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Building Foundations: Carr Concrete Located in the heart of Westbrook, Conn., Carr Concrete, founded in 2009 by Kris Carr, has grown from a small company focused on residential projects to a team of 14 that sees mainly commercial work jobs. Morin Concrete, a business started by his grandfather in 1958, introduced Carr to the industry. As a middle and high school student, Carr worked with
his uncle, learning the trade and laying the foundation for his future. By 2008, as the economy faltered, Carr found himself on the edge of a challenging landscape. “I graduated high school in 2008, and it just all started going downhill fast,” he said. “Big companies were struggling; work dried up. That’s when I started doing
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In Reversal, MassDOT Decides Boston’s Allston Project to Include Large Rail Yard In an e-mail to elected officials during the first week of December, Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt wrote that the state’s plans for a new $2 billion highway interchange in Allston “will include layover tracks for MBTA/Compass Rail trains, two express tracks for the Worcester Mainline, and a larger buffer path,” contrary to comments she had made earlier this year. The announcement generates yet another major point of uncertainty for the Allston Multimodal Project, which, although in the planning stages for over a decade, still faces
major unresolved logistical conflicts, financing shortfalls and environmental permitting challenges. Jessica Robertson, an Allston resident and neighborhood representative to MassDOT’s project task force, told StreetsblogMASS that Tibbits-Nutt’s statement took many stakeholders by surprise. “It’s a dramatic reversal, and this decision was made behind closed doors, with zero communication with the task force or any of the other stakeholders,” she said. see ALLSTON page 18