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www.HartfordBusiness.com May 8, 2017 • Hartford Business Journal 7 WHAT'S AHEAD: ■ 5/15 Focus: Transportation ■ The List: Largest CT Department of Transportation projects ■ Nonprofit Profile: Community Foundation of Greater New Britain CALENDAR THURSDAY, MAY 11 Spring Investment Conference The CFA Society of Hartford is hosting its annual spring investment conference May 11, at the Hartford Club, 46 Prospect St., Hartford. The event, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. will cover various topics including demographics, government spending, energy and infrastructure, international trade and interest rate dynamics. Speakers include Robert Cox, global editor- in-chief, Thomson Reuters Breakingviews. com; Zef Lokhandwalla, energy markets specialist, Bloomberg; Anwiti Bahaguna, economist and chief market strategist, Columbia Threadneedle; Michael S. Falk, CFA, Focus Consulting Group in Chicago. Cost to attend is $30 for members, $55 for nonmembers. For more information contact: Rebecca Taylor, 860.604.1411, administrator@ hartfordcfa.org. F O R A C O M P L E T E L I S T O F G R E A T E R H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S E V E N T S , G O T O W W W . H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S . C O M A N D C L I C K O N ' C A L E N D A R . ' A L L C A L E N D A R I T E M S M U S T B E S U B M I T T E D E L E C T R O N I C A L L Y V I A O U R W E B S I T E , H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S . C O M . REAL ESTATE CT's March home sales, prices up Connecticut home sales and prices grew modestly in March, realty records show. Sales of one-family dwellings rose 1.9 percent last month to 2,207 vs. 2,165 sold a year earlier, according to Boston business publisher The Warren Group's monthly tally of publicly available data. The median price of those homes grew 2.2 percent, to $230,000 vs. $225,000 a year ago. Year to date, there were 6,064 single- family home sales in 2017, compared to 5,696 over the first three months of 2016 — a 6.5 percent increase. Over the same period, the median price was $225,500 in 2017, down slightly from $227,000. "Home sales, and the prices of those sales, showed some very modest gains in the first quarter of 2017," said Timothy Warren, CEO of The Warren Group. "These data are for sales that closed in the first quarter. The shopping and negotiating of the deals took place in the winter months, but now we are entering the critical spring selling season. Realtors would love to see more activity in the next two quarters." Condominium sales statewide rose 17.8 percent in March to 670 units vs. 569 a year ago. Median sale price rose 3.8 percent to $150,500 vs. $145,000. E. Hartford IT firm moves to Glastonbury Technology consulting firm Kelser Corp. has relocated its cen- tral office from East Hartford to Glastonbury. Now located at 43 Western Blvd., Kelser said it designed a more open space that facilitates communication and collaboration. Founded in East Hartford in 1981, Kelser will continue to of- fer managed IT services such as cybersecurity, disaster recovery, networking, and wireless, as well as customized IT for companies in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Robert Cox In Memoriam Robert F. Edmunds, Jr. 1944 - 2017 First Connecticut Bancorp, Inc. and Farmington Bank Mourn the Passing of a Member of Our Corporate Family and Beloved Member of the Community Robert "Bob" F. Edmunds, Jr., served on our Board of Directors from 1989 to 2015. He retired after 26 years of dedicated service and we thank him for his many contributions. PDS has been meeting the needs of the construction industry since 1965. Our dedicated team of design and construction professionals welcomes the challenge of serving its past and future customers on their most demanding projects. UMass Amherst Data Center | Amherst, MA The facility included a 24-inch raised floor. This project entailed an initial build out capacity of 500 kW of computing power (approx. 56 server racks), while making accommodations for expansion to 1250 kW (approx. 126 server racks). The Uninterruptable Power Source (UPS) consisted of battery banks located adjacent to the server room and backed up by the existing building emergency generators. The data center cooling was achieved through a chilled water system that was provided by a new roof-mounted modular air chiller and supplemented from the existing central utility plant (CUP) chillers. A chilled water loop installed under the raised floor supplies the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units. Total Project Size: 6,500 SF 107 Old Windsor Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002 (860) 242-8586 | Fax (860) 242-8587 www.pdsec.com DESIGN BUILDERS • GENERAL CONTRACTORS • CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS SPOTLIGHT ON: Education PDS ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INC. THINK • PLAN • BUILD GOVERNMENT, POLITICS & LAW Family law firm opens Hartford office Cordell & Cordell, a domestic law firm focusing on representing men in family law cases, has opened an office in Hartford. Phyllis MacCutcheon, who previously represented clients in the firm's Albuquerque, N.M. office, will lead the Hartford office, which opened May 1 at 100 Pearl St. The Hartford office is the company's first in Connecticut. Joseph Cordell and his wife, Yvonne, founded the firm in 1990 in St. Louis. Cordell & Cordell now has more than 235 attorneys working in more than 90 offices across the United States and United Kingdom. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D