Members of Associated General Contractors of Connecticut have pulled together with the Fairfield County Building Trades Council and the Fairfield County Building Trades Association to help build Ann's Place, The Home of I Can, a nonprofit agency in Danbury that offers support to about 700 cancer patients monthly. The approximately $5.5 million, 17,000-sq-ft center was built primarily with in-kind contributions, although the agency has raised $2 million to purchase discounted materials which were not donated.
“It’s an unusual coalition of contractors and unions working together,” says Wilda Hayes, executive director of Ann’s Place. “It’s been a long and rewarding process.”