Waterbury Ambulance, Copley Hospital react to growing costs for new facility projects
Waterbury Roundabout
Mounting development costs to build a new ambulance station and medical offices along Route 100 in Waterbury Center have Waterbury Ambulance Service leaders eyeing a new site downtown and Copley Hospital officials asking the state to revise its project approval.
In the case of the ambulance service, construction plans are on hold while the building committee looks into a Demeritt Place site for its “station creation” project.
“It’s a disappointment. We want to be there,” said Maggie Burke, executive director at Waterbury Ambulance Service, of the Rt. 100 location.
Burke attended the July 31 Waterbury Select Board meeting where she shared a project update. “The building project had plans to break ground in June at our site on Rt. 100,” she said. “Bids came back in May at a million [dollars] over what had been projected.”