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Team Member News! September 2023

Posted by: Ken Boroson - 9/22/23 1:16 PM

Topics: About Us, Staff Announcements

We at Kenneth Boroson Architects are delighted to introduce our newest Project Manager, Mark Hesselgrave, RA.

Mark Hesselgrave joins our Team as a Senior Architect after providing architectural consulting services as a private practitioner for 14 years. Prior to that, he held senior positions at architectural design firms in Connecticut, California, and Mexico, including Pelli Clarke & Partners (formerly Pelli Clarke Pelli), Flad Architects, and Fletcher Thompson. He provided consultant services to PCP, Apicella + Bunton, and Sophie Harvey Design, among others.

Mark’s previous experience focused on complex, full-service projects in the educational, health care, lab/research, and residential sectors, on sites throughout the US and abroad. Examples include the renovation and new construction of a lab building at City University of New York to become a new research facility of nearly one million square feet; comprehensive renovation and addition to Norwalk’s Brien McMahon High School; new construction of New Haven’s Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School; three buildings for the Cleveland Clinic, and a biological research lab for UCLA. In addition, he has designed private residences and condominium complexes in New York City, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Mexico City.

A Registered Architect since 1990, Mark is licensed in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2009. He earned his Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture and B.Arch. degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Currently, he is the Project Architect on the MLK / Curtis Cofield II development in New Haven (formerly known as Tyler Street Family Housing), which encompasses 4.3 vacant acres on Ella Grasso Boulevard. It will include affordable rental dwellings in eleven buildings as well as a community meeting center. Mark is also managing the Mount Pleasant / Bond Street development in New Britain.  This neighborhood revitalization will provide new affordable and market rate rental and senior units for the Housing Authority of New Britain.