New Canaan’s renovated Town Hall is starting to take physical shape this week, with the appearance of a steel skeleton behind the original building that will be fully installed by June 20, officials say.
The first of three “bays” out back of Town Hall—a major part of the buildings renovation—now are outlined in steel frames, and the project’s construction manager says the entire steel skeleton should be up by June 20. Credit: Michael Dinan
Pictured at right, the steel structure will hold the renovated Town Hall’s vault, clerk’s office and other miscellaneous offices, said Joseph Zagarenski of Bridgeport-based firm The McLoud Group, which is overseeing the project as construction manager.
“The nuts and bolts of it are that that’s the first bay of three, so you’ll see the next two bays and a complete structure up here at the end of the month,” Zagarenski said.
The approximately $18 million renovation of Town Hall is on schedule and budget, officials have said. (Here are some renderings of the renovated New Canaan Town Hall from White Plains, NY-based KSQ Architects, article continues below.)
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Selectman Beth Jones after board meetings regularly tours the site and receives project updates from Zagarenski and New Canaan Department of Public Works Director Mike Pastore. Jones said the experts’ guidance at the building site has been quite an education and “very, very interesting.”
“They are very hopeful to have the building completely closed in by October, so they’ll be working on the interior by winter and are working on the old part of the building in the meantime.”
Preserving the original 1909 structure, which was designed by Edgar Alonzo Josseyln, has been one major guiding principle of the project, overseen on the town’s side by Pastore and an all-volunteer committee that includes First Selectman Rob Mallozzi.
Asked about the project and the steel frame taking shape specifically, Mallozzi said he was “excited to see this manifestation of our new Town Hall” where all major services will be centralized.
“People now understand the place it’s going to be holding on that campus,” Mallozzi said. “There’s a full sense of scale now that the steel is going up.”