News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: January 15, 2016
Bread Loaf celebrates ribbon cutting for The Automaster’s BMW site
The Automaster’s BMW showroom, at 3328 Shelburne Road - Shelburne, VTShelburne, VT Bread Loaf Corp. celebrated the opening of The Automaster’s BMW showroom, at 3328 Shelburne Rd., renovation with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Deconstruction began in November 2014. The total renovation included stripping the existing building down to the structural steel and rebuilding a completely updated showroom, with an expansion of 980 s/f of new showroom space to the existing footprint. Construction of the new facility was completed in June.
Bread Loaf served as the architect and general contractor.
Shown (from left) are: Liz Costandi, BMW client advisor, The Automaster; Jacques Lefrancios, BMW GSM, The Automaster; Joe Colangelo, Shelburne town manager; Ann Hogan, Shelburne town planning commissioner; Randy Adams, BMW client advisor; Gerry Barker, BMW client advisor, The Automaster; Casey Webster, BMW client advisor, The Automaster; Jenna Gagliasso, BMW client advisor, The Automaster; Mike McLaughlin, vice president Bread Loaf Corp.; Dutton Smith, project manager, Bread Loaf Corp.; Fred Belucci, vice president of estimating, Bread Loaf Corp.
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