by | Feb 19, 2016 8:39 am | Comments (1)
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Fuss & O’Neill Engineer Ron Bomengen presents clean-up plan.
Developers looking to transform the former CT Transit bus depot into a multimillion-dollar tech and innovation campus can start moving dirt this month — to demolish a huge piece of the existing building and to cart away contaminated dirt.
by | Jan 28, 2016 9:42 am | Comments (28)
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Walker: City Hall’s fault, not ours.
The governor has OK’d sending New Haven $5.5 million to clean up a polluted former state bus depot so a new tech campus can rise there. Now the question is how quickly the project can move through the city’s own delayed approval process.
by | Dec 21, 2015 8:10 am | Comments (2)
“Most martial artists think capoeira is just a dance,” said Efraim Silva, “but it is really a very powerful hidden martial art.”
Continue reading ‘“I Am More Brazilian Than When I Was In Brazil”’
by | Oct 28, 2015 12:13 pm | Comments (4)
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Crews were at work Tuesday on Dwight Gardens.
Ladders were up and the saws out to prepare a Dwight housing complex for along-awaited rebirth, thanks in part to a $3.75 million loan from the state.
Continue reading ‘$3.75M State Loan Keeps Dwight Gardens Rescue On Track’
by | Aug 28, 2015 12:27 pm | Comments (6)
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A small fire led the city to order the city to do what the city planned to do anyway: Demolish an abandoned factory addition at 142 River St.
Continue reading ‘Fire Finishes Off Former Pipe Bending Addition’
by | Aug 3, 2015 5:33 pm | Comments (10)
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Logan on the walk-through.
Fish swim in it, birds nest by its banks, and soon even pedestrians may be able to walk comfortably along the shore of an historic city river.
Continue reading ‘Trailblazers Clear Way For A Mill River Path’
by | Jul 16, 2015 1:12 pm | Comments (8)
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New Haven still believes it can do better than having a strip club at a sprawling complex where more than 1,500 workers once turned out more than three million clocks a year. The state has agreed to help that quest.
Continue reading ‘State Approves $200K For Clock Factory Study’
by | Jun 19, 2015 1:59 pm | Comments (16)
Carter: Big-box food stores are interested.
An abandoned bus garage at the gateway to Fair Haven could become a big-box supermarket — or else a “cool space” incubation hub for “a new generation of makers.”
Continue reading ‘470 James Choice: Tech Vs. Food; Local Vs. NYC’
by | May 28, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (18)
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One of New Haven’s hottest new-media entrepreneurs and his landlord, a deep-pocket New York developer, are competing to turn a vacant former CT Transit bus garage into what the city envisions as a slice of Brooklyn.
Continue reading ‘Landlord, Tenant Vie To Revive State & James’
by | Apr 3, 2015 1:31 pm | Comments (0)
The cops showed up at Farnam Courts — to bring in the Easter holiday.
by | Mar 25, 2015 3:25 pm | Comments (1)
Amid the whining of power sanders, the droning of drills, and stereos playing Mexican folk music, the interior of a future bar or restaurant was taking shape in the corner of a Fair Haven factory. A light haze of sawdust mixed with the strong scent of varnish as a bee’s nest of activity continues.
by | Jul 28, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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Gilvarg (left) shows Klee an eroded stretch of Long Wharf.
Let’s fix that pier — and give the fisherman who climbed around that chain-link fence more places to catch snapper.
by | Jul 17, 2014 8:31 am | Comments (37)
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The housing authority’s latest plans to revamp a Grand Avenue public-housing complex call for two new mid-rise apartment buildings with a corner store, 13 townhouses — and, down the line, buying and tearing down the homeless shelter next door.
Continue reading ‘New Farnam Courts May Push Out Men’s Shelter’
by | Jul 10, 2014 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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The lights are out, but the pipes are moving in.
by | Jul 2, 2014 9:07 am | Comments (0)
A plan to breathe new life into an old industrial area sailed to approval at City Hall Tuesday night.
by | Jul 1, 2014 7:51 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven’s receiving millions of dollars to repair damage from the great superstorm of 2012 and prepare for superstorms to come in an era of climate change.
by | Jun 25, 2014 6:38 am | Comments (2)
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Sherill Baldwin stood in front of a single slide introducing EcoWorks, a waste reduction and upcycling nonprofit that “seeks to make garbage fun.” That concept is coming to an emerging revived industrial district of New Haven, she said, outlining the organization’s plans for a new creative reuse center for the arts and “reboutique.”
Continue reading ‘Mill River Revival Plan Includes Greenway, “Upcycler”’