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    Tuesday, May 07, 2024

    Norwich commercial window business growing in Greeneville

    Lance Jacobik of Accurate Door and Window installs a rubber gasket into a window frame Thursday on the company's new building on North Main Street in Norwich. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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    Norwich – Accurate Door & Window LLC, a family owned commercial window glazing company in Greeneville, won’t have to spend much of its business expansion budget on moving costs.

    Owners Kim and Doug Jacobik had been looking for larger quarters for the past year, and found it just three blocks away. Accurate Door & Window purchased the two-story, 6,800-square-foot building that had housed The Gym and two adjacent parcels at 394-400 No. Main St.

    Since the purchase on May 29 for $178,000 from former owner Matthew Isenburg, crews have been ripping out gym locker rooms, bathrooms and reshaping interior spaces to house the company’s main window and door fabrication operation, with an office and meeting room and, of course, new “high performing storefront glass,” Doug Jacobik said.

    “We’re moving in now,” Doug Jacobik said, “and we should be functioning in here by the end of next week.”

    “We’d better be,” Kim Jacobik added.

    That’s because Accurate Door & Window has four major projects in the works with three schools in Connecticut and the Danbury courthouse.

    The company also recently was selected as the windows contractor for the new school in Sandy Hook in Newtown. That high-profile school will replace the school where Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 young elementary school students and six teachers Dec. 14, 2012.

    Kim Jacobik said it’s a privilege to be part of the project that the local community sees as part of the recovery. She admitted getting “an eerie feeling” driving into the town and recalling the massacre of so many young children.

    Newtown officials have asked their contractors to attend community meetings and events and to discuss the new school project openly with parents and town residents.

    “They’re focused on being positive and moving forward,” she said.

    The new school will feature a proprietary protective glass called “School Guard,” which Accurate Door & Window is authorized to install, Doug Jacobik said.

    Accurate Door & Window also retrofits existing school windows.

    With Kim Jacobik as the lead owner of Accurate Door & Window LLC, the business is a certified Women’s Business Enterprise program participant, a designation that qualifies it for incentive points when bidding on certain state projects.

    Kim Jacobik, originally from Rhode Island, comes from a business family and has a background in accounting and business management. Her husband grew up in Norwich and has worked in the commercial window business locally, including at New England Glass & Mirror that had been in Greeneville for years before it too expanded to the Norwich business park.

    Kim Jacobik urged Doug to start their own business. Now, their daughter, Kassandra Jacobik, is the office manager, and son Lance Jacobik is an apprentice glazer.

    Accurate is a union shop, with an average of 15 workers from the District 11 glazers’ union and District 15 ironworkers.

    After starting the company out of their Preston home in 2000, the Jacobiks bought a 3,000-square-foot building at 374 N. Main St., which housed the office in an upstairs apartment and manufacturing in the main floor. Now, that building will become a storage facility and overflow work space, Doug Jacobik said.

    Kim Jacobik described the company’s growth as “always steady” since they started as a lead abatement contractor for residential properties. They now do only larger commercial and government building projects.

    “We grew more in the last eight years,” Doug Jacobik said.

    c.bessette@theday.com

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