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The partially demolished historic Walter Camp house.
Someone intentionally set the Christmas Day fire that ravaged the historic Walter Camp house at 1303 Chapel St.
The question now is: Who did it?
by | Feb 19, 2020 6:21 pm | Comments (2)
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A photo of Gilberto Molina and his girlfriend, Rosaura Diaz. Below: Molina’s family mourns at their Kensingston Street apartment.
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Gilberto Molina loved to paint seascapes and tinker with cars. He’d spend hours lying in bed with Beats headphones wrapped around his ears, and would get up in an instant if his sister or brothers or mom needed his help.
He was quiet and kept to himself. And his family misses him desperately after he was struck and killed by a car on Columbus Avenue earlier this week, the latest fatality in a season of pedestrian carnage on New Haven streets.
by | Feb 5, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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School CFO Penn: New Haven behind by an “awful lot of money.”
Dwight neighbors examine school district’s proposed plan.
Mark Griffin had a front-row seat at opening night of a new neighborhood road show starring local education officials — and left vowing to write to his representatives from New Haven to Hartford to Washington, seeking more money for public schools.
by | Jan 23, 2020 8:59 am | Comments (29)
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City Plan’s Leslie Radcliffe: It will take “one failure to be a tragedy.”
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Driverless shuttles: Coming soon to a hospital near you?
A plan to test driverless shuttles on New Haven streets advanced Wednesday night — with dissenters raising fears about public safety and the loss of human drivers’ jobs.
by | Jan 17, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Mayor Justin Elicker (center) posing with Joann Wilcox, Oliva Martson, Mike Brown, and Jason Burns at Three Sheets Thursday.
Local creatives turned out to Three Sheets bar not for a hardcore punk show or an underground art fest, but to petition the newly elected mayor to keep city dollars and cultural opportunities open to those who already live, work, and perform here.
Continue reading ‘Beer In Hand, Mayor Urged To Support Local Art’
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:28 pm | Comments (17)
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city will soon go out to bid, again, for the long-planned and years-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack. Now the soonest cyclists can expect to ride the separated lane will be this summer.
by | Jan 8, 2020 3:23 pm | Comments (7)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building.
Dwight neighbors voted to form a committee to negotiate with Yale New Haven Hospital to make sure that the community isn’t left behind by the latter’s planned new $838 million neuroscience center and St. Raphael campus expansion — especially when it comes to parking.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Neighbors Ready To Negotiate With Hospital’
by | Jan 7, 2020 11:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Proposed garage at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center, St. Raphael’s campus expansion, and associated parking garages earned a suite of unanimous aldermanic approvals, paving the way for construction of the nearly $1 billion project to begin later this spring.
by | Jan 3, 2020 3:17 pm | Comments (40)
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Crew razing the old Webster Bank at 80 Elm to make way for new hotel.
New Haven’s economy is set to expand by thousands of apartments, hundreds of hotel rooms, and a nearly $1 billion new neuroscience center in the coming years — if projects in the pipeline proceed as planned in 2020.
by | Dec 17, 2019 12:49 pm | Comments (3)
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The Greater Dwight Development Corporation is about to become even greater.
It has purchased a stately historic building at the corner of Maple Street and Ella Grasso Boulevard through a bank foreclosure.
The plan: Rehab it, preserve its period character and green space, and use it to expand early childcare opportunities in the area.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Group To Rehab Historic Building, Add Child Care’
by | Dec 11, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (23)
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Neuroscience center critics at Tuesday night’s hearing.
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One of the proposed new parking garages, at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s pitch to transform the city’s healthcare economy with a new $838 million neuroscience center earned the project four key aldermanic committee sign-offs — as well as impassioned testimony from Dwight neighbors worried about gentrification, traffic congestion, air pollution, and historic property demolition.
by | Dec 6, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (10)
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The proposed new garage (left) at Chapel and Orchard as connected to the existing St. Raphael hospital (right).
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Olivia Martson with a 2008 map of surface (red) and garage (yellow) parking in New Haven.
Dwight neighbors revved up concerns about increased parking and traffic from Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center and renovated Saint Raphael Campus — while a hospital spokesperson pointed out that the many new patients, doctors, staff, and visitors for the nearly $1 billion project will have to park somewhere.
by | Dec 6, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (2)
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Site of planned new Cambria hotel at corner of Dwight and MLK.
A Maryland-based hotel chain that plans to build a 130-room upscale hotel on the “Route 34 West” superblock bought the parcel for $2.8 million, in the city’s latest property sales.
by | Dec 4, 2019 4:46 pm | Comments (7)
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189 Dwight. Below: Healy faces neighbors.
Scott Healy never wanted to be an absentee landlord. But nearly four years after a burst water pipe wreaked havoc on his historic Dwight Street home, the building’s still empty and uninhabitable, with hundreds of thousands of dollars of repairs still to go.
He’s determined to restore it, and keep it in the right hands.
by | Dec 2, 2019 9:14 am | Comments (8)
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Latest rendering of YNHH’s proposed new neuroscience center.
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Shepley Bulfinch architect Andre Kamili, YNHH Vice President Facilities Design Stephen Carbery, YNHH Senior Vice President Operations Michael Holmes, and Milford attorney John Knuff.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center and renovated St. Raphael campus should result in $1 billion of economic activity over the coming five years, path-breaking research and medical care for victims of strokes and Parkinson’s Disease and ALS for many years after that — and a roughly 1,000-space increase to the campus’s current parking demand.
The hospital revealed those details as it won a handful of recommendations for regulatory approvals it needs before beginning construction on the mammoth new project next summer.
by | Nov 28, 2019 9:05 am | Comments (2)
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1303 Chapel St.
A large-scale local landlord picked up the blighted former Walter Camp home for $1.2 million from a Long Island developer who failed to follow through on plans to convert the historic building into 13 apartments, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Nov 25, 2019 8:36 am | Comments (19)
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Developer Nick Falker (right) with local architect Dylan Hayn.
The developer of a new six-story, 44-unit market-rate apartment complex planned for a Howe Street parking lot has cleared his last regulatory hurdles for the project, and plans to start construction in March.
by | Oct 31, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (8)
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Sandra’s at its current location on Congress Avenue.
Zoning commissioners Wednesday night signed off on the planned expansion in the Hill of a popular soul food restaurant. They granted parking relief for a planned 44-unit apartment complex in Dwight. And they approved a new resident-run cafe in a planned affordable housing complex in West River.
All in 15 minutes.
by | Oct 22, 2019 3:20 pm | Comments (15)
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Breaking ground for the new parking garage: Lynn Fusco, BOA President Tyisha Walker-Myers, Mayor Toni Harp, Larry Stubbs, Peter Levin, Michael Piscitelli, Jim Marzi. Below: The design of the new garage.
Dozens turned out for the groundbreaking of the “Rt. 34 West” superblock’s latest development — a four-story, 763-space parking garage owned by the Hartford-based LAZ Parking.
by | Oct 18, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (30)
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Design rendering for 17-35 Kensington St.
A regional affordable housing developer plans to build a new three-story, 15-unit apartment building atop a current city park on Kensington Street, pending the city’s disposition of the land and the availability of state and federal subsidies.
Continue reading ‘Affordable Housing Planned For Kensington Park’
by | Oct 17, 2019 10:48 am | Comments (14)
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The designs of various Cambria Hotels around the country.
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HighSide Construction Management’s Doug Miller: No design rendering yet. Check out the Cambria site for examples.
The developers of a planned new six-story, 130-room hotel won a key city sign-off in their bid to build the next large project on the “Route 34 West” superblock.
by | Oct 7, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (0)
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“We are not standing by to wait for a magic bullet for a cure. We’re going after education and prevention and we are going to bend that curve.”
The curve is the one that shows, nationally, a 17 percent rise in those diagnosed with the painful and still incureable genetic disease, sickle cell anemia, which largely afflicts African-Americans.
Continue reading ‘“Michelle’s House” Opens To Combat Sickle Cell Disease’
by | Oct 2, 2019 2:19 pm | Comments (9)
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Petrini updates the management team.
There will not be one huge tower but rather two buildings, neither more than eight stories, so as not to overwhelm the residential neighborhood. One will be cantilevered over the current surgery center and the other beside it but set back from the street and buffered with landscaping.
by | Oct 2, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (1)
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Tenant Demara Williams: “My trust is gone.”
A former property manager at the 88-unit Seabury Cooperative Housing allegedly stole at least $15,000 in cash security deposits and rent payments from at least four different tenants.
Then the tenants started getting eviction notices.
by | Sep 19, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (7)
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Surface parking lot at 104 Howe, where the new building is proposed to rise.
At a time when new downtown apartment building proposals invariably spark controversy, one plan has met with an outpouring of neighborhood support, and only a touch of leeriness.
Continue reading ‘Howe Street Project Lauded, Shrunk To 44 Units’