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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.
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.
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.
Coming soon - DRYFT Revere.
Fortunato Construction Group has been working on this beautiful new restaurant and tap room, design by @Arrowstreet.
Dryft will offer an Italian twist with a seafood influence. The restaurant will seat 140 with the expectation of an addition of an outdoor bar.
Thank you to The Aldi Family and @DryftRevere , for the opportunity to help bring your vision to life.
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.
The decisions you make during the building design phase will have a major impact on your operating costs each year. Focusing on options that offer energy efficiency and long life spans will help you minimize your total cost of ownership. Butler building assemblies are tested and proven to be more energy-efficient than industry standards, and Butler buildings are engineered and built to last.
Are you a construction project manager looking to learn and grow with a reputable, stable, family-owned commercial construction management firm? Are you a dedicated, hardworking, resourceful individual with a “whatever it takes” attitude and excellent follow-through skills? Would you like to be a valued member of a loyal, passionate, and fun team of highly experienced managers?
Wishing you and yours the very best this holiday season. From all of us at Fortunato Construction Group!
We all love our FCG gear so much that it's become a bit of a casual Friday "uniform" for us.
Fortunato Construction Group, led by the project team of Mike Donnelly and Pete Drane, just completed another brand new Aldi location. This new ground-up store is located on Queen Street in Southington, and is expected to be a very successful new location for Aldi.
Legrand North America, the Wiremold Company, has fresh new digs in West Hartford, Connecticut. This recently renovated industrial office space includes open work stations, various conference and collaboration spaces, and creative design space. The office serves as a showroom, featuring many of Legrand's own light and data products. We're proud to partner with this global organization who has worked for more than 25 years to transform spaces where people live and work.
“You know we were incredibly satisfied with your team’s work in 2009 when we gutted the main part of our building and performed a total transformation of it. This included installing an elevator, new HVAC, new electrical and lighting, creating the commercial kitchen, new bathrooms, modifying the interior layout, and new exterior walls. Working with Bob Piazza to price everything for us and advise us on the decisions we needed to make was a great experience and helped us make sure we could stay in budget. The construction manager process really worked well for us. I believe we had over 150 change orders, and we got more done on that project than I ever thought possible. Bob and site foreman, Russ Rushon, always handled everything with a smile.
When it came time for our smaller add on projects in 2016, I was so happy you agreed to take on the project for us because I did not want to work with anyone else. Again, you sent us great people to work with. Bob Piazza helped us with initial pricing and decisions on scope of work on which we needed help. I got many compliments on how accommodating site foreman, Tom Marra, was to us during construction, and Kyle Aiviano was great to work with on coordinating the final work for us. And by the way, his suggestion on the Tyco lock system was genius. Again we are very happy with how all the work came out.”
