1998
In May 1998 the Ad Hoc Committee recommended to “Create a Regional Contractor’s Alliance with other owners undertaking major construction projects, construction industry leaders, local contractors’ organizations, and other stakeholders to offer programs and opportunities to build the number and capacity of minority and women-owned contractors”.
The New Haven Regional Contractors’ Alliance takes on even more importance in the face of this massive construction process, much of it funded with taxpayers’ dollars. This study documents the need for services that will assist the existing small contractor community in participating in these opportunities. There is also an opportunity for developers, owners, general contractors to develop relationships with small, minority and women owned businesses.
“We conclude that there is definitely a strong need and demand for the types of services proposed by the founders of the New Haven Regional Contractors Alliance.”
New Haven Regional Contractors’ Alliance History
1999
The New Haven Regional Contractors’ Alliance incorporated as a 501 (c) 3 in June of 1999.
Spearheaded by the City of New Haven, Yale, American General Contractors Association, and private developers as the region began one of the most active periods of construction with projects in the New Haven County area projected over 1.5 billion dollars. Holt, Wexler and Farnam were commissioned to determine the demand for services of the New Haven Regional Contractors Alliance.
1997
On March 25, 1997, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced the formation of an Ad Hoc Committee with representatives from the construction industry, the trade unions, minority contractors, the NAACP, and the local community to determine ways by which local New Haven contractors would be assured of increasing their share of City and City related construction projects.
