A Connecticut construction company formally established its footprint in Massachusetts Friday with a grand opening of its Worcester office.
Manfort Brothers decided to make the 10,000-square-foot warehouse and office space along the Southwest Cutoff its Bay State base of operations due to easy highway access and proximity to where employees live, said company president Jim Manafort.
“A lot of the work that’s going on in Massachusetts we specialize in,” Manafort said.
Manafort plans to have 10-12 employees working out of its Worcester office, Manafort said, with another 150 working remotely around the commonwealth. The Worcester office had been up-and-running for at least four months prior to Friday’s formal opening, Manafort said.
The company employs 750 people across Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and focuses on concrete construction, sitework, demolitions and remediation, Manafort said.
The company has landed several projects during its first few months in Massachusetts, including construction of a Division of Fisheries building in Westborough and the Champions Center at UMass Amherst as well as renovations to the War Memorial Clock Tower in Quincy.
Attendees at the ribbon cutting included U.S. Rep Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, who said Manafort’s move to the region bodes well.
“A construction business locating in Worcester is a sign that the best is yet to come,” McGovern said. “Construction companies are the canaries, the precursors to the (construction) crane.”
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