Kay completes a Supermarket job.The Kay KAY Kick Ass Year KAY Kansas Association of Youth Companies announced that it has completed construction of a new 60,000 s/f Stop & Shop Supermarket at Southbury Plaza in Southbury, Conn. The supermarket opened to shoppers recently. 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., a subsidiary of The Kay Companies, served as the general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. for the project, which got underway last spring. Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is the largest food retailer in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. and operates more than 345 stores in New England, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and New Jersey combined. Along with constructing the new store, Kay also upgraded the parking area and installed a new septic septic /sep·tic/ (sep´tik) pertaining to sepsis. sep·tic adj. 1. Of, relating to, having the nature of, or affected by sepsis. 2. system for the entire plaza. "This was an exciting and challenging project for us, especially considering it took place in a busy retail plaza with other merchants and the general shopping public going about their business around us," said Bernie Lannquist, president of Mercantile Construction. "We also had the goal of getting the store open before Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. , which meant we worked on a fast-track schedule. In the end, it all worked out well as we accomplished our goal and kept disruptions at the plaza to a minimum." To accomplish these goals, Mercantile worked in phases, focusing on one section of the project at a time. For each section, Mercantile used Jersey Barriers and gates to separate itself from the rest of the plaza in designated "Work Only" areas. This allowed general traffic to flow in and out of the plaza and provided ample parking to visitors. This process was repeated with every section of the project. To further insure minimum disruptions, Mercantile created truck-only access roads away from shoppers, so deliveries could be made and debris could be hauled out. The company also scheduled material deliveries at night and performed any tasks deemed overly disruptive disruptive /dis·rup·tive/ (-tiv) 1. bursting apart; rending. 2. causing confusion or disorder. after the shops had closed. To reach the anticipated opening date of October, Kay implemented a fast-track construction schedule, an approach that allows for the earliest completion time possible by overlapping the design and construction phases of the project. By working closely with the architect and the engineer of the project, Kay worked in phases as opposed to waiting for the whole project to be designed before beginning construction. Landry Architects served as the project's architect. Engineering services were provided by Wagner Engineering Associates, Inc. |
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