Quality Design & Remodel, recently opened its state-of-the-art design center in Clifton Park. The 6,000-square-foot facility represents a significant evolution from what people expect from a typical home remodeler. This new design center is their next step in changing how homeowners feel about the remodeling experience by streamlining many of the more cumbersome aspects of home renovations and providing a hands-on design experience that homeowners will love, all under one roof.

 Quality Design & Remodel’s Clifton Park Design Center enables direct collaboration between clients and expert designers. It eliminates the previously time-consuming, multi-location process of selecting cabinets, flooring, countertops, and more with its interactive design areas, multiple kitchens (including a fully operable gourmet kitchen), functional bathroom displays, and hundreds of premium product options showcasing the firm’s expansive selection. The Quality Design & Remodel Team built and installed everything in the design center so homeowners can see firsthand the craftsmanship they’ll get for their projects.

By Rod Bacon

The skilled craftsmen at Munter Enterprises have plenty to keep them busy for quite some time. The Middle Grove-based construction company is in the midst of several projects, is finishing up others, and has still others in the planning stages.

According to Vice President Mike Munter, one of the more interesting projects for which they hope to break ground soon is a new branch for the Hudson River Community Credit Union. The 2,500-square-foot building in Greenwich will include a drive-thru and state-of-the-art Interactive Teller Machines (ITMs). Munter worked with Paone Architecture of Saratoga Springs for the building’s design and Verity Engineering, D.P.C. of Troy for site design. All approvals are in place and a June ground breaking is planned.

“This project is very interesting because of the demographic in the area,” said Munter. “For the Amish community there will be a hitching post and water hydrant in the parking lot for the horses.”

Another local project is for a firm relocating from Albany to a 15,000-square-foot building on Pierce Road off Northway Exit 10 in Clifton Park. Munter Enterprises is renovating the building for Kinsley Power, a company that supplies a variety of backup generator systems. They carry industrial and residential generators as well as cogeneration and battery storage systems. That project is underway and will be completed in June.

By Susan Elise Campbell

F.H. Alexander, Inc., the Schaghticoke based commercial construction company, has a full docket for the summer.

Owner Frank Alessandrini said that over the course of business since 1991, his company has become known for building restaurants, convenience stores, and retail spaces, and for renovating hospitals, schools, libraries, and other business and medical spaces.

“But this year is a little bit unusual for us,” Alessandrini said. “We are doing more and smaller projects than in past few years.”

“This trend is not an overall indication of the general economy or the business,” he said. “It’s just what we have landed.”

Starting mid-May, there are two projects for COARC, the Columbia County chapter of The ARC NewYork. One is an addition and a renovation and the other is a smaller renovation, he said.

Also starting soon are some interior renovations for Greenwich Library.

By Susan Elise Campbell

That the final 10 townhouses in the Thompson Farms development are expected to sell soon is one indicator of a healthy residential real estate market in Malta, as well as all of Saratoga County, according to Cindy Quade, owner of Signature ONE Realty Group.  

The twin townhomes were built by Michaels Group Homes, with whom Quade has collaborated for more than 35 years, she said. Michaels Group is a third generation, quality homebuilder.

The last street developed in the complex is a cul-du-sac with 12 townhomes.  Fifty percent of those homes sold within two weeks of coming to market, she said.

“Some clients waited for the cul-du-sac to open, but all the lots are great,” Quade said, 

The land was a working farm on East High Street in Malta, where the Thompson Farms silo still stands.

“Townhomes are maintenance free and appeal to a wide market, not just empty nesters,” said Quade. 

With a starting price around $450,000, Quade said first-timers and other buyers find they have the flexibility to get into a new, affordable home and to upscale some of the plans and features if they so choose.

By Paul Post

A new service station in Rexford, a Stewart’s Shop in Plattsburgh and dining hall at the Luzerne Music Center.

These are among the many commercial projects on Hilltop Construction Company’s work schedule as it tries to navigate uncertain economic times of rising prices and potential supply chain issues related to the current tariff situation.

“We’re very diversified in what we do and what we can do to help deal with that situation,” co-owner and Vice President Dan Washburn said. “If one sector pulls back the other might not. We get a good mix to help deal with that.”

Commercial work, which accounts for half the company’s revenue stream, is primarily focused on an area from Albany to Lake George, although Hilltop is one of the main firms Stewart’s calls on for remodelling and new store construction projects throughout the region.

It’s nearing completion of a new Stewart’s Shop at the corner of Glen Street and Sherman Avenue in Glens Falls, and is also renovating and expanding a store at the north end of Saratoga Lake, just over the Fish Creek bridge, on Route 9P.