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Connecticut H.F. Lenz Develops ‘Building Community’ Initiative, Continues Market Expansion Efforts Middletown, CT – H.F Lenz Company, a multi-discipline engineering firm, has been developing a community-based initiative set to launch this year, the same year in which it will be celebrating its 75th year anniversary and the 10 year anniversary of its Middletown office. The firm’s New England regional manager, Scott Kraynak, P.E., explains, “We felt strongly about giving back to the community that has been so welcoming and so good to us. We’re rolling up
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our sleeves and getting more involved with this new initiative.” The Building Community initiative aims to serve struggling segments of the Middletown community through a supporting platform of local AEC industry contacts. Leaders of the firm say their efforts to consider community involvement as an integral aspect of their mission statement is an important step in progress toward a more equitable and inclusive
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AEC industry, and that the launch of this initiative is an example of the firm’s ongoing commitment to helping further develop the community, having built solid client relationships in multiple markets including data centers, higher education, science and technology, healthcare, sports and recreation, K-12 and mission critical. The team at H.F. Lenz continues to expand their partnerships on a number
of projects they say have already directly improved and served local communities across New England, such as their MEP design work alongside Connecticut architectural firm, S/L/A/M, on the multiaward-winning Sacred Heart University’s Bobby Valentine Health and Recreation Center Project, Yale University, and UCONN.
Planners Selected for Redevelopment Middletown, CT – City of Middletown mayor, Ben Florsheim, announced that the City of Middletown has elected to hire architecture and urban design firm Cooper Robertson for the development of a master plan for riverfront redevelopment. The team will also include Langan, an engineering and environmental services firm, and Karp Strategies, a firm dedicated to community-driven economic development strategy. “I am thrilled to be getting the riverfront master plan underway, and so excited for the work this community is going to do together with Cooper Robertson and team,” Florsheim said. “The level of talent, vision, and experience that they bring to the table matches the extraordinary potential and opportunity that exists on our riverfront, and their strong focus on community engagement will ensure that this will be a peopledriven process leading to the outcome we all want: a riverfront that has something for everyone.” In the coming weeks, the city will announce the beginning of the public engagement initiative to introduce the
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riverfront master planning team to the community at large, establish a timeframe and budget, and start the process of creating an action-oriented plan for the future of Middletown’s riverfront. “Cooper Robertson understands the importance of putting the public and community at the center of the planning process, and we look forward to working together with residents and City of Middletown staff to develop a riverfront plan that is sustainable in the broadest sense of the word: environmentally, socially and economically,” said Mike Aziz, Cooper Robertson’s project director.
