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Outside Biohaven's 215 Church office.
Pharma giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $59 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing a local biopharmaceutical company of paying “kickbacks” to healthcare providers to induce them to prescribe its migraine-fighting drug to Medicaid patients.
by | Feb 3, 2025 1:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Rapini (at center above): Phone theifs don't have your face.
Trick question: What’s your password again? For each of your 4,256 apps?
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by | Jan 16, 2025 1:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Thursday's presser at DISTRICT.
Bracing for Trump II tariffs and protectionism, the Lamont administration has launched a $25 million effort to try to build out “strategic supply chains” closer to home — in an effort to get ahead of potentially higher prices for imported goods.
by | Jan 16, 2025 9:27 am | Comments (8)
One last tobacco store could soon be allowed...
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...here? As circled in red in map above.
New Haven could soon have room for only one more smoke shop — specifically on one block of industrial Water Street cut off from the rest of the city by I‑95.
by | Jan 15, 2025 10:30 am | Comments (5)
Affinity's Rino Ferrarese at WNHH FM; some of his company's strains (top).
Rino Ferrarese noticed that the people who help him grow cannabis to sell in Connecticut end up buying their own stash elsewhere.
Therein lies a challenge for Connecticut’s fledgling industry.
Continue reading ‘2 Years In, Canna-preneur Battles Bummers’
by | Jan 9, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (11)
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Signs of community life beneath the Front Street I-91 underpass.
It’s official: the city has received $2 million to stitch up the neighborhoods sliced apart by highways.
Continue reading ‘Feds Grant $2M For Local Urban Un-Renewal Effort’
by | Dec 20, 2024 10:01 am | Comments (2)
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A true New Haven circuit board melds music and apizza.
Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.
by | Dec 18, 2024 9:46 am | Comments (4)
Where once there was Demery’s and then Au Bon Pain and then Kiko Milano and then a Peabody Museum pop up and then Patagonia, signature downtown storefront 1 Broadway finally has its newest tenant: Sweetgreen.
by | Dec 11, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (3)
Renaissance maker: Virginia Kozlowski.
A mover and shaker behind New Haven’s economic development renaissance in recent decades is retiring.
by | Dec 10, 2024 3:36 pm | Comments (6)
For the first time in 20 years, there’s more than one airline operating out of Tweed New Haven Airport.
by | Dec 10, 2024 2:41 pm | Comments (14)
Can the city help bring this vision to life?
Oh, that's an alameda. Cool!
Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand Avenue to the Quinnipiac River.
And how about building up underused lots into lots more housing on East Street and on Wolcott?
Those were a few of the neighborhood-changing ideas that emerged Monday night at 162 James St., CitySeed’s new building, where city economic development officials convened a second public meeting for citizen input to envision a now-and-future identity for the Mill River District.
Continue reading ‘Alameda Animates Mill River District Visioning’
by | Nov 22, 2024 8:06 am | Comments (11)
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Blair Daniels in the East Rock Breads kitchen.
As the sun prepared to set, John Torello worked with Joe DeLucia and Joe Neagle on the finishing touches on a soon-to-open neighborhood tavern. Down the block, Joseph Jenkins and Keiry Pena were taking Thanksgiving orders from loyal customers of their new Spanish grocery. Rory Ballachino poured Silk soymilk into an evolving matcha latte inside a new coffeehouse preparing for the fifth — sixth? — community event of its first week in business. Blair Daniels was in the kitchen scooping white flour to prepare the dough for a batch of country loaf to be baked the next morning in time for the steady stream of bread-buyers.
None of these businesses was operating a year ago. They are among six setting up shop this year on just three blocks of Upper State Street, maintaining the momentum of one of New Haven’s signature “new urbanist” neighborhoods.
by | Nov 1, 2024 12:03 pm | Comments (26)
Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
New Haven’s airport has received a $4 million federal boost to help construct a new 81,000-square-foot terminal that will include four more gates.
by | Oct 31, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (1)
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In progress at ClimateHaven: Tools used to extract "valuable materials" from lithium-ion batteries.
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Justine Lee at WNHH FM: From Citibike to VC to green-tech incubator.
Justine Lee has returned to New Haven to turn climate hope into reality.
by | Oct 30, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (3)
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Evelyn Jimenez (second from left) helps cut the ribbon on J&M Home Appliance.
Evelyn Jimenez was on the lookout for a location to rent in the Nutmeg State in order to expand her Philadelphia-based home appliance business.
By chance, she ended up in Fair Haven — and decided to put down retail roots.
by | Oct 15, 2024 5:10 pm | Comments (12)
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New housing and grocery, among others, to come to former Dixwell Plaza.
On the grave of the now-demolished Dixwell Plaza, work began Tuesday on the 186 housing units, the new 69,000 square-foot headquarters for job training, and the food hall set to rise in its place.
by | Oct 10, 2024 3:23 pm | Comments (8)
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Audubon Market, now open at 59 Grove.
A Grove Street storefront that used to stock bongs, pipes, and tie-dye shirts is now a market filled with protein shakes, fruit bowls, and sandwiches.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Smoke Shop Becomes — Gasp! — Food Market’
by | Oct 10, 2024 3:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Looking through the Chapel Street window glass at an empty Elm City Market.
(Updated) Elm City Market has officially closed its 360 State St. location — in advance of the grocery store’s planned move to a smaller space a few blocks away at the “Square 10” development at the former Coliseum site.
by | Sep 30, 2024 7:20 pm | Comments (36)
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Notice the "Q" lapel: Yale Associate VP Rich Jacob, at center, at Monday's Upper Science Hill groundbreaking with new Yale prez Maurie McInnis and Gov. Ned Lamont.
McInnis and Lamont kick up some dirt with Mayor Justin Elicker and Provost Scott Strobel.
A mystery letter “Q” lapel pin whispered a dream about New Haven’s future at a groundbreaking Monday afternoon for a project that will transform Yale’s campus at the border of the East Rock neighborhood.
by | Sep 26, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (8)
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Mariam Jafaru: From nurse to boutique owner.
Gold-plated bracelets join clothes and other accessories in Jafaru's storefront.
Even during the slow hours of business, Zongozon owner Mariam Jafaru’s hands were always busy. In the back of her store, a soft whir of the sewing machine commenced as she fed it her cloth.
by | Sep 26, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Union Station, get ready for some new neighbors ...
... at the TOD coming soon-ish to the east parking lot?
Four developers are in the running to build up a state-owned surface parking lot adjacent to Union Station — as part of a transit-oriented development that is likely still several years away from breaking ground.
by | Sep 23, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (7)
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Harold Jones, in the "flow" scooping early fall leaves in Upper Westville.
“You can’t work with a cluttered mind,” said Harold Jones as he de-cluttered the Ijeh family’s front yard — on a job outing where stories of incarceration and reentry, witnessed and experienced from different angles, had a chance to intersect.
by | Sep 23, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (9)
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U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery and DEA Special Agent David Lanzoni: This was the "largest seizure of fake pills we've seen in New England."
A garage-turned-“lab” equipped with 2,000-pound pill-pressing machines churned out two million synthetic opioid pills containing ingredients more potent than even fentanyl — and now sits at the center of Connecticut’s largest ever clandestine drug manufacturing bust.
Continue reading ‘7 Arrested After Counterfeit Pill "Lab" Bust’
by | Sep 13, 2024 11:02 am | Comments (18)
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Kent Mawhinney and Alexis Kang: Give pinot noir a chance.
Hundreds of new residents will soon be allowed to move into on-the-rise apartments at the ex-Coliseum property — but they won’t be allowed to walk downstairs to buy alcohol at a “high-end” liquor store on site.
by | Sep 12, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (22)
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Harvest Mart advertises its wares, with the help of a novelty-sized blunt.
Hassan Alsufyani wanted to open up a convenience store at the entrance to Westville Village.
But local zoning law prohibits such a use at that spot — so he now sells strictly tobacco, bongs, e‑cigarettes, and vaping products instead.