Lajoie\u2019s Auto Wrecking Co. plans to erect the 36,000-square-foot building on its 3.58-acre property at 40 Meadow St.<\/a>, according to plans filed with the city.<\/p>\nThe Planning and Zoning Commission approved the plan unanimously on Wednesday, according to Planning and Zoning Director Steve Kleppin.<\/p>\n
Jim Murphy, Lajoie\u2019s treasurer, said it was \u201ctoo soon to tell\u201d as to when construction will begin on the new facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a work in progress,\u201d he told the Hartford Business Journal.<\/p>\n
The new building\u2019s first floor will house an area for receiving, processing and shipping metal materials, a garage and welding area for business maintenance, offices and restrooms. It will also include a \u201cmuseum\u201d space to display the LaJoie family\u2019s racing collection and memorabilia.<\/p>\n
Family member Randy LaJoie is a former Nascar driver, and is the father of Nascar drivers Corey and Casey LaJoie.<\/p>\n
The second floor will contain more office space, a conference room and restrooms, the application said.<\/p>\n
Plans also call for demolishing a metal building along the southern boundary of the property. The property currently has a 5,800-square-foot commercial\/industrial building and other structures, including storage bays for recycled parts and an automobile crusher.<\/p>\n
LaJoie\u2019s, doing business as D&R Inc. of Norwalk and DLJ Associates, recycles vehicles and other metal products for reuse by the building trades and other industries.<\/p>\n
Francis LaJoie founded the company more than 100 years ago as a business that recycled rags and paper. Today, it sells aluminum scrap to Pennex, Alcoa and Novelis; copper to Revere Copper, Acupowder International and Cambridge-Lee Industries; and steel scrap to Commercial Metals, McWane Ductile and Sims Metal Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Connecticut salvage yard with a connection to Nascar racing has received approval to build a two-story recycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[16349,16350,425,99],"class_list":["post-65354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-hbj-today-featured","tag-home-page-featured","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}