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High-Profile Focus: Restoration and Renovation
September 2021 February 2025
Universal Provides Historic Replica Organizations andWindows Eventsfor Artist-Themed Affordable Housing PWC CT Welcomes New Board Hartford, CT – The Professional Women in Construction Connecticut Chapter (PWC CT) recently welcomed its new board of directors for the 2021-2022 program year. Patricia Bilotto returns as chapter president. She is the manager of marketing and business development for van Zelm Engineers. She has nearly 30 years of experience in marketing, communications, and business development in the AEC industry, and presently serves on the program, membership, and awards committees.
The former Briscoe School, now Beverly Village and Arts Center Fitchburg Arts Community The 2021-2022 PWC CT boardUniversal (l-r): Choity Khan, Blerina Pina, Amy Ray, Patricia Bilotto, Dawn Meeker, Laurann Asklof, Carolyn Kurth, 350 Marlborough, MA – Universal Window preference for artists. Longtime project, a critical component in securing Universal provided approximately Kyma Ganzer, and Jennifer Marks. Not pictured: Kim Colapietro and Ronald Paolillo and Door has provided historic replica Window partner, Keith Construction, historic replica windows from their 550
windows for the recent transformations of multiple former school buildings into affordable housing, including two that included live/work studios reserved for artists and those in the arts community. The first, theprincipal Fitchburg Arts Laurann Asklof, of Shipman Community, provides mixed-income, & Goodwin, LLP, will 68 serve on the board artist-preference apartments in three as vice president. She has approximately former municipal 30 years historic of experience in thebuildings area of in Fitchburg.law Theandsecond, the She Beverly construction litigation. will Village fortoLiving & the in Arts, 85 continue participate thecreated chapter’s income-restricted apartments for people programs, mentorship, and scholarship aged 55+ and six live/work studios with a committees.
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wasCarolyn the construction for both Kurth, manager CPA, CFE, of projects. CohnReznick, will return as treasurer. Fitchburg Arts Community was SheThe serves on the scholarship committee. developed by NewVue Dawn Meeker, director Communities at Marcum, in collaboration witha second the Fitchburg LLP, is returning for year as Art Museum. Designed ICON, the chapter secretary. She nowbyserves as the Fitchburg Arts offers as68a membership chairCommunity and will continue studio, 1-,on 2-,the andawards 3-bedroom apartments volunteer committee. as Kim part ofColapietro, a renovation of the ofhistoric partner EDI former BF LLC, Brown School, High School Landscape, returns for her third year Annex and She City serves Stables. Universal on the board. as the awards supplied over 250 energy-efficient historic committee chair. windows the project 550 Series for the Kyma from Ganzer, manager at
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the historic rehabilitation tax credit that can offsetBuilding up to 20% of a returns developer’s LaRosa Group, for expenditures. Qualifying projects must be her second year as a director. She is the certified byofthetheMassachusetts Historical recipient 2019/2020 PWC CT the Commission and are when Rising Star Award. Sheearned will serve on the completed project is placed in service. mentorship committee. The Fitchburg Arts Community Choity Khan, associate attorney at Robinson Cole, makes her debut on the apartments will be primarily reserved board as a director. She presently for artists, defined as those whoserves are on the mentorship committee. passionate about their art. Artists don’t Jennifer Marks, at but BL need to make their livingprincipal from the arts, Companies, returns for her second they do need to be involved in creating art year. She will serve as the mentorship in a meaningful way. The Fitchburg Arts committee chair. Community will also feature public art, gallery and studio space, and a landscape plan that knits the entire site together by creating an arts campus that connects to the Fitchburg Art Museum. The Beverly Village for Living & the Arts was co-developed by Beacon Communities and Harbor Lights and combines affordable senior housing, integrated wellness services, and a vibrant arts scene. The project transformed the former Briscoe School, built in 1923, into 85 apartments reserved for 55+ renters with incomes between 30% and 60% of AMI, with six live/work studios with a preference for artists. Keith Construction was the construction manager, and SV Design was the architecture firm on the project.
Double Hung Series and Ronald Paolillo, M. worked Arch ofclosely DRA with SV Design identically replicate Architects, beginsto his third term. He the original windows, installed over a serves on the PWC CT’s scholarship century ago. While meeting the stringent committee. requirements of Pina, the surety Massachusetts Blerina (Bela) territory Historical the new windows manager Commission, at Nationwide, returns for feature with thermal a secondinsulated year. Sheglass volunteers on the breaks, designed to ensure modern energy chapter’s communications committee. efficiency that meets today’s Amy Ray, director of building business codes. development at EDM, makes her In addition to the apartment units, debut as a director. She serves as the the former auditoriumcommittee is being preserved for communications chair and future useofasthea programs community performing volunteer committee. arts space, maintaining the building’s historic connection to its community. The former gymnasium will house resident amenities including a community room, computer learning center, wellness and fitness spaces, library and reading room, and a workshop. Outdoor amenity spaces include a terrace and patio. “Universal Window is proud to continue our relationships with Keith Construction and best-in-class historic preservation developers and architects in preserving and repurposing these former municipal buildings,” said Jim Finn, president and CEO of Universal Window and Door. “In addition to creating muchneeded affordable housing, they are creating space for the arts, strengthening the fabric of their communities.”
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