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Feb 10, 2023 10:04 am
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Vacant former Winchester factory at Munson/Mansfield ...
... Kim Harris with Harris & Tucker students: Hoping to see a "great, eye-popping development that will move everyone forward."
Alders endorsed a 17-year tax break deal for dozens of planned new below-market-rent Science Park apartments — as part of a broader set of local legislative proposals designed to further the redevelopment of the former Winchester Arms Factory’s remaining parking lots and vacant industrial buildings into new housing, retail, and bioscience labs.
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Feb 2, 2023 3:32 pm
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PDD update pitch, with planned new developments in red.
The current surface parking lot at 110 Munson.
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Developer Alex Twining: Part of the "replacement of parking lots with places to work and live."
A 200-space Munson Street parking lot could be the site of New Haven’s next biotech lab building — according to a Winchester-factory-redevelopment zoning update that received a favorable, if still skeptical, recommendation from the City Plan Commission.
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Lisa Reisman |
Feb 1, 2023 12:30 pm
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At Tuesday's presser: KeyBank's Analisha Michanczyk, ConnCORP COO Paul McCraven, KeyBank's Matthew Hummel, ConnCORP Board Chair Carlton Highsmith; ConnCorp CEO Erik Clemons, Lab Executive Director Aya Beckles Swanson, and ConnCORP Chief Investment Officer Anna Blanding.
A vegan baker, a mobile notary, and a professional organizer were among the 20 hand-picked Greater New Haven minority business owners to embark on a rigorous entrepreneurial boot camp — and to benefit from a new $1 million grant designed in part to help that program and its participants thrive.
At Saturday's press conference at First Calvary Baptist Church.
A dozen Black community leaders, politicians, and pastors gathered in Newhallville to mourn the latest nation-shaking episode of police brutality — and to draw a connection between the arrests of five Memphis cops for the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, and the arrests of five New Haven cops for the mishandling of Richard “Randy” Cox.
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 27, 2023 2:28 pm
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At Thursday's First Calvary Baptist Church-hosted conversation. Clockwise from top left: Shepard St. resident Addie Kimbrough, top state's attorney Pat Griffin, youth anti-violence organizer Remidy Shareef, Rev. John Lewis.
Before December, “I had never seen anyone die,” Addie Kimbrough told a room full of police, prosecutors, clergy, and politicians. Until, on the block where she founded a community garden, she witnessed a young man lying on the ground.
He was the same age as her grandson: 24. “I saw them trying to revive him,” Kimbrough said later. That moment “touched me.”
She found herself taking the mic at a community meeting calling for change and volunteering to help. “I don’t want this to happen to any of our kids.”
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 23, 2023 12:48 pm
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Maceo "Troy" Streater (center) with campaign supporters at King-Robinson.
(Updated) Maceo “Troy” Streater ended up on top of a four-way special election for Ward 21 alder, making him the next local legislative representative for a zig-zagged district that stretches across parts of Newhallville, Dixwell, and Prospect Hill.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 19, 2023 4:56 pm
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Yale SOM Dean Kerwin Charles at Wednesday's talk.
Improve “information deficits,” build “genuine partnerships,” and lead with respect.
Kerwin Charles laid out those goals as he described his deliberate path towards forging a new Yale business school-developed center designed to foster economic growth outside of the walls of New Haven’s Ivory Tower.
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 18, 2023 5:37 pm
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Maceo Troy Streater knocks on Ann Garrett Robinson's door Wednesday.
A team of formerly-incarcerated campaigners rally behind Streater.
Door after door, Maceo Troy Streater set out in the neighborhood where he’s lived his whole life to campaign for a newly vacant alder seat — and to convince neighbors that personal and political change is possible.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 13, 2023 10:50 am
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Fred Christmas at the door with Dixwell resident Sharon Green.
Fred Christmas bounded onto Winter Street in the biting January air, holding a manila envelope of campaign leaflets in his hand.
The Ward 21 alder hopeful had spent the morning talking with Dixwell voters, and was running late for a meetup with some neighborhood senior citizens. But there were still a few more doors to knock — and Christmas was on a mission.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Dec 21, 2022 9:11 am
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Ann Swain and Kim Harris at management team holiday party.
Ann Swain wiped tears from her eyes as Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris listed all of the little reasons that make her a neighborhood hero — from returning trash cans to neighbors’ homes after the garbage truck comes to going door-to-door to making sure every kid on the street gets treats from block parties they couldn’t attend.
Local contractor and Newhallville native Rodney Williams.
A dozen New York City-based developers, investors, and local city officials dug in and tossed ceremonial shovels full of dirt — as a team of hard-hatted construction workers behind them continued transforming a 13-acre former contaminated industrial site into 398 new places to live.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 9, 2022 9:08 am
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First graders erupt from mountain pose at Lincoln Bassett.
Lincoln Bassett School first graders took a break from their usual class instruction to witness a volcanic eruption.
Luckily, the eruption took place during a yoga lesson where the students locked their fingers together, pointed them to the sky in a mountain pose, and then made them burst apart into what resembled an explosive geological wonder.
Mark Douglas: Delayed conviction erasure is "definitely a big disappointment."
Disappointed and resolved, Mark Douglas spoke out about about how years-old misdemeanor convictions still haunt his bid for gainful employment — as he and other statewide criminal justice reform advocates pressed to keep a spotlight on Connecticut’s “clean slate” bill even if its rollout is slower than expected.
CHFA's Lisa Hensley, NeighborWorks America's Eileen Anderson, Alder Steve Winter, Alonda Emery, U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, and LCI's Arlevia Samuel at Friday's groundbreaking.
Alonda Emery never thought she’d own her own home — right up until she stood with a smile, and a shovel, atop the very Newhallville lot where her future new house will soon be built.
Two New Jersey-based investors have purchased the 158-unit Winchester Lofts luxury apartment complex — capping off a two-year local real estate spending spree that has seen that same landlord duo buy a total of 632 New Haven apartments for a price tag likely well in excess of $100 million.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 8, 2022 4:39 pm
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Enthusiastic kids, more enthusiastic politicians shouting "VOTE" Tuesday.
A new political polling group arrived at Lincoln Bassett School and discovered two preliminary findings: Newhallville is an overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood — and “the floor is lava!”
Demarlo Allen with Winter outside King/Robinson polls: Is early voting safe?
Boosting electoral reform, with the help of stickers.
“If democracy isn’t accessible, it isn’t really democracy.”
With those words of caution — and with plenty of democracy-boosting stickers and flyers and lawn signs to boot — Steve Winter made an Election Day pitch to fellow Newhallville residents to vote yes for early voting.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 31, 2022 9:33 am
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Artist Arizona Taylor.
On Friday evening, the small park between Shelton Avenue, the Farmington Canal Trail, and Hazel Street bloomed into a small arts festival that warmed the cool evening with an explosion of color, sound, and good conversation. It was the beginning of the Artspace-organized Open Source Festival’s weekend of making visual art appear across New Haven, not only from downtown, Westville, and East Rock, but from Newhallville and Dixwell to the Hill and Mill River.
