by | Nov 15, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (1)
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The old Comcast building at 630 Chapel St.
Four years of legal disputes over the proposed development of the old Comcast service center on Chapel Street are just about over, paving the way for a busy Norwalk-based developer to convert the property into 200 luxury apartments.
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by | Nov 14, 2018 8:42 am | Comments (4)
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22 Hallock Ave.
A local mega-landlord increased its City Point footprint with the recent acquisition of an apartment complex and an adjacent two-family home on Hallock Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Latest Sales: Mandy Expands In City Point’
by | Nov 12, 2018 1:32 pm | Comments (3)
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The Yalesville Fife and Drum Corps march down Chapel Street during October’s Columbus Day Parade.
The city’s Columbus Day Parade ended in the black this year, and paid the city back for the thousands of dollars worth of police overtime that it incurred.
by | Nov 9, 2018 2:00 pm | Comments (25)
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23 proposed St. Michael’s apartments.
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Anstress Farwell (second from left) with Wooster Square neighbors.
“What’s going to happen to the neighborhood?” Ralph Marcarelli asked. “What’s going to happen to the church?”
by | Nov 9, 2018 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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94 East Rock Rd.
An East Rock home recently sold for over $1 million — still a rare feat for New Haven residences, even in the East Rock neighborhood’s pricey housing market.
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by | Nov 7, 2018 4:00 pm | Comments (4)
Steele checks in with vote pullers Alex Perry, Sr. and Alex Perry, Jr. in the basement of Varick church.
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Ann Robinson with pastor and vote-puller Kelcy Steele.
When New Haveners like Ann Robinson produced a 23,278-vote city victory margin Tuesday to elect Connecticut’s next governor, they weren’t thinking as much about Ned Lamont. They were thinking about Donald Trump.
And in Robinson’s case, about Greenville, N.C.
by | Oct 31, 2018 4:20 pm | Comments (21)
Scores, looking down Saint John Street.
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Attorneys DiCrosta and Lawlor in housing court.
New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130 low-income housing units and artist lofts.
by | Oct 31, 2018 12:56 pm | Comments (6)
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722 Orchard St.
A faith-based nonprofit developer sold a rehabbed Orchard Street home to a low-income buyer, marking its fifth gut rehab and affordable housing conversion completed on a single block between Charles Street and Henry Street.
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by | Oct 24, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (12)
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Grand looking west at Jefferson, at the City Seed building, site of the much missed Frank’s hardware store.
A grocery, a deli, florist, a coffee shop, or an all-purpose hardware store so you wouldn’t have to drive five miles to pick up a nut, bolt, or screw.
An ethnic restaurant with tables on the sidewalk, to be welcoming. Something that says “neighborhood.”
And how about lowering traffic speeds, less loitering, and attracting foot traffic beyond clients of social service agencies?
by | Oct 23, 2018 1:30 pm | Comments (0)
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by | Oct 22, 2018 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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NHR’s Juan Salas-Romer.
A local developer who has made a name building apartments for middle-income renters is shedding smaller properties to invest in larger-unit ventures Downtown and in Fair Haven Heights, as reflected in some of the latest recorded land sales in town.
Continue reading ‘Latest Sales: NHR Sheds Small To Focus Big’
by | Oct 17, 2018 8:04 am | Comments (2)
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Netz Group Chief Investment Officer Frank Micali.
One of the city’s largest private landlord groups plans to convert three vacant Wooster Square former church buildings into 23 upscale apartments, pending zoning approval of the church’s request to correct a faulty property line.
Continue reading ‘Mandy Plans 23 Upscale Aptartments for Wooster Square’
by | Oct 15, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (11)
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Shiller: Prices up 30 percent since 1975.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
by | Oct 10, 2018 8:07 am | Comments (5)
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The proposed new Avis Car Rental service on Olive Street.
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Developer Arsalan Altaf pitches zoners Monday night.
A request for a special exception for a rental car company on Olive Street to store its cars indoors sparked a rift among neighbors about whether such a business should come to Wooster Square at all.
by | Oct 10, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (9)
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Rendering of future Clock Shop Lofts.
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Development staffers Clayton Williams and Carlos Eyzaguirre at Tuesday’s commission meeting.
The developers of a new 133-unit low-income and artist loft housing complex in Wooster Square will get $800,000 in city-managed federal funds to help pay for part of the site’s estimated $6.6 million environmental remediation.
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 7, 2018 7:05 pm | Comments (27)
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Wearing tricorner hats and colonial uniforms, the Yalesville Fife and Drum Corps marched down the middle of Chapel Street to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Not far behind in white-collared shirts and black-and-yellow bowties, the Stylettes Drill Team stepped back and forth and spun in sync to the percussive beat of their own three drummers.
Continue reading ‘Diversity Defines Parade’s New Haven Turn’
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 20, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (0)
New Haveners sipped booze and soda out of iconic anthora cups while appreciating the art of Michael Angelis at a pop-up show at 169 East St., the studio where he collaborated with Lunch Money Print to host his latest exhibit, “Disposable Aesthetics.”
The show gained popularity after his anthora cup print sold out in preorders.
by | Sep 11, 2018 8:33 am | Comments (3)
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Boarded-up windows at 873-887 Grand.
The city’s going after a Great Neck, N.Y. landlord — to the tune of $50,000 — for a mess he allegedly has created on Grand Avenue.
by | Sep 5, 2018 7:21 pm | Comments (11)
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Metropolitan Business Academy.
Still easing into the academic year, students were dismissed early on Wednesday afternoon, after three schools were affected by a mid-morning power outage.
by | Aug 23, 2018 1:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Developer Arsalan Altaf presents the proposed plan to neighbors.
Another vehicle-rental service plans to come to Wooster Square.
by | Aug 23, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (7)
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The Charles T. McQueeney Towers.
The city’s housing authority will receive nearly $8 million from the state to rehabilitate two local public-housing complexes, one downtown and one in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘State Lends $8M For Local Public Housing Rehab’
by | Jul 23, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (3)
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Maria Maddalena statue carried through Wooster Square Sunday.
Rheta DeBenedet slid a tray of assorted desserts past a plate of cannolis while instructing the guests filing into the common room to skip straight to the food –– unless of course they wanted coffee. They would have to wait their turn to snag an Americano.
by | Jul 19, 2018 7:49 am | Comments (7)
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The new 87 Union St.
City planners granted the brand new owners of a Union Street property a five-year extension to complete the previous owner’s plans for a long-delayed mixed-use development on the downtown side of Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘New Owners Get 5-Year Extension For Wooster Sq. Project’