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May 13, 2019 8:35 pm
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and lawyer Anthony DiCrosta with Clock Shop Lofts developer Josh Blevins and lawyer Jay Lawlor.
A Mill River strip club owner has reached a deal with a Portland-based developer to pay up to $40,000 in back rent, end its eviction appeal, and vacate its derelict former clock factory digs by May 20 in order to allow for the building’s conversion into 130 affordable apartments and artist lofts.
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May 7, 2019 12:40 pm
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and attorney Anthony DiCrosta in court.
A housing court judge has given a Mill River strip club eight days to post $1.2 million in cash or collateral to avoid immediate eviction from its dilapidated clock factory home.
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Apr 25, 2019 10:56 am
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti, lawyer Anthony DiCrosta in court.
A state appeals court has sided with Scores strip club’s argument that the latter should not be on the hook for $2.45 million. Even if its refusal to budge from a dilapidated clock factory torpedoes an estimated $38 million new housing development.
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Apr 23, 2019 7:18 am
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Luckey (in orange earrings).
The mothers around the table at Briah Luckey’s art studio on East Street weren’t wasting any time. There were greetings and updates before they quickly got to the task at hand, grabbing large rectangles of paper and paintbrushes for that morning’s project: “mark making” with black ink, accented by brightly colored, water-soluble crayons. There was a palpable enthusiasm in the room, perhaps born of the knowledge that this time was their own.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 2, 2019 7:34 am
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A federal judge fined two property-owning brothers $9,500 each and sentenced each to one year of probation and 50 hours of community service for illegal and dangerous removal of asbestos from a Mill River warehouse.
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Mar 27, 2019 5:05 pm
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Scores’ Forchetti and DiCrosta.
A Mill River strip club’s owners have until Monday to put together $2.45 million in cash or collateral, or else the owners of a dilapidated former clock factory may proceed with an eviction to make way for 130 new affordable apartments and artist lofts, thanks to a judge’s ruling released Wednesday.
Club owner Peter Forchetti, lawyer Anthony DiCrosta in court Thursday.
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Scores on Saint John Street.
The developer of the Clock Shop Lofts told a judge his $38 million-plus renovation of an historic Mill River factory has a 50 – 50 chance of falling apart if a strip club doesn’t move out within a year.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 18, 2019 3:23 pm
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Contested beachfront: Cirino’s property at left; Palmieri’s, right.
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Palmieri in a past interview about the family food biz.
The city has moved to foreclose on a Mill River spaghetti sauce manufacturing plant due to unpaid taxes.
Meanwhile, the plant’s third-generation owner owes over $430,000 to a Morris Cove neighbor whom he took to court six times over 15 years over who owns the beach abutting their properties.
The Quinnipiac River: Soon to be a state wildlife refuge?
Local waterfowl can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now, that a bill that would designate both the Quinnipiac River and the Mill River as wildlife refuges has won a key sign-off from a state legislative committee.
Scene of discovery beneath clock factory floorboards.
The developers of the new Clock Shop Lofts apartments recently stumbled upon a half-dozen high-power firearms buried beneath the floorboards of the former Hamilton Street factory complex.
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Christopher Peak |
Jan 31, 2019 8:54 am
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Officer Daophet Sangxayarath looks for people out in the deep freeze.
As temperatures dropped into the single digits on Wednesday night, beat cops fanned out across the city searching for anyone who might be at risk of freezing to death.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 14, 2018 8:41 am
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Scores strip club on St. John Street.
Scores lawyer Anthony DiCrosta and Clock Shop lawyer Jay Lawlor in court on Thursday.
A Mill River strip club filed for bankruptcy the afternoon before its eviction hearing, buying itself time before having to leave in order to make way for a new complex of 130 low-income apartments and artist lofts.
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Dec 6, 2018 10:09 pm
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Welch and Malloy affix memorial wreath at Thursday’s dedication.
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 19-year-old Electrician’s Mate Floyd Welch was pulling together the microphone and other equipment for church services on his ship, the U.S.S. Maryland, anchored, with a sister ship, two by two, along one of the inlets at Pearl Harbor.
Within a half hour of noise, confusion, and alarms, he and his 1,000 shipmates were at battle stations. Where he stood through the smoke on the forecastle, he saw a battleship lying on her side.
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Nov 23, 2018 12:57 pm
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Spencer Luckey inside his bigger new plant.
Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California and the Middle East.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:55 am
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Stack-starters Sobocinski and McDonald.
Tech hub’s smokestack, which inspired new restaurant’s name.
Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.
New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130 low-income housing units and artist lofts.
Mayor Toni Harp with Hunan Boom CTO Haitang Yang at The Study.
Over a swanky breakfast and then on a tour of tech and manufacturing hot spots, city leaders sought to convert a newly forged Chinese business connection into the creation of up to 100 local jobs.
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Oct 22, 2018 3:45 pm
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NHR’s Juan Salas-Romer.
A local developer who has made a name building apartments for middle-income renters is shedding smaller properties to invest in larger-unit ventures Downtown and in Fair Haven Heights, as reflected in some of the latest recorded land sales in town.
In Georgia, Democrats are accusing the secretary of the state of blocking tens of thousands of black people from voting. In New Haven Sunday, black women working to turn out the vote heard a promise from Connecticut’s secretary of the state that she’ll make it easier, not harder, to vote here.
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Oct 17, 2018 3:02 pm
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Stretch of the Mill River just outside of the Eli Whitney Museum.
Derrylyn Gorski signs Mill River watershed map to pledge support at Tuesday’s event.
Add bioswales up and down James Street. Convert a portion of Exchange Street into a linear trail park. And always keep parking lot dumpsters closed to avoid stormwater runoff contamination.
Those are among dozens of environmentally-conscious recommendations included in the new Mill River Watershed Plan.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 10, 2018 7:56 am
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Rendering of future Clock Shop Lofts.
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Development staffers Clayton Williams and Carlos Eyzaguirre at Tuesday’s commission meeting.
The developers of a new 133-unit low-income and artist loft housing complex in Wooster Square will get $800,000 in city-managed federal funds to help pay for part of the site’s estimated $6.6 million environmental remediation.
