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From Parking Lot to Plaza MassDevelopment has awarded a $10,000 grant to the North Adams Chamber of Commerce to transform the Center Street parking lot at 55 Veterans Memorial Dr. […]
Summer Special By Mark Morris In the old days — prior to the pandemic — when homeowners wanted to make improvements to their property, they called several contractors for competitive […]
The Clock Is Ticking With state financing now in place, construction is expected to begin in early 2022 on a $29.9 million project to transform the landmark Mill 8 […]
Target Acquired The Baker-Polito administration recently announced it has established an ambitious greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions-reduction goal for the next three-year Mass Save Energy Efficiency Plan. The goals, established as part […]
Survey Says Home renovation spending has grown 15% in the last year to a median $15,000, according to the tenth annual Houzz & Home survey of more than 70,000 U.S. […]
Framing the Issue Few industries have been immune to the supply shortages and rising costs that have plagued the world economy over the past few months, but construction is especially […]
Air Apparent Never underestimate the influence of a teacher. Or, in Scott Cernak’s case, two of them, who taught plumbing when he was a student at Smith Vocational & Agricultural […]
Soaring Again MassDevelopment has provided an $800,000 loan to Eagle Mill Redevelopment, LLC, which is using the proceeds to redevelop the former Eagle Mill and surrounding parcels in Lee […]
Upscale but Simple While interior-design trends in homes can be slow to change — and, in many ways, have been, as evidenced by the white and grey colors that still […]
A New Environment The world of development — and all the stakeholders who interact within in, from contractors to engineers; from regulators to municipal officials — have certainly been impacted […]
Building Momentum The past year has been an unusual time for the construction industry — one marked by project postponements, soaring prices for materials, and the establishment of strict COVID […]
Firm Foundation Mark Sullivan wasn’t unlike countless other business owners, watching the COVID-19 story develop last February and March and wondering how his construction firm, D.A. Sullivan & Sons Inc., […]
Starts and Stops Total construction starts fell 2% nationally in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $797.3 billion, according to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics. […]
Backyard Experience By Mark Morris On a Thursday in February while snow fell on the region, Bob Schwein was answering a steady stream of phone calls at Drewnowski Pools. […]
Fueling Interest By Mark Morris John Majercak likes to say the Center for EcoTechnology (CET) has been successful for 45 years because it’s willing to try out approaches to saving […]
