by | Oct 9, 2018 6:04 pm | Comments (11)
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485 Grand: Take a last look.
Commission Chair Pedro Soto, Nemerson embark on van tour.
Part of English Station is coming down. Half of Church Street South has been demolished. And barbeque is coming to Fair Haven’s new tech hub.
Those were some of the takeaways of a 45-minute van tour Tuesday focused on past, present, and future economic development projects in the center of the city.
by | Oct 4, 2018 12:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Entrance to the prime commercial space at Grand and Hamilton.
The first two buildings of the redeveloped Farnam Courts public housing development on Grand Avenue — remonikered as Mill River Crossing — are now nearly filled up. And the public-housing complex has a new name: “Mill River Crossing.”
Continue reading ‘Farnam — Er ... “Mill River Crossing” — Readies Phase 2’
by | Sep 9, 2018 3:25 pm | Comments (1)
A 28-year-old Madison man died after his car crashed and fell into the Mill River.
Continue reading ‘Driver Dies In Crash; Car, Body Recovered From Mill River’
by | Sep 5, 2018 1:57 pm | Comments (6)
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Cormorant colony discovered.
Volunteers clearing the Mill River Trail.
by | Jul 17, 2018 4:44 pm | Comments (33)
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DuBois-Walton and Mayor Harp cut ribbon on new Mill River Crossing.
The former Farnam Courts public housing development has traded its dilapidated townhouses for high-rise living, a new name, and views of the Q Bridge and East Rock that rival some of the fanciest digs downtown.
by | Jun 20, 2018 12:51 pm | Comments (3)
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DOC staffers Marvin Anderson (right) and Eric Ellison (center) at Tuesday’s Downtown-Wooster Square management team meeting.
Downtown neighbors and city officials don’t disapprove of the prisoner reentry work done by a state parole office that is slated to relocate to Grand Avenue in a few months. They’re just frustrated with the location chosen and the lack of communication between the state and the new site’s neighbors.
by | Jun 15, 2018 1:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Alder Aaron Greenberg at the opening celebration.
Mayor Toni Harp, Economic Development Officer Matthew Nemerson and other city officials gathered Thursday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Bender New Haven’s 21,000 square foot showroom at 335 East St. in the Mill River district.
by | Jun 12, 2018 2:46 pm | Comments (4)
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Dimitri Rimsky surveys remnants of Hamilton Clock Factory.
Before the new owners of the historic Hamilton Street Clock Factory seal it up and begin the arduous process of turning it into artist lofts, a few ghosts returned to haunt the buildings abandoned halls.
Continue reading ‘Artists Go Back In Time At Ex-Clock Factory’
by | May 23, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (13)
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Rendering of the future Clock Shop Lofts.
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Alder Reveiz with developer Reed before the vote.
The historic Hamilton Street clock factory will get a new lease as an apartment complex on life now that city alders have struck a deal that balances the city’s need for affordable housing with a developer’s need for tax relief to make an affordable-housing project viable.
by | May 4, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (20)
Rendering of Clock Shop Lofts.
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Festa: Good project. Tax break’s too big.
Let’s talk numbers. But let’s talk quickly.
That was the upshot of a meeting between alders and a developer about how much of a tax break the city can afford on a plan to turn an historic clock factory into 130 affordable apartments.
by | Apr 25, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Next stop: 620 Grand Ave.
The state Department of Correction’s (DOC) planned relocation of its parole office from Westville to Grand Avenue is moving forward despite city concerns that it conflicts with the development vision of the Mill River District.
by | Apr 19, 2018 8:02 am | Comments (7)
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A Mill River Trail marker on Grand Avenue.
By the end of this summer New Haveners will be able to walk and bike along a short, refurbished trail that runs adjacent to the Mill River, and get a sense of what it may be like to travel from East Rock to Criscuolo Park without needing to get in a car or bus.
by | Apr 10, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Developer Kraus with rehab rendering.
Not every environmental clean-up site involves radium.
It does if you’re cleaning up a centuries-old factory where generations of “radium girls” labored to make clock dials glow in the dark.
by | Mar 30, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (23)
Ken MacKenzie with his now-silent machines.
An historic New Haven business with the motto “Doing it right since 1864” has closed up shop, along with an old-fashioned way of making and repairing metal parts.
by | Mar 1, 2018 4:10 pm | Comments (13)
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Rendering of the planned renovation.
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Radcliffe: “One man’s trash is another man’s junk collection.”
Should the city choose artists as a special class of renters needing affordable housing?
Leslie Radcliffe posed that question as the city and an out-of-town developer prepare to transform a former clock factory into 130 apartments for artists.
by | Dec 14, 2017 1:48 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven has a long history of sizable businesses that closed their doors or pulled up stakes and moved elsewhere. So why not build local businesses from the ground up that are friendly to the environment, provide good jobs, and are unlikely to leave?
by | Dec 12, 2017 9:33 am | Comments (6)
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Anthony Allen and Michelle Stronz, the founders of A Tipping Point (ATP), at Monday night’s meeting.
A new not-for-profit committed to economic development with a social impact is looking to convert a vacant industrial building near the Mill River into the new home for a brewery, a coffee roaster and an indoor mushroom farm.
Continue reading ‘Beer, Coffee, & Mushrooms, All Under One Roof’
by | Aug 28, 2017 7:29 am | Comments (6)
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Harp introduces Blumenthal at endorsement.
Two Connecticut politicians who have ardently defended New Haven’s status as a sanctuary city promised supporters that they would continue to protect local immigrants from what they see as unjust federal orders of deportation.
Continue reading ‘Harp, Sanctuary Policy Get Senator’s Endorsement’
by | Apr 3, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (5)
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McBride: Our clients need a place to go.
New Haven’s top economic development official has promised to help a Grand Avenue homeless shelter find a new home now that the zoning board has denied its request for permission to move to an empty building on an industrial strip around the corner.
by | Feb 15, 2017 1:18 pm | Comments (5)
Lawyer Erskine McIntosh (center), with ESMS’s Arnold Johnson (left) and Curtis McBride (right) at hearing.
Operators of a Grand Avenue homeless shelter looking to move around the block will have to wait at least another month before the zoning board can vote on its relocating request. The reason for the delay: missing paperwork, and an incomplete application.
Continue reading ‘Alder, East St. Neighbors Oppose Homeless Shelter’s Move’
by | Jun 29, 2016 7:20 am | Comments (5)
Diaz at his fishing spot.
Hector Diaz was netting healthy-sized blue crabs and even big eels in the Mill River Tuesday afternoon.
Two dozen non-angling environmental and development officials from the city and state, along with Mill River Trail Association devotees, were on hand to admire the catch. They were also there to tell Diaz, through the ceremonies that ensued, that in the months and years ahead his access to the river for fishing and other enjoyments will be a lot easier.
by | May 10, 2016 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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The east side bear.
A black bear roamed around the Mill River, East Rock, Fair Haven, and Jocelyn Square Tuesday before cops and state Department of Environmental Protection officers cornered him, tranquilized him, and took him away.
by | Apr 28, 2016 1:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Mill River by 470 James St.
The city got a state grant to develop a trail along the Mill River between East Rock Park and Grand Avenue — furthering a project years in the making to create a connected system of trails and bike routes.
by | Mar 17, 2016 12:04 pm | Comments (3)
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The approved sites are directly north of the entryway at East and Ives in the picture; the proposed new piles of dry materials would be half as high as these salt piles.
Piles of steel, rebar, and other heavy industrial materials are about to grow higher along the banks of the Mill River, despite fears of neighbors about what’s in the dust that gets kicked up in the process.
Continue reading ‘“Robust Dust” Plan Clears Way For Industrial Pile To Grow’
by | Feb 25, 2016 8:45 am | Comments (13)
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Alders Wingate and Holmes with developer Salinas.
Colon: “Let’s bring this baby home.”
City lawmakers were so determined to move ahead a plan to build a new $16 million tech and innovation campus that they voted … not to vote to approve it.