🔒Deringer-Ney expanding on 21+ Bloomfield acres

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Metal-alloy and precision-components maker Deringer-Ney Inc. is erecting a 100,000-square-foot plant, building on more than 21 recently acquired acres in Bloomfield, brokers say.

The Vernon Hills., Ill., company already has a Bloomfield facility at 2 Douglas St., in Ney Industrial Park.

The new building is designed for office and light-industrial use, said Lyman Real Estate, which brokered Deringer-Ney's $850,000 purchase of the acreage at 2 Mucko Road, at the corner of Woodland Avenue.

Lyman Real Estate represented land sellers Elizabeth Fernandez and Marie Mercaldi.

Deringer-Ney has other facilities in Marshall, N.C., and Sonora, Mexico. The company develops precious metal alloys and precision components for the medical device, automotive, semiconductor, aerospace and appliance industries.

Goodwill’s Glastonbury redo

Nonprofit Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut has begun an expansion of its Glastonbury store, expanding its secondhand-apparel and home-accessories sales floor and installing a drive-up donation window at 6213 Main St.

Work began in early October, said Goodwill President Vickie Volpano, to double by next spring the existing building's 6,384-square-foot footprint to 12,500 square feet.

Torrington's Borghesi Building & Engineering Co. Inc. is the project designer and construction contractor.

Goodwill leases the space it has occupied since 2003 from landlord Primason & Katzen.

The store has 18 employees/volunteers.

Goodwill's store revenue provides jobs and supportive services to people with disabilities and other challenges. It has 16 Connecticut stores.

TPC work underway

A $3.1 million upgrade is underway on greens and infrastructure at the renowned TPC River Highlands golf course, the Cromwell home the last 24 years to the PGA Tour golf tournament, now called the Travelers Championship.

The work centers on upgrading the course's drainage and playability, officials said.

TPC River Highland's original architect, Bobby Weed, and golf-construction contractor McDonald and Sons Inc. are overseeing the work that began Oct. 1, said TPC River Highlands General Manager David Corrado.

According to Corrado, course enhancements include:

• Rebuilding, repositioning, and restyling of all bunkers, incorporating new drainage and sand for improved playability

• Lifting of the front edges or corners of select greens, providing a greater number of pin positions

• Leveling some tournament tee boxes, including a new tee complex at No. 15

• Improving routing and repair of select golf cart paths

• Stabilizing the lake bank edges to avoid further erosion and improve aesthetics

• Adding and improving drainage throughout the golf course

“By keeping the existing layout of the course intact while focusing our enhancements on certain key components, specifically our bunkers, greens and tee boxes,” Corrado said, “we are confident that this project will continue to separate TPC River Highlands as the premier golf course in the state.”

Damato’s Newington relo

Damato Chiropractic Center has leased 6,000 square feet in Newington's Best Market Plaza at 175 Lowrey Place.

Damato, listed as the official chiropractor to the Hartford Wolf Pack, is preparing to relocate the Newington location from 94 Market Square in the center of town, according to lease broker Reno Properties Group LLC.

Lowrey Place Realty LLC is landlord.

Best Market Plaza is a 70,000-square-foot anchored shopping center, whose other tenants include Best Market supermarket and a U.S. Post Office branch.

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