| 05/17/2013 | City Says Fort Trumbull Development Delayed
Day, The (New London, CT)
May 17--NEW LONDON -- The first new construction in Fort Trumbull since the area became the focus of a national fight over eminent domain was delayed Thursday after developers apparently were unable to demonstrate how they were going to finance the $24 million Village on Thames project. |
| 05/17/2013 | Waterfront Developer Seeks to Enhance the Asbury Beach Experience
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
May 17--ASBURY PARK -- Facilities with private showers and air-conditioned bathrooms, storage areas for beachgoers and a hammock garden with landscaping are among the beachfront amenities the city's waterfront developer is proposing to lure and keep visitors at the beach. |
| 05/17/2013 | Fence around Tweed New Haven Regional Airport Subject to Delays
New Haven Register (CT)
May 17--NEW HAVEN -- A $1.89 million federal grant application is in the works to build a wildlife fence around Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in the wake of a collision between a deer and a private jet last September. |
| 05/16/2013 | Madison Approves $2M Town Center Project
New Haven Register (CT)
May 16--MADISON -- Planning and Zoning Commission members voted unanimously Thursday night in favor of the $2 million town center project. |
| 05/16/2013 | Plans Languish for Overhaul of NYC's Penn Station
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. |
| 05/16/2013 | North Carolina Developer Takes on Norwich Hotel Effort
Day, The (New London, CT)
May 16--NORWICH -- A North Carolina hotel developer has completed foreclosure action on an abandoned, partially constructed hotel project on Route 82 off Interstate 395 at Exit 80, and city officials say the firm hopes to complete construction. |
| 05/15/2013 | UIL Directors Sued Over Lax Oversight of Transmission Line Project
New Haven Register (CT)
May 15--As part of an ongoing legal battle with UIL Holdings, a New Rochelle, N.Y.-based construction contractor has filed a lawsuit against the energy holding company, charging that its nine-member board of directors breached their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. |
| 05/16/2013 | Officials Want Repairs to Lake Lenape Dam in Hamilton Township Completed
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
May 16--HAMILTON TOWNSHIP -- Local officials are looking to make long-overdue repairs to the county's largest and oldest dam this summer, enabling the water levels to be more easily controlled. |
| 05/15/2013 | Northfield to Probe Tilton Road Sewer Project
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
Northfield City Council agreed to create an ad hoc committee Tuesday to investigate how and when a sewer removal project on Tilton Road was approved. |
| 05/15/2013 | Scrapping of N.J.'s Iconic Roller Coaster Wrecked by Sandy Begins
Record, The; Bergen County, N.J.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS -- For the past six months, it has come to define the post-Sandy world at the Jersey Shore -- a steel skeleton sitting in the surf that was once the JetStar roller coaster. |
| 05/16/2013 | Lake Hayward Area Runoff Targeted by Eightmile River Group
Day, The (New London, CT)
May 16--EAST HADDAM -- Within the Eightmile River's 62-square-mile watershed, where about a third of the rural landscape is protected forest and open space, the neighborhoods of beach cottages and year-round homes around Lake Hayward are the nearest thing to a city. |
| 05/14/2013 | Dune-Protection Appeal Goes to N.J. High Court
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
May 14--TRENTON -- In a case with wide implications for Shore restoration following Hurricane Sandy, the state Supreme Court heard an appeal Monday of a $375,000 jury award to a Long Beach Island couple who said construction of a barrier dune in 2010 deprived them of their ocean view. |
| 05/14/2013 | Cuomo Outlines PSEG Plan
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New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo outlined a proposal Monday to give Newark-based Public Service Enterprise Group "full authority" to manage daily operations at Long Island's troubled electric utility. |
| 05/14/2013 | Repairs Begin on Collapsed Potsdam Hospital Campus Roof
Watertown Daily Times (NY)
May 14--POTSDAM -- Workers will begin repairs today on the damaged roof at the extension to Canton-Potsdam Hospital's campus at 49 Lawrence Ave. |
| 05/14/2013 | Local Fishermen Gain Victory Regarding Beesleys Point Bridge
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
May 14--Anglers won a big victory Monday as state Sen. Jeff Van Drew announced a plan that will allow them to continue to fish the Great Egg Harbor Bay waters around Drag Island. |
| 05/14/2013 | Northfield Councilman O'Neill Seeks Answers on Sewer Project
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
May 14--An expenditure of about $215,000 for sewer work does not appear to have been specifically approved by City Council, Northfield Councilman Jim O'Neill said -- and he wants to know when it was approved and who approved it. |
| 05/14/2013 | Assembly Environment Committee Releases Coastal Commission Bill
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
May 14--Revived after 25 years, the proposal for a new state Coastal Commission to regulate development and plan coastal engineering at the Shore cleared the state Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee. |
| 05/13/2013 | Ridgefield Set to Vote on New Civic Center
Record, The; Bergen County, N.J.
RIDGEFIELD -- Council elections are six months away, but campaigning is in full swing in the borough. |
| 05/13/2013 | Roof Buckles at Medical Clinic Addition in Potsdam, N.Y.
Watertown Daily Times (NY)
May 13--POTSDAM -- A section of roof under construction at Canton-Potsdam Hospital's Lawrence Avenue medical complex collapsed Sunday, presumably from high winds. |
| 05/12/2013 | Conn. Puts Expanded Use of Natural Gas to Test This Week
New Haven Register (CT)
May 12--The first real test of how receptive the public is to expanding natural gas usage in Connecticut begins this week. |
| 05/13/2013 | Egg Harbor City May Sell School Site to Builder for $1
Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
May 13--EGG HARBOR CITY -- A company that wants to build 100 units of low-income senior rental housing at the site of the former Fanny D. Rittenberg Middle School will pay $1 for the two-acre parcel of ground, rather than the $800,000 it agreed to pay in 2011, if City Council adopts an ordinance after a public hearing May 23. |
| 05/13/2013 | Landowner Revives Plan for Agricultural Park at Baggs Corner in Hounsfield
Watertown Daily Times (NY)
Interest in the study was renewed in February during discussions about the planned business park near the Watertown International Airport. |
| 05/13/2013 | East Lyme Assisted-Living Facility Planning to Build Addition
Day, The (New London, CT)
May 13--EAST LYME -- Plans are underway to expand the Crescent Point at Niantic assisted-living facility on Main Street and Lake Avenue. |
| 05/11/2013 | N.Y.C. Workers Replace Crane Damaged by Sandy
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - Workers in New York City carefully replaced the boom of a massive crane on Saturday, more than six months after it was twisted and warped by Superstorm Sandy and left dangling dangerously over the streets of Manhattan. |
| 05/10/2013 | Spire Permanently Installed on WTC Tower
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday was fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet. |
