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A truck backed over a gas valve
at a South Burlington construction site Friday morning, starting a leak and a fire that damaged the truck and scorched part of a condominium under construction on Lime Kiln Road.
Nobody was hurt. The construction site was evacuated, but residents of nearby homes and condominiums were allowed to stay.
A fork lift-type truck backed over the valve at about 10:15 Friday morning, South Burlington Fire Capt. Matt Vinci said.
The fire burned under the truck for at least a half hour, and set fire to the exterior of the condominium. Damage to the building was slight, Vinci said.
Vermont Gas Systems Inc. quickly shut the gas line down, but it took until shortly before 11 a.m. until all the gas had drained from the line, Vinci said. Firefighters soaked the building's exterior and the truck until all the gas drained from the line and the fire went out, he said.
-- From staff reports
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Architectural Salvage Warehouse
Specializes in Architectural Antiques -- stained glass, fireplace mantels, pillars, early hardware, clawfoot bathtubs, french doors, art deco lighting, marble & pedestal sinks, and fretwork.
Bard Home Decorating
has been in the floor covering business for over 40 years, striving to give our customers quality products and customer satisfaction.
We are Vermont's largest floor covering showroom specializing in carpet, ceramic tile, vinyl, wood, laminate, area rugs, wall and window coverings for both residential and commercial applications.
Whether you have a small renovation project or are building a new home, our professional staff makes your decorating experience pleasant and enjoyable from start to finish.
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Bath Fitter
can install a beautiful high-gloss acrylic bathtub right over your old, worn-out tub. Custom molded for a perfect fit, you'll be using your new tub the same day!
BATH FITTER® one-piece, seamless bath walls are installed right over over existing walls. No more grout to clean! No more loose tiles!
We do showers, too!
Since 1984, BATH FITTER® has been providing the perfect bath renovation solution for owners of private homes, hotels, motels, apartment buildings and hospitals all across North America.
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construction officially started in the Winooski
on their huge and long-awaited redevelopment project. Winooski's big dig got underway Thursday and the Governor was here about two hours ago to kick it all off. Governor Douglas got the word from federal officials around noon Thursday on a central financial aspect and he rushed to Winooski to share it with the city.
Governor Douglas personally delivered the good news about a federal loan approving an essential million loan guarantee for the million Winooski Redevelopment Project.
The loans guarantee means that the redevelopment project will start in about eight weeks, on April 15. The project includes plans for more than 600 units of mixed housing, a one thousand space parking garage, and dramatic increases in retail and business space. Still needed is state approval of another 25 million dollar loan guarantee,
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Curtis Lumber
is a family owned company that has been around since 1890. Now with 22 locations across New York and Vermont, we will be able to combine our resources and provide you with exceptional service.
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Developers say it's a key building-lot in the Queen City
and they're banking on approval to build a ten-story structure there, with nearly 50 condominiums, two commercial spaces, and a three level parking garage.
... The plan is laid out before the Burlington Development Review Board and a crowd with mixed feelings about the project, Tuesday night.
... Some argue the ten-story structure is too large for the location at the corner of Pine and College Streets. Others say it will block valuable views and change Burlington's skyline.
Right now, an elderly housing complex on St. Paul Street is the tallest building in Burlington at 124 feet. The proposed structure would be 24 feet shorter at 100 feet-- similar to the building at 7 Burlington Square.
... Under city ordinance, buildings can only be 60 feet tall. So, developers must get approval for the extra 40 feet. These are called "height bonuses." They're offered by the city if affordable units and public parking are included in the project, and both will be.
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Dig Safe System, Inc.
is a communication network, assisting excavators, contractors and property owners in complying with state laws that "require anyone who digs to notify utility companies before starting," and for good reason. Digging can be dangerous and costly without knowing where underground facilities are located. Dig Safe System, Inc. will notify member companies of proposed excavation projects. In turn, these member utilities respond to the work area and identify the location of underground facilities. Callers are given a permit number as confirmation.
Member utilities, or contracted private locators, use paint, stakes or flags to identify the location of buried facilities. Color coding is used to identify the type of underground facilities.
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Dore and Whittier, Inc
is a full service architectural and project management firm with over 25 years of experience on projects throughout New England and New York.
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Dynapower Corporation
Freeman French Freeman
considers itself the premiere architectural firm in Vermont. Founded in 1937, the firm provides design and construction service throughout New England.
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Great Northern Construction Company
(work from) an unassuming two-room office on lower Church Street in Burlington.
"As a two-person office, we are comfortable putting out a couple million dollars worth of construction projects each year," 51-year old Schwartz says. GNC works on a mix of residential and commercial projects, although the jobs are "slanted more toward residential right now," he says. "Since the beginning, the balance between residential and commercial has shifted depending on the market." The company can handle up to three jobs simultaneously.
Since 1976, Schwartz and the Great Northern team have worked on hundreds of homes and businesses. Some of the commercial work has been on familiar buildings throughout Chittenden County, such as the King Street Youth Center, the Howard Opera House, Burlington Square Mall.... GNC's specialty, however, is high-end residential renovation and remodeling. Its custom work on private homes has earned the company numerous distinctions and awards....
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Lacey's
has been proudly serving the greater Burlington area for over 60 years at our location at 2000 Williston Road in South Burlington. We are a family-owned business with over 150 years worth of experience in our sales and installation departments! We sell, install, and service carpet, rugs, vinyl, vinyl tile, ceramic tile, and laminate flooring. We also clean wall-to-wall rugs in your home and area rugs in our warehouse. We repair rugs also - please call with your specific problem to see if we can help! Please stop by our showroom today to see the thousands of beautiful flooring choices available from Lacey's - a Vermont tradition since 1939!
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Low interest rates and rising real estate prices are
forcing many Vermonters to invest in their current homes. At Prime Construction, remodeling business is up 25% over last year, and there is no slow down in sight, as the contractor is booked for the next three months.
"We are doing a lot of additions, we're doing a lot of what we call mother-in-law apartments," Prime President Mike Gervais says. Kitchen and bath renovations are big, energy types of renovation, new windows, siding roofing, that type of thing. It's all big, people are putting money back into their homes."
That demand has left some homeowners out in the cold with few contractors to choose from.
But that doesn't have to be a problem, if you are patient and plan ahead.
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Main Street Landing Company
is dedicated to sustainable development in Burlington, Vermont, currently focusing on responsible redevelopment of the Burlington waterfront. ... We are a company with a vision that includes environmentalism and social conscience. We build buildings, and we build relationships. We own most of the developable land on Burlington, Vermont's waterfront. This is an area that in the mid-1800s was the third largest lumber port in the world. That's why we call ourselves redevelopers. Our project is a 25-year plan and we just completed Phase One. We expect another four phases before we finish our life's work. ... Lisa Steele and Melinda Moulton are the principal partners of the Main Street Landing Company. They have been involved in environmental and socially conscious redevelopment since the early 1980's.
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Pleasants Hardware Company is now called arc one.
Formed in 2005 out of Pleasants Hardware and its entities, arc one is the largest value added distributor of commercial doors, hardware, and security solutions. Building on Pleasants Hardware's long and distinguished history of serving the building trade (circa 1913), the company has evolved from a diversified hardware wholesaler and retailer in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina market, to a focused, value-added distributor in the commercial door, hardware, specialty product, and security industries with a leading national market presence.
arc one builds on the strengths of the former Pleasants Hardware Company and its entities (elph-Context Company, Jno. Worner Hardware Corporation, HCI/Craftsmen Corporation, Phillips Architectural Products Inc., Hardware Services Inc., Builders Hardware Corporation, Opening Specialty and Supply Inc.) to provide a single unified entity with 26 branch locations nationally.
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Vermont's development review law, Act 250, has fueled
disagreements over growth and development since the law was enacted over thirty years ago. One project has simmered in controversy for half that long -- fifteen years -- and is still the subject of a legal dispute that will continue next week
Overlooking lake Champlain lies one of Burlington's oldest and most secluded neighborhoods, Starr Farm beach, a series of summer camps dating from a hundred years ago. "It all lends itself to very low traffic, very low impact," Starr Farm Beach Camp Owners' Association. president Bill Parkhill explained. On the other side of a row of trees, developer Frank von Turkovitch doggedly pursues plans to build 148 units of rental apartments and condominiums. Already, part of the site on nearly 41 acres of woods and meadowland has been cleared. Two groups of neighbors -- the Starr Farm Camp Owners' Association and Sunset Cliff Association -- will try to win a legal order to halt the work.
The opponents say it's not NIMBY -- not in my back yard --
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W. G. Russell Supply Corp
considers itself
Vermont's leader in the Industrial, Contractor, and Woodworking Supply field. There are over 350,000 priced and ready to ship items on this site. Russell Supply started in 1974, has six outside field sales representatives equipped with the latest technology to service your needs in addition to the inside staff to handle your warehouse, store, computer, and telephone sales and request.
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Winooski Redevelopment is Back On Track.
Winooski's downtown redevelopment plan has faced many setbacks -- so many that even Winooski residents were skeptical that it would ever happen. But a new plan with a few critical changes has won the official support of the Douglas administration. The promise of support for a federal loan under HUD's Section 108 construction loan program considerably enhances the viability of the project.
... But now the project is ready to fly. Just six months ago, governor Jim Douglas rejected the city's original application for the federal loan worth over million. Now the governor embraces the project. The difference was the addition of HallKeen, a Boston development company that brings both expertise and private investment.
... The plan includes six-hundred units of mixed-income housing, including 150 luxury riverfront condominiums, 250 mixed-income units, a hundred units in the Champlain mill and a hundred University of Vermont-affiliated units.
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Woodline Floors
is a family owned and operated business that offers sales, installation, sanding & finishing of hardwood and softwood flooring.
Woodline Sanding & Refinishing began in 1984, offering installation, sanding & finishing services. We soon realized that there was a need for a place where people could go and look at the wide variety of choices offered in hardwood flooring. We opened Woodline Floor Sales Showroom in February 1994 and have been here ever since.
We offer all varieties of domestic woods; Red & White Oak, Cherry, Red & Yellow Birch, Ash, Maple, etc. We also are proud to offer African and Brazilian species as well. We are confident that if you stop by our showroom and speak to one of our wood flooring specialists, you will find just the right wood to meet your decorating needs.
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arc one
is the largest value added distributor of commercial doors, hardware, and security solutions. Building on Pleasants Hardware's long and distinguished history of serving the building trade (circa 1913), the company has evolved from a diversified hardware wholesaler and retailer in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina market, to a focused, value-added distributor in the commercial door, hardware, specialty product, and security industries with a leading national market presence.
arc one builds on the strengths of the former Pleasants Hardware Company and its entities (elph-Context Company, Jno. Worner Hardware Corporation, HCI/Craftsmen Corporation, Phillips Architectural Products Inc., Hardware Services Inc., Builders Hardware Corporation, Opening Specialty and Supply Inc.) to provide a single unified entity with 26 branch locations nationally.
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Burlington's City Council voted unanimously Monday night to move
forward on a plan to build a hotel and condominium complex at Battery and Cherry streets.
The approval authorizes Mayor Peter Clavelle to buy 1.2 acres north of the Radisson Hotel and to enter into agreements with the developers. Westlake Hospitality, Westlake Garage and Westlake Residential Partners will develop the land, according to the resolution passed Monday.
Construction is expected to begin in about two years and be completed in four, according to a timeline provided by the city's Community and Economic Development Office.
Construction has started on an "affordable housing"
project near Burlington's Lake Champlain waterfront.
The 40-apartment building should be completed by fall 2004, said Brenda Torpy, Burlington Community Land Trust executive director.
The L-shaped building, to include a parking garage, is being built on city-owned land between Depot and Lake streets, adjacent to the skate park and the old Moran electric plant.
Mayor Peter Clavelle said the project has been in the works since the mid-1980s -- a time when the waterfront was an "urban wasteland" of abandoned industrial sites.
"I'm real excited about this project," he said, speaking over the thump and vibration of earthmovers on the site. It is "the conversion of a brownfield into housing. Waterfront Apartments clearly demonstrates our city's commitment to a 24-hour, four-season downtown waterfront accessible to citizens of all incomes."
Thirty-two of the apartments will be reserved for families at or below Burlington-area median income levels,
Efficiency Vermont
helps you identify the most cost-effective ways to reduce energy use in your home or business. Your energy efficiency investments will pay off now and in the future, by reducing your energy costs, strengthening our economy and protecting our environment. ... Get tips on lowering your energy bills, figure out why your electric bills are high, get rebates, coupons, learn the facts about the best energy-efficient products, find Vermont's top energy-efficient homebuilders.
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Green design is growing in the Green Mountains.
Winooski's downtown development has been lauded for its revitalization effort. Plans to incorporate green design principles into South Burlington's future City Center and Retrovest's South Village development are under way. Other local projects are soon to follow.
Supporters of "smart growth" call current conditions of rapid economic and population growth, depleted natural resources and damaged ecosystems a global environmental crisis -- and a direct result of conventional design practices undertaken without regard for environmental effects.
Green design, also known as sustainable design, offers a means for reducing those impacts in the future.
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PCI Lighting Control Systems
was founded in 1982, manufacturing Building Automation control systems. After several successful years in the building controls market, PCI lead the way by manufacturing digital lighting control panels like the WatchKeeper series lighting controllers.
All of our systems are manufactured right here in the United States at our facility in South Burlington , Vermont. Our fully trained staff of service technicians is ready to help you with any specification, installation or operation problems you might have. Count on PCI Lighting Control Systems to provide outstanding products and services. You have more than just our word on it. You have our guarantee
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Red House
is a building and restoration company based in Burlington, Vermont with a focus on timeless craftsmanship. We are a full service building company specializing in highly crafted building projects which span from contemporary mountain retreats to meticulously restored historic buildings. Red House is a dynamic company that excels at meeting the challenges of unique and demanding building projects with our team of professional and dependable craftspeople and project managers.
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Snyder Homes announced that the company has received the Home Builders
and Remodelers Association of Northern Vermont Better Homes Award for Best Luxury Home—homes valued at more than,000,000 category. The winning entry was a home built by Snyder Homes in South Burlingtonin 2006.
The award was presented to Snyder Homes at the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Northern Vermont Better Homes Awards banquet at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington on October 11, 2007. The Better Homes Awards are given annually, based on submissions from members, and provide recognition of superior residential and commercial construction. Judging is conducted by a different Home Builders Association and criteria includes: building; design; efficient utilization of space; innovative use of materials, products or construction practices; compatibility with existing environment; site design and
landscape; craftsmanship; and energy saving design and materials.
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Urban planning wonks call it infill development.
It's just home, though, to renters who this month started moving into a new South Burlington neighborhood taking shape on vacant land wedged between Farrell Street and U.S. 7.
One of four buildings at the new O'Dell Apartments is open and the rest are nearing completion. A new stretch of east-west road opened this month, providing a direct connection between Farrell and busy U.S. 7 -- a main artery into Burlington.
... The new buildings and road represent the first phase of a multi-year makeover that is eventually slated to include senior housing, stores, offices and an extended- stay hotel. An adjacent shopping plaza, The Gateway, is being redeveloped with a new Shaw's supermarket as the anchor tenant.
The parcel is located at the southern entrance, near existing shops, public transit, offices and residential streets. The apartments, when complete, will total 160 units, with 124 units reserved for low- and moderate-income tenants. Rents will range from to .
Vermont Green Building Network
is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing Vermont’s participation in green building and to promoting the environmental, financial, community, and health benefits of green design, construction, and building operation practices. We are builders, designers, developers, policy makers, service providers, and other building industry professionals working together to improve building practices in Vermont.
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