UConn board of trustees to vote on $2.6M in renovation projects

The University of Connecticut board of trustees plans to vote Wednesday on two renovation/design projects totalling $2.6 million.

The projects include $800,000 for two phases of exterior repairs to the Branford House at the Avery Point campus, which hosts administrative offices. The house also has a banquet space for weddings and was once a residential mansion.

The project includes repairing the three-level, granite-masonry Gilded-age manor, which is now leaking in multiple areas, the school said. 

The UConn board of trustees will also vote on $1.8 million for the UConn Health Transitional Nursery renovation project in Farmington. The funds would come from the UConn Health capital budget.

The UConn Health labor and delivery unit, which is located at UConn’s John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, currently offers a program where mother and baby stay together during recovery and is served by a small satellite nursery that can accommodate two bassinets. The project would renovate space to create a seven-bassinet nursery along with an isolation area that can also serve as a transitional nursery for babies that require additional monitoring and care. 

The UConn Health board of directors also needs to sign off on that funding.