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PetSmart recently opened its new location in Westfield, MA after completion by Fortunato Construction Group. This beautiful store has over 12,000 SQ FT of modern retail and pet care spaces. With perfectly appointed retail & sales areas, pet adoption rooms, indoor pet training areas, and back-of-house support areas, this store defines customer experience. Congrats to the PetSmart team! Nice work FCG PM Mike Niedomys and Super Joshua Radick!
This year’s Greens for Good Charity Golf Event will benefit Work Vessel for Vets (WVFV), a CT-based non-profit working to equip Veteran entrepreneurs. WVFV has served over 3800 Veterans with support for business enterprises or career education. The WVFV supported businesses have created 3,000+ new jobs and made a positive economic impact over $14 Million. This year’s Greens for Good will raise funds to support three Veterans with equipment to further their business ventures.
Jessica Idleman is the chief financial officer of Fortunato Construction Group, a Connecticut-based commercial construction firm. She has been with Fortunato for 12 years starting as assistant controller, making her way to chief financial officer. She leads the firm’s accounting department and plays a key role in the organization’s leadership team.
Successful commercial real estate (CRE) in 2024 is a smaller, smarter retail that creates community engagement. Neighborhood and community shopping centers offering a wide range of services and convenience closer to home attract consumers and thrive.
Fortunato Construction Group CFO, Jessica Idleman, was on hand at the Berlin High School Scholarship awards to present this year’s Shirley Ramos Memorial Scholarship recipient with a $2500 check. The annual FCG-sponsored Scholarship is given to female seniors pursuing a degree/technical training in construction. architecture, or engineering in honor of Shirley Ramos—a mentor and friend who lost her life to cancer in 2018 after a hard-fought battle with both Breast Cancer and Melanoma.
LensCrafters recently opened its new location in Mansfield, MA after completion by Fortunato Construction Group. This stunning store is just under 3000 SQ FT of modern retail and vision care spaces. Detailed millwork, wood floors, and light box displays create a sunlight sales area complemented by reception, exam rooms, lab and testing areas in the vision care center.
Last week HBJ hosted its annual Top 25 Women in Business Awards event. The atmosphere was charged with positivity and excitement as they honored the remarkable honorees, each a shining example of leadership, innovation, and perseverance in their respective fields.
This month, Fortunato Construction Group welcomes SFC Benjamin Hernandez as an Army-supported apprentice. SFC Hernandez is a Work Vessels for Veterans awardee who connected with Fortunato Construction through the Greens for Good Golf Tournament. As he retires from active duty this spring, he is focused on growing his Enfield-based construction firm Benny Blanco Decking Company.
Deka Lash opened at Evergreen Walk in South Windsor after recent completion by Fortunato Construction Group. This 1,000 SQFT space boasts clean, modern finishes and accent lighting. A daylight filled lobby hosts a retail wall and reception desk.
Our team is grateful to our partners and clients for all of what we've accomplished together this past year! As we reflect with gratitude, we'd like to wish everyone a joyous holiday season and a very Happy New Year! #builtbyfcg
The Goddard School of South Windsor brings a unique early childhood education facility to the community. Located in a quiet corner of Evergreen Walk, the School provides a play-based curriculum with fun learning experiences.
Fortunato Construction Group is pleased to announce the outcome of the inaugural Greens for Good Charity Golf Event was a donation of $31,000 to Work Vessels for Veterans.
Join Us! Fortunato Construction Group proudly presents Greens for Good – a charity golf event benefitting military Veterans! September 25, 2023, at the award-winning Lake of Isles Golf Course in North Stonington, CT. Scramble Format, Special Guests, Live Auction, Team & Individual Prizes, and more. 100% of net proceeds to benefit Work Vessels for Vets.
Budr Cannabis, owned by local home healthcare entrepreneur Derrick Gibbs Jr. and industry veteran Carl Tirella Jr., is hosting its grand opening Monday, July 31, at 1037 Boulevard, West Hartford. The adult-use cannabis retailer will be the first to open in West Hartford and one of five Tirella and Gibbs plan to open across the state by 2025.
Fortunato Construction Group has named Lindsey Fortunato president and CEO of the company, ushering in a new generation of leadership at the family-owned firm.
Steeped in rich, romantic history, magnificently and painstakingly restored, and now growing in sprawling beauty on the shore of the Connecticut River, Portland’s Saint Clement’s Castle introduces a stunning new treasure overlooking the water: River’s Edge at Saint Clement’s Marina.
Join Us! Fortunato Construction Group proudly presents Greens for Good – a charity golf event benefitting military Veterans! September 25, 2023, at the award-winning Lake of Isles Golf Course in North Stonington, CT. Scramble Format, Special Guests, Live Auction, Team & Individual Prizes, and more. 100% of net proceeds to benefit Work Vessels for Vets.
Fortunato Construction Group CEO, Lindsey Fortunato, and CFO, Jessica Idleman, were on hand at the Berlin High School Scholarship awards to present this year’s Shirley Ramos Memorial Scholarship recipient with a $2500 check. The annual FCG-sponsored Scholarship is given to female seniors pursuing a degree/technical training in construction. architecture, or engineering in honor of Shirley Ramos—a mentor and friend who lost her life to cancer in 2018 after a hard-fought battle with both Breast Cancer and Melanoma.
More than 15 years after starting a home healthcare business fresh out of college, Change Inc. President Derrick Gibbs Jr. is shifting his sights to a new industry — cannabis. Partnering with an industry veteran, a team of social equity entrepreneurs and a Chicago-based multistate cannabis business operator, Gibbs said he hopes to open five recreational marijuana dispensaries in the state in the next few years.
The Town of Berlin is rounding out 2022 with the revival of the Milestone Awards, honoring long-time businesses. The 2022 Milestone Awards were handed out between Sept. 1 to Dec. 29, recognizing smaller, locally owned businesses that have been operating for more than 25 years.
Matt joined FCG in April of 2019 and has very quickly developed excellent skills in bidding, budgeting and project management with our team. He recently completed a major renovation project at Capitol Light in Hartford, CT, and he just won a bid for a Brixmor Shell project, the future home of Aldi in Carle Place, NY. Matt is currently managing the relocation of Sakura Garden at Evergreen Walk in South Windsor, CT. He’s also slated to manage a complex addition and renovation at the McDonalds on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, MA this spring.
As some large multi-state cannabis companies already stake claims on buildings they may develop into cannabis grow operations, one local construction company is predicting a competitive environment for firms looking to build projects for Connecticut's marijuana industry.
I am the Director of Planning and Strategy at a family-owned commercial construction company in central Connecticut. Our business, founded by my father more than 30 years ago, has survived many economic cycles over the last three decades and has changed and evolved quite a bit in that time. Throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, we led in the restaurant construction space, with over a hundred new restaurants and dozens of renovation project in New England. When the market shifted and restaurant work slowed, we grew in retail.
We’re glad to see that the brand new Dryft Restaurant in Revere, MA is still serving takeout to hungry waterfront guests. We’re taking a moment to enjoy the beauty in this unprecedented time. Thanks for sharing this beautiful sunset time lapse, Dryft
FCG appeared in the Hartford Business Journal's Book of Lists 2020, celebrating 30 years in business!
In a typical Design-Bid-Build model the client is responsible for hiring a designer, bidding the project and selecting a contractor. With Design-Build the design and construction team are one of the same. The team is integrated and all parties are involved from the first conversations to the execution of construction.
It’s absolutely essential to have good knowledge of how a supermarket operates before you begin to build. These stores are usually designed with certain layouts in mind, providing space for different types of visual details, product placements, aisle designs, and accessibility that guides consumers through a certain experience.
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Fortunato Construction Group is pleased to announce that the outcome of the 2nd Annual Greens for Good Charity Golf Event was a donation of over $40,000 to Work Vessels for Vets. The event’s turnout showed strong support for the non-profit’s mission of equipping Veteran entrepreneurs nationwide.