The Town of Wethersfield has submitted a pre-application for a major construction project at 301 Highland Street: a new two-story Pre-K through grade 4 elementary school for 405 students on a 22.2-acre A-1 zoned site. The project includes new drives, parking, athletic fields, landscaping, play areas, and is explicitly planned to serve as a “swing school” for approximately eight years, with schematic design materials dated April 2026 prepared by TSKP Studio and engineering partners. At this stage the Planning and Zoning Commission review is informational and advisory, with detailed site plans, floor plans, elevations, civil, structural, MEP, and landscape drawings already in schematic form, but no construction procurement described yet. This signals an upcoming multi-million-dollar K-4 school build with needs spanning general contracting, trade contractors, site/civil, landscape, MEP systems, security, IT/AV, furnishings, and move management. Vendors can position now around constructability review, cost estimating, value engineering, and future bid-phase services as the town moves from schematic design into formal approvals and procurement.

The project appears to be part of a State of Connecticut DAS school construction program (state proj...