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The current dirt pile at 87 Union St.: Soon to transform into nearly 300 apartments (below).
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The New York City-based developers of a planned new 299-unit, mixed-use Wooster Square apartment complex recently closed on a $50 million construction loan that should allow them to resume work at the site later this week.
by | Feb 13, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Dara Rose outside court.
Dara Rose has a month to move out of her Mandy Management-owned apartment in Newhallville — and she is happy about that, after fighting her eviction in court.
by | Feb 12, 2020 2:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Elicker with Patricia Ross. Top concern? Traffic safety.
Patricia Ross has a nickname for the stretch of Division Street outside her apartment where cars drive so quickly she feels she’s always in danger of getting hit: “The Indianapolis Raceway.”
by | Feb 7, 2020 1:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Jacob Hammond in his Newhall Gardens home.
The vent in question.
A confrontation inside a Newhallville community room started with a heater that had been broken for a year and a half — and ended by shedding light on how elderly tenants can work better with their public-housing landlord to keep their homes safe.
by | Jan 29, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (4)
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Hamden Lt. Tim Wydra.
Hamden Police Lt. Tim Wydra said he was bringing advice for the “ladies” of New Haven’s Newhallville Community Management Team: Amid a dramatic uptick in purse snatchings in recent weeks, “do your best not to be a victim.”
Continue reading ‘Purse Snatchings Plague Newhallville, Newhall’
by | Jan 29, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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Environmental remediation contractors at 71 Shelton.
Blinky the three-eyed fish was nowhere to be found at the site of a former nuclear manufacturing facility in Newhallville.
The fenced-off demolition area was instead replete with dozens of tightly-sealed intermodal containers filled with uranium-impacted concrete, asbestos, and lead dust — as well as hardhat-wearing remediation contractors working to complete a $10 million federally funded clean-up.
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601 Sherman Parkway.
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Rebuilder Ferdinand Escoffery.
The city had two properties to sell. They were so rundown that even investors snapping up properties around town were uninterested. Two teardowns loomed.
Enter a homegrown rebuilder who rescues precarious properties. The city plans to sell him the two properties — at Sherman Parkway and Rosette Street — so he can rehab the buildings into owner-occupied single-family homes.
by | Jan 26, 2020 6:51 pm | Comments (10)
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Rev. Al Sharpton and Gwen Carr at Sunday’s memorial service. Below: Boise Kimber stands alongside the many family members who gathered to remember Mubarak Soulemane.
Al Sharpton leaned into the microphone to make sure his local audience of hundreds, and his national audience of millions, got the point:
A 19-year-old black New Havener was shot and killed inside a car by a white state trooper earlier this month. This injustice must not go unnoticed, and the increasing trend of police officers serving as judge, jury, and executioner for black men accused of crimes “can’t be normalized.”
by | Jan 17, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (39)
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Saeed Soulemane speaks out Friday. Above: body cam and dash cam footage from the chase and shooting.
Mubarak Soulemane.
State police shot to death a 19-year-old Fair Havener who was schizophrenic and a second-year Gateway Community College student who loved basketball and lacrosse.
The brother and uncle of Mubarak Soulemane painted that picture Friday amid calls for a federal probe.
Hours later, state police released body cam and dash cam footage from the car chase and shooting — revealing a state trooper firing a handful of shots at Soulemane through a closed driver-side window.
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 19, 2019 9:00 am | Comments (5)
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Middle school’s current home.
By next summer, the Achievement First charter network will vacate and sell the Newhallville building currently housing half of Elm City College Preparatory Middle School, according to a plan approved Wednesday night.
by | Dec 19, 2019 8:58 am | Comments (6)
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Developer Jeffrey Chung with skeptical Newhallville resident Lillie Chambers. Below: 201 Munson design.
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A nearly 400-unit upscale apartment complex to be built atop a long-vacant former factory site on the Dixwell/Newhallville border earned a key city approval — as well as words of frustration from city planners over their lack of authority to mandate any kind of rent affordability provisions for the project.
by | Dec 15, 2019 9:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Linda Davis-Cannon.
Each year, Linda Davis-Cannon leads a group of around eleven local teenagers to become stewards of Newhallville as paid neighborhood “ambassadors.” Over the course of a six-week leadership training program, the ambassadors pursue community projects based on their interests. In past years, they’ve cleaned up litter, tended to street planters, and beautified local parks. They’ve also produced community newsletters and brochures about recycling.
With tears in her eyes, Davis-Cannon recalled a presentation this year’s cohort gave about their vision for Newhallville, sharing ideas for increased safety and a new community center.
“They’ve grown,” she said of the teens who participated. “I still have a lot of contact with the youth, who use me as a reference or just sit down and chat.”
by | Dec 9, 2019 8:47 am | Comments (7)
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Three Newhallville advocates rode a school bus from Lincoln Bassett to High School in the Community — not to attend classes, but to join 300 fellow city residents looking to have their voices heard and earn “a seat at the table” with the new incoming mayoral administration.
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Boards The Transition Express’
by | Dec 4, 2019 8:56 am | Comments (14)
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Elm City College Prep student works on 3-D design.
Achievement First is looking at combining two charter schools into one building to free up hundreds of thousands of dollars from its donor-reliant budget.
by | Dec 3, 2019 4:35 pm | Comments (1)
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City-owned lot on West Division. Below: Hopfner.
The Yale School of Architecture and Columbus House plan to transform a city-owned vacant lot and an adjacent trash-filled parcel in Newhallville into a new owner-occupied house and two new units of affordable housing, six years after students fled the neighborhood.
by | Nov 27, 2019 1:29 pm | Comments (43)
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201 Munson design. Below: Jeffrey Chung reports to neighbors.
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The developer of a nearly 400-unit upscale complex planned for a former Newhallville factory site committed to setting aside 10 percent of the apartments at affordable rates — with no public subsidy required — and to hiring 25 percent of the construction labor from the Elm City.
by | Nov 26, 2019 8:59 am | Comments (1)
New Haven’s city clerk took on a new job duty: climbing a pole to save the day.
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Fowler: “4 years of bogus litigation” precipitated sale.
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The old Comcast building at 630 Chapel St.
After overcoming a half-decade of hurdles to develop the former Comcast site and a nearby lot, one of New Haven’s busiest developers flipped the properties for nearly five times their initial purchase price to a Houston-based global development firm, in the city’s latest property transactions.
Continue reading ‘Spinnaker Flips Comcast Project For $14.6M’
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Outside Ward 7 Tuesday.
Tuesday’s mayoral election appeared headed for a larger voter turnout than in the September primary, but perhaps not as high as the last time the same two candidates squared off.
by | Oct 24, 2019 12:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Serena Neal-Sanjurjo: “Good things happening” in Newhallville.
City-owned vacant lots at the corner of Thompson Street and Winchester Avenue will boast nine new affordable two-family homes in an initiative to build wealth and “opportunities for investment.”
City neighborhoods chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo announced the project at a Newhallville Community Management Team gathering.
by | Oct 23, 2019 3:04 pm | Comments (8)
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GE ‘s Van Nortwick with picture of 71 Shelton’s collapsing roof.
Rodney Williams with NRC’s Anthony Dimitriadis.
The public health danger posed by the former nuclear manufacturing facility on Shelton Avenue isn’t its few remaining uranium-impacted walls, but rather its toxic wealth of lead-contaminated dust and asbestos fibers.
A General Electric expert delivered that message to Newhallville neighbors concerned about the building’s demolition.
by | Oct 21, 2019 11:36 am | Comments (20)
Continue reading ‘Hamden Officer Arrested; Yale Officer Not Charged; State Investigation Published’
by | Oct 18, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (5)
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A digital rendering of the proposed 201 Munson project. Below: The current site’s dirt stockpile, which can now remain in place through July 2020.
The new owners of 201 Munson St. plan to build 392 apartments on a large, vacant formerly industrial site on the Dixwell/Newhallville border — and have been granted an extra year to remove the towering stockpile of clean dirt that has been standing there since last summer.
by | Oct 10, 2019 4:53 pm | Comments (11)
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Ricky Evans with Justin Elicker, Darryl Brackeen, and Chris Murphy Thursday at Ricky D’s Rib Shack.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy swung by Science Park to endorse a new generation of economic development — and political leadership — in a city booming with biotech business talent.