Valley Chamber of Commerce presents Silver Hammer Award to City of Ansonia

Mayor David S. Cassetti, center, with Corporation Counsel John Marini and Economic Development Director Sheila O'Malley./ City of Ansonia photos

ANSONIA - Mayor David S. Cassetti, Economic Development Director Sheila O’Malley, and Corporation Counsel John Marini recently accepted the Silver Hammer Award from the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the City.

Each year the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce presents its Silver Hammer Award to acknowledge local construction or renovation projects that have made a positive impact on the community. 

The award was given in recognition of the City’s Downtown Police Station/Senior Center project at 65 Main St.  

Thank you to our Board of Aldermen and staff for making this project a reality. 

The Mayor and his team thanked Chamber  President Bill Purcell and Ken Weinstein of Newtown Savings Bank. 

Weinstein introduced the Mayor at the ceremonial event, held at the Brownson Country Club in Shelton. 

Cassetti's his team and the Board of Aldermen successfully crafted an agreement which resolved blight issues, put the former owners of the site on a path to develop market rate housing on the same block downtown and freed up this building to serve the residents of Ansonia. 

“I would like to thank my team and the residents of the City of Ansonia and congratulate the other recipients including Farrel-Pomini Corporation, which was given a Milestone award in recognition of 175 years of business in Ansonia, Digiorgi Roofing and Siding, Inc., ShopRite of Shelton, and the Cingari Family, and Greenwich Workshop of Seymour,” Cassetti said.

This is a press release from the City of Ansonia.