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A California-based developer plans to knock down six industrial buildings and two houses on Congress and Davenport Avenues and build a 194-unit luxury…

When Chelsea Norton returned to the office in February, after an almost two-year stretch of working from home, she was blown away by her new surroundings. “I’ve honestly never really been in an environment quite like it,” said Norton, a senior copywriter at marketing firm Overabove. The company had spent time during the pandemic securing a new space in Chester, and fitting it out to look – well, not too much like an office.

Hartford, CT (PRWEB) January 11, 2022 -- Gilbane Building Company is proud to announce that the 350,000-SF, $205M Connecticut State Office Building

COVID-19 will push nursing home design forward The second-floor courtyard at the Southington Care Center. Myles Brown Over 40 percent of American deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been nursing home residents. Outdated nursing home designs contributed to the scale of this tragedy in Connecticut. Many design changes that could have prevented the spread of COVID-19 were already needed to improve the well-being of nursing home residents. The pandemic has made these issues impossible to ignore. A ...

Cloe Poisson / CTMirror.org A Hartford architect says outdated nursing home designs probably contributed to the rampant spread of the coronavirus among nursing home communities. Myles Brown, a principal at Amenta Emma Architects, says many nursing homes statewide are decades old and were designed in a way that discourages social distancing. Though he acknowledges the cost of either retrofitting existing homes or building new ones will be high, he says the cost of doing nothing will be high...