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City Plan’s Leslie Radcliffe: It will take “one failure to be a tragedy.”
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Driverless shuttles: Coming soon to a hospital near you?
A plan to test driverless shuttles on New Haven streets advanced Wednesday night — with dissenters raising fears about public safety and the loss of human drivers’ jobs.
by | Jan 7, 2020 11:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Proposed garage at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center, St. Raphael’s campus expansion, and associated parking garages earned a suite of unanimous aldermanic approvals, paving the way for construction of the nearly $1 billion project to begin later this spring.
by | Jan 7, 2020 6:11 pm | Comments (4)
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Peter Davis, Dennis Riordan, Jolene Woodard, Craig Repasz, Robin Ladouceur, Chris Howe, Jean Webber, Matt Mallon, Patrick Lynch, Lauren Chicoski, Ranger Harry Coyle (kneeling), and Sam Rubin.
We did it, and it was pretty amazing.
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 11, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (23)
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Neuroscience center critics at Tuesday night’s hearing.
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One of the proposed new parking garages, at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s pitch to transform the city’s healthcare economy with a new $838 million neuroscience center earned the project four key aldermanic committee sign-offs — as well as impassioned testimony from Dwight neighbors worried about gentrification, traffic congestion, air pollution, and historic property demolition.
by | Dec 6, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (10)
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The proposed new garage (left) at Chapel and Orchard as connected to the existing St. Raphael hospital (right).
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Olivia Martson with a 2008 map of surface (red) and garage (yellow) parking in New Haven.
Dwight neighbors revved up concerns about increased parking and traffic from Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center and renovated Saint Raphael Campus — while a hospital spokesperson pointed out that the many new patients, doctors, staff, and visitors for the nearly $1 billion project will have to park somewhere.
by | Dec 6, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (2)
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Site of planned new Cambria hotel at corner of Dwight and MLK.
A Maryland-based hotel chain that plans to build a 130-room upscale hotel on the “Route 34 West” superblock bought the parcel for $2.8 million, in the city’s latest property sales.
by | Dec 2, 2019 9:14 am | Comments (8)
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Latest rendering of YNHH’s proposed new neuroscience center.
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Shepley Bulfinch architect Andre Kamili, YNHH Vice President Facilities Design Stephen Carbery, YNHH Senior Vice President Operations Michael Holmes, and Milford attorney John Knuff.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center and renovated St. Raphael campus should result in $1 billion of economic activity over the coming five years, path-breaking research and medical care for victims of strokes and Parkinson’s Disease and ALS for many years after that — and a roughly 1,000-space increase to the campus’s current parking demand.
The hospital revealed those details as it won a handful of recommendations for regulatory approvals it needs before beginning construction on the mammoth new project next summer.
by | Nov 7, 2019 4:23 pm | Comments (6)
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The Sherman Medical Building at 136 Sherman.
A Stratford investor purchased a Sherman Avenue medical office building for $2.7 million; a large-scale local landlord picked up over 50 apartments in West River, Edgewood, and Amity for over $4.7 million; and Yale University bought a surface parking lot next to its business school for over three times the lot’s appraised value — all in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Oct 31, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (8)
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Sandra’s at its current location on Congress Avenue.
Zoning commissioners Wednesday night signed off on the planned expansion in the Hill of a popular soul food restaurant. They granted parking relief for a planned 44-unit apartment complex in Dwight. And they approved a new resident-run cafe in a planned affordable housing complex in West River.
All in 15 minutes.
by | Oct 22, 2019 3:20 pm | Comments (15)
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Breaking ground for the new parking garage: Lynn Fusco, BOA President Tyisha Walker-Myers, Mayor Toni Harp, Larry Stubbs, Peter Levin, Michael Piscitelli, Jim Marzi. Below: The design of the new garage.
Dozens turned out for the groundbreaking of the “Rt. 34 West” superblock’s latest development — a four-story, 763-space parking garage owned by the Hartford-based LAZ Parking.
by | Oct 17, 2019 10:48 am | Comments (14)
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The designs of various Cambria Hotels around the country.
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HighSide Construction Management’s Doug Miller: No design rendering yet. Check out the Cambria site for examples.
The developers of a planned new six-story, 130-room hotel won a key city sign-off in their bid to build the next large project on the “Route 34 West” superblock.
by | Oct 2, 2019 2:19 pm | Comments (9)
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Petrini updates the management team.
There will not be one huge tower but rather two buildings, neither more than eight stories, so as not to overwhelm the residential neighborhood. One will be cantilevered over the current surgery center and the other beside it but set back from the street and buffered with landscaping.
by | Sep 23, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (1)
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Emergency workers Sunday night found and retrieved the body of a man who drowned in the West River.
by | Sep 20, 2019 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
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The 4.5-acre site of the future development, at Tyler Street and Legion Avenue, where the coffee shop would be.
Builders want to add a small, six-seat coffee shop and bakery so residents of a ten-townhouse, 56-apartment community planned for long-vacant land at the far western end of the Route 34 Connector can grab a java before or after work.
Continue reading ‘Coffee Shop/ Bakery Pitched For Ghost Development’
by | Aug 21, 2019 11:52 am | Comments (0)
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A 472-space surface parking lot in West River will remain a 472-space surface parking lot for at least another year, per a newly signed agreement between the city’s parking authority and Yale New Haven Hospital.
Continue reading ‘Sherman/Tyler Lot To Remain Surface Parking’
by | Aug 14, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (9)
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Professors from Puerto Rico Tuesday by soldier’s grave.
Lt. Augusto Rodriguez.
A Civil War veteran’s severed thigh bone is headed on an overseas journey from New Haven to San Juan, where it will be enshrined as a century-old reminder of the American democracy that Puerto Ricans have fought to defend but are still barred from fully participating in.
Continue reading ‘Bones Unearth City’s Puerto Rican History’
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:53 am | Comments (7)
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Tyisha Walker-Myers, Frank Douglass and Evette Hamilton at joint annouhncemnt
Affordable housing and public safety are among the main concerns for the a team of alders who call themselves the “Three Musketeers” and are seeking another two years in office.
by | Jun 14, 2019 2:35 pm | Comments (34)
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Chantell Hamilton with husband Nate Lewis.
Chantell Hamilton left her West River apartment to walk her 4‑year-old daughter a block away to a school bus stop.
She returned a half hour later to find cops waiting to arrest her for allegedly leaving her 3‑year-old daughter and 4‑month-old son alone at home. Marched out in handcuffs in front of a wall of TV news cameras, she was subsequently slapped with a $25,000 bail bond and sent to lock-up at 1 Union Ave. for the afternoon until a neighbor bailed her out.
by | Jun 4, 2019 8:12 am | Comments (7)
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YNHH architect William Brothers presents plan for 150 Sargent primary care hub (pictured below.)
Yale New Haven Hospital received its final needed city sign-offs Monday night for two major planned renovation projects, including for the Long Wharf building it has proposed to fit out as a new primary care hub.
The hospital now needs only a final approval from state regulators before it can start making that centralized primary care vision a reality.
by | May 21, 2019 7:44 am | Comments (14)
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Proposed neuroscience center at Sherman and George.
Buoyed by three approvals Monday night, Yale New Haven Hospital plans to move a 60-child daycare center to George Street and to expand a church-turned-medical office building on Sherman Avenue in order to make way for a new $838 million neuroscience center at its St. Raphael’s Campus.
by | May 15, 2019 12:32 pm | Comments (6)
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Brodie Fair Haven holdings: 52 Maltby, 127 Clay 143 Fillmore, 154 Fillmore., 114 Lloyd, 161 Clay, 176 Wolcott, 191 Wolcott, 176 Wolcott.
Note: This article has been substantively updated since its first publication, now with an interview with Brodie about his background and investment strategy.
A 33-year-old, Monsey, N.Y.-based landlord bumped his local apartment holdings up to 347 units with the recent purchase of eight two and three-family homes in Fair Haven, the Hill, West River, and Westville.
That’s 347 more than when he started out in real estate a decade ago, when he first learned about investment opportunities in New Haven through a chance encounter at a gym in upstate New York.
by | May 6, 2019 3:17 pm | Comments (10)
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3 women, 1 deal: Harp, Borgstrom, Walker-Myers.
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Proposed neuroscience center at George & Sherman.
West River has a chance to rebuild its business core, upgrade its housing and link neighbors to good jobs.
New Haven can put hundreds of more people to work, not to mention collect a needed $11.9 million in the short term.
by and | Apr 29, 2019 12:33 pm | Comments (43)
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Proposed center at George & Sherman.
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Harp: Game-changer for city.
Yale-New Haven Hospital Monday unveiled plans to build up its St. Raphael campus with a 505,000-square foot, $838 million neuroscience center for research and treatment of diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and strokes.
by | Mar 25, 2019 3:31 pm | Comments (20)
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Developers Jason Rudnick and Yves-Georges A. Joseph II.
New Haven has another plan for a new hotel — and this one will welcome a unionized workforce.