For Geoffrey Brys, Calliope Gallagher, Michael Pelletier and roughly 400 other students in Bristol, Monday was more than the start of new classes: It was the first day in a newly opened school.
Wheeler Health – which has several family health and wellness centers in central Connecticut – announced Monday that it has brought on New Britain-based Downes Construction Co. to oversee construction of a new planned 46,000-square-foot community health center and administrative headquarters on Hope Street in Bristol.
Construction on the project is expected to start this fall. Wheeler said it has already reached 80% of its $500,000 project fundraising goal.
Officials gathered on Friday, June 17, to celebrate a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Rogers High School in Newport, R.I. The school’s existing facility opened in 1957 and was “in the worst shape” in comparison to more than 300 schools around the state, according to local news.
After decades of worsening stagnancy, Bristol’s downtown is in the midst of a large-scale makeover with at several major construction projects either under way or imminent.