According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the $6 million Mill River Park renovation construction could start next month, with April slugged as the latest.
With the plan currently working on specific sites for fences, entrances and storage of work equipment, Adam Burnett, Army Corps project manager, said construction site plans are the final step to the project”™s start. “I expect them to continue working on it over the month of February,” said Burnett.
The contractor on the project is Green Seal Environmental of Sandwich, Mass.
The corps recently approved the project”™s safety plan.
According to Robin Stein, chief of Stamford”™s Land Use Bureau, the project, positioned to last 18-months, is expected to begin on the west side of the park with the flattening of the Mill River dam and its associated dredging.
Philadelphia-based Olin Partnership is the park architect.
Olin and the projects board of representatives recently agreed upon an amendment that expanded the contract, to cost an additional $229,500.
The majority of the project is financed by the federal government, with the city and taxes on new development in the Mill River Corridor, the district surrounding the park, providing the remainder.
Opposition to the project has been associated with frustrations with the escalating costs and protests over the removal of nearly 100 cherry trees planted by a Japanese immigrant in the 1950s.
