Kay Companies completes Conn whole foods market.The Kay Companies, a New England-based general construction and construction management firm, announced that it has completed construction of a 47,000 s/f Whole Foods Market in West Hartford West Hartford, town (1990 pop. 60,110), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford; settled c.1679, inc. 1854. Industrial production, which comprises a geographically small part of West Hartford, includes machine tools and parts, aircraft accessories, air , Conn. Mercantile Relating to trade or commerce; commercial; having to do with the business of buying and selling; relating to merchants. A mercantile agency is an individual or company in the business of collecting data about the financial status, ability, and credit of individuals Construction Corp., the Connecticut subsidiary of The Kay Companies, built the building shell and did the sitework for an affiliate of Carpenter & Company. Mercantile Construction also built out the interior for Whole Foods Market, the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods. Located at 50 Raymond Road, the 47,000 s/f store, which opened last month, offers a vast array of features, including restaurant-quality prepared foods, specialty foods, soup and salad bars, as well as expansive meet, poultry, seafood seafood Edible aquatic animals excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Seafood includes bony and cartilaginous fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, edible jellyfish, sea turtles, frogs, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. and produce departments, all with the convenience of one-stop grocery shopping. The store also includes a dining area and an outside cafe. "Our goal was to get this store ready to open on the original completion deadline, so we had anywhere from 50 to 200 people working on this project at any one time," said Bernard F. Lannquist, president of Mercantile Construction. "Thankfully thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. , we were able to accomplish this. We are pleased with the store's appearance and think it adds nicely to the already thriving downtown West Hartford area." Mercantile Construction began working on the core and shell portion of the project, which also included a 33,100 s/f underground parking garage, last September, with the demolition of three buildings on the site and remediation of soils. Mercantile then erected the base building, which was comprised of a structural steel frame with a masonry masonry: see brick; concrete; stonework; tile. masonry Craft of building in stone, brick, or block. By 4000 BC, Egypt had developed an elaborate cut-stone technique. and clapboard clapboard (klăb`ərd), board used for the exterior finish of a wood-framed building and attached horizontally to the wood studs. The word, in its original and strict use, refers to a product of New England; boards of similar type made elsewhere skin. In addition, Mercantile constructed a roofing system that was a combination of a flat rubber roof enhanced with shingle-covered mansards. The Whole Foods Market is the first grocery store to operate in West Hartford Center in more than 15 years. |
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