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This boathouse on a property in Bolton is going through a rehabilitation by Hilltop Construction, including strengthening the existing structure by adding steel.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By R.J. Deluke<\/p>\n

For Hilltop Construction in Hudson Falls, business is looking brisk in 2014, its president Thomas Albrecht said.<\/p>\n

“I anticipate it’s going to be a very, very healthy year” for the construction industry, he said. “I’m very optimistic.”<\/p>\n

Albrecht said his company is involved in many projects and has others in the planning stages as the year goes on.<\/p>\n

Among them is the rehabilitation of a 200-year-old boathouse on Lake George in the town of Bolton. The boathouse, on private land, is known as the Bixby Boathouse.
\n“It’s a real interesting project,” he said. “Highly engineered.”<\/p>\n

\nHe said it involves rehabilitating the one-story structure that leads into the lake, but also strengthening the existing structure by adding steel to shore up the piers and cribbing.<\/p>\n

Also in Bolton Landing, Hilltop Construction is building a two-story, five-bedroom home on the lake. Albrecht said the way the home is built into the land, it is like a three-story home on the side that faces the lake. The home is already sold and should be completed by the end of June. It will have radiant heat and all the modern technological amenities. The design, he said, is out of the ordinary for lakeside homes in the area.<\/p>\n

At Dunham’s Bay Lodge on the east side of Lake George, Hilltop will be building a two-story structure for the company that will house offices and some storage space, Albrecht said. The 5,000-square-foot structure will have state-of-the-art technology and modern energy efficiencies.<\/p>\n

Albrecht will also be building a store for Stewarts Shops later in the year in Clinton Corners, N.Y., south of Albany.<\/p>\n

There are many other projects going on, he said, from putting additions on homes in Glens Falls to larger high-end projects. Albrecht said that among pending possibilities are three “good-sized projects over $1 million each.”<\/p>\n

“We’re a diversified company,” he said. “We’re able to do all kinds of projects. We don’t lock ourselves into one particular thing.”<\/p>\n

Mike Munter, vice president of Munter Enterprises in Middle Grove, said the construction business looks strong this time of year, with a lot of activity in Saratoga County. He said companies are still pricing out projects and bids are being generated. While the economy is still hard to predict, things have been improving.<\/p>\n

Munter said his company is finishing up the new Davidson Brothers Brewing Co., craft brewery at 1043 Route 9 in Queensbury, formerly a multi-screen movie theater and home to The Sports zone and Replay Sports retail stores.<\/p>\n

Being constructed is a 26,000-square-foot brewery that will house a 50-barrel brew house with packaging and kegging lines. Munter said it will probably be ready to open in April or May.<\/p>\n

Munter said his company is weeks away from completing the new town of Kingsbury highway garage, an 18,000-square-foot structure that will house vehicles, as well as administrative offices for the town.<\/p>\n

Another project to begin this spring is a new Concord Pools showroom and store off of Northway Exit 18 in Queensbury. The company has a showroom in Saratoga Springs. Munter said the new one-story building will be 9,000 square feet, with a open floor plan and lots of glass. The exterior will have a rustic barn type of look.<\/p>\n

In Saratoga Springs, a project soon to start for Munter is the new Four Seasons facility in Saratoga Springs. Four Seasons has a shop at 33 Phila St. in downtown Saratoga Springs. The new site is at 120 Henry St., an empty warehouse building previously occupied by Warren Electric. That location will focus specifically on retail products such as natural food groceries, organic produce, supplements, and aromatherapy, enabling the original location to offer a larger space for dining, according to owner Richard Frank.<\/p>\n

Munter said the 9,000-square-foot space will be renovated inside and get an exterior facelift as well.<\/p>\n

Also on the company’s docket is a 10,000-square-foot expansion at the Unlimited Potential facility at 36 Cady Hill Boulevard in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy Hilltop Construction\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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