Washington Post: Artisan Comeback, An Old Manufacturing City Sputters Back To Life

Vessel maintenance now includes Bridgeport Boatworks and Hornblower Group.

From Irina Ivanova, Washington Post:

The city’s spaces have attracted plenty of transplants from New York and from other parts of Connecticut. Fordham Marble, a high-end countertop manufacturer, moved its production facility from the Bronx to Bridgeport in 2018 when it needed more space, nearly doubling its facility to 27,000 square feet.

North Sails, a manufacturer and servicer of high-end sails, moved its manufacturing and sales hub from nearby Milford in 2021, joining a burgeoning mixed-use development on 52 acres overlooking Long Island Sound.

The site, once home to the Bridgeport Steel Works, has been rechristened Steelpointe Harbor by developer RCI Group, whose resume includes high-end waterfront properties like Miami Beach Marina. Steelpointe Harbor is slated to have 1,500 new housing units and more than 2 million square feet of retail and commercial space. But the beating heart of the operation is the shipyard, where tradespeople clean, refinish and service yachts, catamarans, commercial fishing boats, and more.

“This is the first deep harbor north of Manhattan,” says Robert Christoph Jr., president of RCI Group.” We knew because of its location, it would become a destination for larger yachts. The crew can take their time, relax, go to the city, see a concert.”.

…Since Hornblower Marine, part of Hornblower Group maritime transport and maintenance company, opened in 2021, it has tripled in size, according to Tim O’Brien, the company’s senior vice president of ferries and transportation. The New York City ferry, which Hornblower co-founded and operates with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, travels here for special maintenance or in-depth inspections.

O’Brien says he has leaned on Goodwin University to flag candidates for entry-level welding jobs or internships — and to upskill his existing workforce. Hornblower now has certified faculty in aluminum and steel welding on-site and is taking steps to have a certified welding inspector by the end of the year. The company has also funded six scholarships for the maritime program at Porter and Chester Institute, a trade school with a Bridgeport campus.

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  1. I don’t know what coded disingenueness shit is going on over here, but honoring the troops/ veterans is one thing, but having a a person whose employment is pretty divisive when he was in a probationary recruit officer that went gun hole, jumped out of his squad car to chase down a stolen car and jumped through the window that ended with the death of a kids, seems off. I mean you could have at least stuck him in the back and not ha e him in the front row sitting on side of the Chief.

    Shit, I would have put them in the back out of compassion and mercy for him to hide that Bob/ mullet cut he got going on🤣

    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16Z2nVkT2D/

    Speaking of disingenuous does anybody find it off that Tehran erects a statue of a king/ Empire that they conquered, depicting a Roman Empiror kneeling before him? I mean considering the connection to them in the entity that conquered the Roman Empire, just saying.😇

    https://youtu.be/SC5IqVOF19U?si=OYaWxnLUJ-AR1CML

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  2. This is how disingenuous government is, not withstanding, you have SpongeBob, Billy Ray Cyrus in the front row. But here’s a governmental institutional apparatus that is generally hated in this country, (like how the Vets were viewed in the 70s) for their heavy-handed abusiveness, in many cases rightfully so. Yet no females in attendance. . I mean there’s not miliary women on the force? These ladies have tats, and I am not talking about Tweety Bird on ankle or heart on the but cheek. These bitches (I use the term with endearment, ladies 🙂 ) have them all over the place, sleeves, Freddy Krueger, spider webs on their neck, and not one from the military family?

    It was a disingenuous sausage factory, Good Job fellas. Don’t forget to spit that shit out. 🤣

    Speaking of books, scripts, spiting shit out and hatred/dominance of the female species. As it relates to war, vets, governments, and disingenuousness. It sad enough for this government to spend 3 trillion on a 20-year war, thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of maim and injured (that just on this side) to just hand it over to a very same heavy-handed hatred governmental body on its female species, (their mothers, and daughters) it told it solders to fight and liberate. pretty sad.

    I don’t know where the Key-master stands on this shit show, or when these extreme heavy- handed, oppression will venture out/forced out of the caveman mentality, as you cherry-pick the words. but if y’all run out of water (climate change in all) shits going to get really real.

    Perhaps, a peaceful Arab Spring 2.0 or an evolution revolution enlightenment to loosen up some of the bullshit, bondage/oppression, coverings. JS

    Good luck.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDey60Hm3O8

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