Jack Miller Contractors Hires New Project Manager, Promotes General Manager

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jack Miller Contractors has hired Thomas P. Giblin as a new project manager and promoted Maureen Namkoong to the position of general manager to continue building a highly skilled management team and provide additional services to an expanding client base.

A total of eight employees handle management of the business with an additional 12 employees working in the field.

Giblin is a certified construction manager with a career spanning almost four decades working with several leading construction management teams in New England. With a broad and diverse portfolio of successfully completed projects, he has extensive residential, commercial, educational, retail, industrial, medical facility and multi-family experience. Giblin offers multiple skills in investment property, tenant fit–ups, hotel construction and destination homes, plus site evaluation, feasibility studies, building and MEP analysis. He is a University Of Hartford certified construction manager with training in OSHA 30 construction safety and OSHA 40 HAZWOPER and is a certified green tradesman and building analyst.

"I am very excited to be a part of this team and am looking forward to making significant contributions to the success of the company," Giblin said.


Namkoong, who has been with Jack Miller Contractors since 2016, has been promoted to the position of general manager. Her background includes 12 years working in nutrition for Everyday Health, formerly Waterfront Media. As director of nutrition, Namkoong managed 10 employees and 30 contract employees working on cross-functional teams to build health and wellness websites, collaborate with partners to bring brands online, support editorial staff and write content. Her project management skills and ability to work through challenges on tight deadlines with high expectations will serve the company well. She has a bachelor's degree from East Stroudsburg University and a masters of science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

"Jack remains focused on solutions and I admire these attributes," Namkoong said. "He is constantly learning and applying new techniques to his work and it is exciting to be a part of his team and help grow his company."

Currently, Namkoong is representing Jack Miller Contractors as a participant in Building Energy Bottom Lines, a peer network program of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. Bottom Lines is a business development program that uses a peer coaching model consisting of six regional peer groups of NESEA members dedicated to sustainability in the built environment with a focus on a triple bottom line: people, planet and profits.

Jack Miller Contractors has recently moved its office headquarters to 77 Water Street, the building formerly owned and occupied by Alton & Westall Real Estate. This relocation immediately follows the company’s new mobile-friendly website redesign as well as Jack Miller Contractors’ recent induction into award-winning Remodeling magazine's Big50.

 

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Williamstown Housing Trust Commits $80K to Support Cable Mills Phase 3

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust last week agreed in principle to commit $80,000 more in town funds to support the third phase of the Cable Mills housing development on Water Street.
 
Developer David Traggorth asked the trustees to make the contribution from its coffers to help unlock an additional $5.4 million in state funds for the planned 54-unit apartment building at the south end of the Cable Mills site.
 
In 2022, the annual town meeting approved a $400,000 outlay of Community Preservation Act funds to support the third and final phase of the Cable Mills development, which started with the restoration and conversion of the former mill building and continued with the construction of condominiums along the Green River.
 
The town's CPA funds are part of the funding mix because 28 of Phase 3's 54 units (52 percent) will be designated as affordable housing for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income.
 
Traggorth said he hopes by this August to have shovels in the ground on Phase 3, which has been delayed due to spiraling construction costs that forced the developer to redo the financial plan for the apartment building.
 
He showed the trustees a spreadsheet that demonstrated how the overall cost of the project has gone up by about $6 million from the 2022 budget.
 
"Most of that is driven by construction costs," he said. "Some of it is caused by the increase in interest rates. If it costs us more to borrow, we can't borrow as much."
 
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