Under Construction; Work progressing on medical apartment complex

Work ‘on target’ for June completion of apartment complex for medical students

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August 5, 2016
Project Superintendent Paul Rigsby with Albany’s Pellicano Construction works on the North Jackson Street site Friday of the apartment complex that will house medical students on rotation at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)
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By Carlton Fletcher

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Pellacono Construction of Albany is “on track” to complete the North Jackson Street apartment complex that will be used by medical students working rotations at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Medical College of Georgia students are expected to start moving into the complex by this June, according to project Superintendent Paul Rigsby.

A worker with Statesboro-based HiTech Framing works Friday on the apartment complex under construction on North Jackson Street in Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

A new apartment complex for medical students is under construction on North Jackson Street. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Project Superintendent Paul Rigsby of Pellicano Construction works on the North Jackson Street job site Friday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Framers work on the new medical student apartment complex in Albany Friday in the glare of the mid-morning sun. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Work starts on the second story of the medical student apartment complex on North Jackson Street in Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)
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Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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