, Chesebrough said.
Morgan said Amtrak is a stakeholder that will be involved in
the project.
“CTDOT will provide Amtrak the opportunity to comment on
milestone design submittals. We will be looking for railroad protective
services as needed to enter the property for pre-construction activities.
During construction phase, we would also coordinate any required track outages,
and obtain railroad protective services, such as flaggers, for accessing their
property,” he said.
The project schedule includes a public information session
in the summer of 2024, preliminary designs in fall of 2024, and a “semi-final”
design by 2025.“
We anticipate design completion in late summer of 2026 and
construction start in spring of 2027,” Morgan said.
Demolition continues in South Meriden to make way for housing
MERIDEN — Construction to build 24 riverside apartment units
in three buildings is underway on Main Street in South Meriden.
Local developer LaRosa Construction is behind the
project.
Doing business as Rincon Holdings LLC, the company won
Planning Commission approval for the project by a 4-1 vote back in January.
The apartments will occupy 14,390 square feet along with
associated utilities, parking and stormwater management infrastructure on 3.41
acres adjacent to the Quinnipiac River.
The units would be two-bedroom market rate apartments, said
Planning Commission member Elain Cariati just prior to project approval in
January.
LaRosa had prior approvals from the Zoning Board of Appeals
to change the use in the Neighborhood Commercial Development District and on
the number of units. The city's Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission had
approved the stormwater detention plan and other flood controls, and the Design
Review Board OK'd the project with some architectural and landscaping changes.
"When it came to Planning (Commission) our only job was
to approve the site plan," Cariati said.
An existing commercial building at 33 Main St. was
demolished for the project.
Planning Commission member Chad Cardillo voted against the
project after raising objections over the density allowed in the Neighborhood
Commercial Development District Zone.
During some of the public hearings on the project, neighbors
expressed concerns about traffic backups at Hanover and Main streets.
"Even with a traffic study, it doesn't change people's
perceptions over how long they're waiting," Cardillo said at the time.
"I had some questions about the density of residential property that can
be built in those zones. The language can be vague. I didn't feel comfortable.
And people are concerned about building near the river."
Cardillo and others were pleased LaRosa eliminated three
bedroom units and is only building two-building apartments.
"Every time we look at housing all of us think about
the impact to city services," Cardillo said.
Per the FEMA mapping, a large area of the site is in the 100
year floodplain. Engineering asked for more information regarding the
floodplain limits and it was determined the buildings will be out of the 100
year floodplain, according to staff reports.
City Councilor Bob WilIiams, who represents South Meriden,
is familiar with the proposal and his only issue is overflow parking impeding
local businesses, whose customers park on Main Street.
"Other than that, I don't have any concerns,"
Williams said. "The Larosa family have been great stewards in their city
projects.
Everything they've done is to a high standard."
City Councilor Bob Williams, who represents South Meriden,
previously told the Record-Journal the development is the first new residential
building in that area of South Meriden since work was completed on Diamond Hill
Road.
"I don't believe there has been any housing inventory
built," Williams said. "This is the first I recall over several
decades."
R.I. offshore wind farm moves closer to reality
Greg Smith
Revolution Wind, a planned offshore wind farm off the coast
of Rhode Island that will use State Pier in New London as its staging and
assembly hub, moved closer to federal approval on Monday.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management announced it
had completed a final environmental review of the proposed wind farm,
which would have up to 100 wind turbines capable of generating up to 880
megawatts to power more than 300,000 homes.
The proposed wind farm, about 12 miles southwest of Martha’s
Vineyard, would supply electricity to both Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Electricity would travel from the wind turbines via cables connected onshore to
a substation at Quonset Point in Rhode Island.
The environmental impact study is the last hurdle before
BOEM issues a decision this summer on whether to “approve, approve with
modification, or disapprove” the project. The study analyzes the impact of wind
farms on everything from marine life to the commercial fishing industry and is
supposed to address any concerns raised during a comment period.
“BOEM used the feedback we received from Tribal Nations,
industry, ocean users, communities, and stakeholders to help inform our
decisions throughout the environmental review process and ensure that we are
addressing potential impacts,” BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein said in a
statement on Monday. “This milestone represents another important step forward
in building a new clean energy economy here in the United States.”
Revolution Wind is a joint venture between Danish offshore
wind company Ørsted and Eversource, the same team that has invested more than
$77 million in the reconstruction of State Pier in New London and millions more
in an offshore wind construction hub at the Port of Providence and an
operations hub at Quonset Point in North Kingstown, R.I.
The partners have plans for two other farms, Sunrise Wind
and South Fork Wind. South Fork is a smaller scale wind farm now under
construction off the coast of Long Island. Eversource recently announced it was withdrawing from
the offshore wind business to concentrate on electricity distribution.
Julia Bovey, the director of external affairs for Offshore
Wind, Eversource, called the release of the environmental study a “major
milestone” and thanked the Biden Administration for its continued commitment to
“the critical renewable energy infrastructure necessary to achieve our clean
energy goals.”
“This essential project is already benefiting local
communities, establishing a new, homegrown supply chain, and creating job
opportunities for workers in the industries of tomorrow, today,” she said in a
statement. “We look forward to helping Connecticut and Rhode Island grow their
green economies, as we work towards a carbon-free future that we can all be proud
of.”
The Biden administration has a goal of 30 gigawatts of
offshore wind energy capacity by 2030. That would power about 10 million homes.
State Pier, on the Thames River in New London, remains under
construction but has already received a shipment of offshore wind parts for the
South Fork Wind project being constructed off the coast of Long Island.
Construction costs at State Pier have steadily risen since
the project was first conceived. The cost topped the $309 million mark
recently. The Connecticut Port Authority secured $30 million more from the state last month and $23.7 million from Ørsted
and Eversource to allow it to complete the project by the end of the year.
Obstacles, in the form of higher-than-expected rock elevation in places where
piles are being driven at the pier, have driven up costs.
The Connecticut Port Authority, at a special meeting on
Tuesday, quickly allocated the new funds approved at the June 30 Bond
Commission meeting.
“I’m sure I speak for everybody. No more. This is it,” said
Port Authority Board member John Johnson, after the approval of a revised
contract with construction manager Kiewit Infrastructure Co.
Port Authority Board Chairman David Kooris, at Tuesday’s
meeting, acknowledged “no additional funding is available,” outside of the more
than $6 million in contingency funds.