Members of the State Contracting Standards Board announced Friday that they plan to investigate how one construction company was able to recommend itself for more than $87 million in subcontracts for the renovation of the State Pier in New London.
For several decades of the 19th-century, New London, Connecticut was one of the busiest whaling ports in the world. In 1876, the Central Vermont Railroad Pier in New London became the first and only 19th-century pier in the state of Connecticut. It brought a boom of trade to the successful seaport city as an interchange point for freight ships and the …