CONWAY — Following a full site-plan review July 14, the Conway Planning Board gave unanimous 7-0 conditional approval to the Bluebird Project LLC to create eight rental apartments in the historic 19th-century former Bunker Building at 109 Pine St. in North Conway Village.

Planning board member Eliza Grant recused herself from the discussion, as she is a partner with Kit Hickey in the Bluebird Project LLC, a local for-profit housing group.

Project consultant Kate Richardson of Bergeron Technical Services of Conway reviewed how the project last month received a special exception and variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment for greater density.

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CONWAY — According to George Wiese, “These are good times for Conway Village.”

The executive director of Mountain Top Music made that remark Feb. 15 while giving a tour of the ongoing $1.2 million renovation of the 1931-built Bolduc Block in the center of the village, which was purchased in 2015 for $220,000 by Mountain Top.

The centerpiece of the renovation is restoring the fire-damaged Majestic Theatre, though the final work of upgrading the theater’s sound and film equipment will be done outside of the scope of the current project.

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Majestic Theater Stage

The March-April edition of New Hampshire Home Magazine features an article on one of Bergeron Technical’s projects, Tamworth Distilling and Mercantile. Bergeron Technical Services provided Project Administration, Planning and Design Services for the project in its entirety. Beautiful photos in the article highlight the Distillery and repurposed Tamworth Garden building. The Distillery is a brand new, state of the art building, built to resemble a 19th century New England barn in homage to the distinct agricultural origins of the practice of distilling, while utilizing today’s technology to ensure an efficient and safe building. The barrel house was originally built in the 1890’s and was an exposition center used for boxing matches and basketball games; it was later used by the historic Barnstormers Theater for rehearsals and summer performances, it sat vacant for many years before being moved, renovated and reconfigured as the Distillery’s Barrel House. The Garden’s gallery seating lofts are still intact, giving this building a new purpose while maintaining a vital historical feature harkening back to the Town of Tamworth’s colorful and rich past.

Read the article here: Tamworth Distilling Article from Spring 2017 edition of NH Home

Architect: Distillery – SISR Architecture, Marlow, NH; Barrel House – Bergeron Technical Services, North Conway, NH

Structural Engineer: JSN Structural Engineers, Portsmouth, NH

Construction: Bauen Corp., Meredith, NH