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Feb 8, 2023 4:11 pm
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Townshend mansion: To host special events, to be surrounded by new houses?
Estate co-owner Chuck Mascola.
The owners of the 26-acre former Townshend family home and its surrounding properties are hoping to write a new chapter of accessible preservation into East Shore history by building roughly 50 homes behind the property’s 18th-century mansion — and by drafting a fresh set of zoning regulations to govern that development.
Chuck and Marcella Mascola, two of the three individuals who purchased that historic estate at 701, 709, 725, and 745 Townsend Ave. a year and a half ago, shared their plan to convert some of the Townsend Avenue property’s open space into housing as they pitched a broader idea to introduce “special heritage mixed use zoning districts” into the city’s zoning code.
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Feb 7, 2023 12:33 pm
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison: Acquisitions “a step in the right direction."
3 of the 4 properties the city can now buy from Ocean, including the the Monterey Jazz Club in the center.
The Elicker Administration has won its final needed approval to acquire a slate of rundown properties, including a historic long-derelict former jazz club, from an oft-cited megalandlord to the tune of $1.3 million in an effort to revitalize a stretch of Dixwell Avenue.
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Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am
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Alexander Silver Angeloff and a sampling of his creations.
When you walk into The Cultured Café on State Street, you are greeted by the feeling that you’ve walked into as natural a habitat as you can find that is not actually outside. Philodendrons wind around glass jars full of fermenting vegetables on a wooden counter. Above, cotton ball-like clouds dot a blue sky ceiling. What the café serves is also as close to nature as it can be, courtesy of the café’s owner Alexander Silver Angeloff, who is trying to make the path into the world of natural health safe, welcoming, and delicious.
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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.
As a new lab and office tower continues to rise at 101 College St., Career High School senior Laila Mohammed has her sights set on growing science-career prospects of her own — thanks to a new $200,000 scholarship fund for public school students like her who live near the development and who pursue a higher-ed degree in bioscience or STEM.
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Jan 31, 2023 11:38 am
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Rahaf Sayet about to press another pistachio halloumi panini.
Rahaf Sayet took two slices of blended whole wheat and sourdough bread from Whole G Bakery, layered on Cyprus-made cheese, and placed the sandwich in a panini press — crafting a local-foreign fusion meal that’s selling fast at a new Chapel Street Middle Eastern eatery.
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Jan 26, 2023 9:32 am
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LCI Director Arlevia Samuel: Ocean is "holding firm at the $1.3M."
The former Monterey Jazz Club, center, along with the vacant deli and one of the multi-family homes the city plans to acquire.
The Elicker Administration’s bid to acquire a slate of rundown properties from an oft-cited megalandlord in an effort to revitalize a stretch of Dixwell Avenue took one big step closer to closing — as the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI) Board of Directors signed off on the proposed $1.3 million deal.
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Jan 23, 2023 5:31 pm
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Marcella Monk Flake: Acquiring club will help preserve Dixwell history.
The derelict former jazz club at 265 Dixwell.
Can the memory of Charlie Parker breathe new life into a controversial plan to publicly acquire a blighted former jazz club as part of a $1.3 million deal with an oft-cited megalandlord?
Elicker Administration officials and Dixwell Avenue cultural boosters gave it a try as they invoked the name of the late, great saxophone player — as well as the memories of fellow 20th-century musical titans like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk — in a bid to win public support for a tentative deal still making its way through the gears of city government.
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Jan 20, 2023 5:30 pm
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Rendering of Phase 1C's new lab-office building.
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Construction currently underway at the former Coliseum site.
The redevelopers of the ex-Coliseum site won city approval to build 120 more apartments, 657 new parking-garage spaces, and a new 11-story lab and office building — all as construction of another 200 new apartments right next door has already begun — in the latest chapter of the planned overhaul of a former-arena-turned-parking lot into “Square 10.”
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Jan 20, 2023 12:49 pm
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A German biomedical research institute is putting down roots in New Haven, with newly announced plans to move into a local lab space later this year as it partners with a biopharmaceutical company to study “immunology and tissue engineering.”
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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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Jan 19, 2023 12:10 pm
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Candidate Goldenberg with East Rock/Fair Haven Alder Claudia Herrera at Pan de Cielo 2.
The following op-ed was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg.
Research on startups shows that founders who are mentored by top-performing entrepreneurs are three times more likely than their co-located peers without mentors to become top performers themselves. Yet for many minority entrepreneurs, these types of connections are out of reach. Black business owners are more likely to report having difficulty securing access to credit, being able to raise money from family and friends, and having social connections to investment fund managers.
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Jan 19, 2023 9:45 am
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Sandra's owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman: Planning to push back on zoning board rejection.
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The contested outdoor refrigeration containers on Arch St.
City zoners turned down a Congress Avenue culinary institution’s bid to store five outdoor fridges in a residentially zoned area — following testimony from the restaurant’s neighbor that the restaurant’s expansion has resulted not just in nationally renowned chicken wings, but also pesky rodents and stenches.
The restaurant’s owners now plan to contest that decision so that they can continue to keep corn, sugar, flour and plenty of perishables nearby as they look to continue serving the neighborhood they’ve long called home.
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Jan 18, 2023 8:52 am
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State Comptroller Scanlon (right) taking a baklava break with legislative liaison Kevin Kurian at Pistachio Cafe ...
... and talking retirement plans with Westville salsa entrepreneur Alisa Bowens-Mercado, Tuesday.
Angela Naranjo now puts aside 3 percent of her Westville massage-therapy paycheck towards her retirement — thanks to a new state program that encourages workers across Connecticut who do not have employer-backed retirement plans to start saving early, even if they have decades to go before leaving the workforce for good.
Naranjo, a 34-year-old Westville native, shared her story about getting ready for retirement — many years down the line — during a neighborhood walking tour promoting that program as hosted by newly elected state Comptroller Sean Scanlon.
Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
Hector Morales (second from left) takes in FBI pitch at Promise fair.
The FBI sounded interesting. Yale’s IT woman made a passionate pitch. The library and the Yale police made their cases. Aspiring forensic scientist Hector Morales heard them out and wondered: Where does his future lie?
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Jan 10, 2023 4:20 pm
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Tony Negron -- who used to go to 1351 Whalley to work at Tommy K's video -- returns as a customer to wait for a dispensary's official opening there.
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Rick Woods lights up on the ride home to North Haven.
As Tony Negron stood in line to become New Haven’s first customer of fully legal recreational weed, the 40-year-old recalled sharing a first joint with his boys at 12 years old and then eating boxed mac n’ cheese.
How did he plan to celebrate his more grown-up purchase of adult-use marijuana on Tuesday? By taking his dispensary flower home and smoking it from the comfort of his jacuzzi on a paid day off from work.
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Jan 9, 2023 1:57 pm
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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.
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Science Park Development Corp's David Silverstone: "I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt."
Science Park’s redevelopers are still planning to knock down an abandoned factory building saturated in toxic oil and marked by broken glass.
They’re now one small step closer to realizing that goal, as alders advanced a grant application that would cover a portion of the $10 million they need to demolish and remediate the derelict former site.
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Jan 6, 2023 11:09 am
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Environmental advocate Marjorie Shansky: “I don’t know when the last time New Haven amended their inland wetland regulations was. I don’t even know if it complies with the law.”
Map shows delineation of wetlands from standard soil by Wilbur Cross track, which has been approved for conversion into synthetic turf.
Inland wetlands advocates are urging city decision-makers to beef up their environmental education, training and expertise in order to help protect New Haven’s endangered ecosystems.
