by | Mar 28, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (16)
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Ex-Coliseum, next bioscience hub? Below: Ancora CEO Parker.
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Why is a London-insurance-giant-backed real estate developer about to drop $220 million on constructing a new 11-story lab and office building atop a “10th Square” surface parking lot?
Two words: Yale. Bioscience.
by | Mar 27, 2023 8:46 am | Comments (3)
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A sample of Tierra Soap Co.'s offerings.
For some, a bar of soap is a common household item that helps them get their body clean. For Tierra Soap Co., a bar of soap has become a fusion of art, wellness, and culture as well as a way to connect to earth, nature, and community.
by | Mar 21, 2023 12:23 pm | Comments (4)
You can help us fix this mess. Or we’ll do it ourselves.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent that message to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal To Big Tech: “Reform Is Coming”’
by | Mar 17, 2023 3:08 pm | Comments (14)
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Neighbor Shawn Nesmith outside 949 Whalley: "Tell them to get rid of that blighted property."
Still fenced off. Still tax-exempt.
A former Westville department store remains fenced off, empty and rundown — 20 years after the Church of Scientology bought the property, five years after the church last won permission to convert the site into a religious hub, and one year after a city board found that the long-vacant building should stay off the tax rolls.
Continue reading ‘20 Years On, Scientology Site Still Stalled’
by | Mar 17, 2023 3:02 pm | Comments (27)
Rendering of planned apartment complex situated next to St. Luke's.
St. Luke's — and Papa John's — hanging out together on Friday morning.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church received a final OK to demolish Papa John’s pizza to bring 55 new affordable apartments to the holy gateway of Whalley Avenue.
by | Mar 16, 2023 11:10 am | Comments (18)
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A sketch of the proposed new Long Wharf Drive park.
An aldermanic committee endorsed the Elicker Administration’s plan to build a new community marina and expanded waterfront park on Long Wharf — as well as a cafe kiosk and bathroom on the Green and a family-friendly playground downtown — if the city manages to secure $32.1 million in infrastructure-boosting state aid.
by | Mar 13, 2023 2:23 pm | Comments (6)
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Banking Commissioner Perez at a New Haven Hill neighborhood housing groundbreaking.
Jorge Perez had a message for Connecticut Monday: “Don’t panic.”
by | Mar 13, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
Danielle Deadwyler and Jalyn Hall in Till.
Arnold Gorlick saw one of the best leading-actress performances on the screen — then was outraged not to see it acknowledged Sunday night at the Oscars.
Continue reading ‘Till Omission "Crime" Committed At Oscars’
by | Mar 10, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (17)
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A rendering of the future Winchester Green apartments.
Alders approved a 17-year tax abatement for dozens of planned new income-restricted apartments in Science Park — along with a rezoning plan that could allow for even more places to live, shop, and conduct research at the former Winchester factory site.
by | Mar 9, 2023 4:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Lieblich: Whalley needs help.
Security footage of burglar seeking to open cash drawer.
Police said they have a suspect in a string of commercial burglaries and are buttressing patrols to help business owners like Benny Lieblich avoid needing to pay to replace any more broken windows.
by | Mar 9, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (14)
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Here to stay: The Koffee? outdoor parking-space patio.
Duncan Goodall won’t need to dismantle an outdoor dining patio this Friday and rebuild it five weeks later, thanks to a reprieve from City Hall.
by | Mar 9, 2023 11:26 am | Comments (14)
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Alders Eli Sabin and Carmen Rodriguez on a State St. redesign walking tour last October.
A downtown-adjacent stretch of State Street is one step closer to seeing new life as a place to walk, bike, shop, and live — now that alders have formally accepted a $5.3 million state grant to remake a car-centric Urban Renewal-cleared corridor.
by | Mar 6, 2023 5:37 pm | Comments (20)
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The new normal? Duncan Goodall by his Koffee? outdoor patio.
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A winter fondue meal outside Choupette Crêperie & Cafè.
After maintaining street dining throughout the winter, four local restaurateurs now have five days to dismantle their patios for five weeks or face $250 daily fines.
by | Mar 6, 2023 3:09 pm | Comments (4)
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EMERGE's Richard Watkins on Monday: Young people's voices matter.
Aspiring medical assistants, landscapers, and manufacturers now have a clearer path to career success, thanks to a new city grant designed to skill up New Haven’s workforce.
by | Feb 28, 2023 2:31 pm | Comments (4)
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Caroline Smith and crew at work on Upper State.
Caroline Smith slid a shovel beneath some slush obscuring a State Street sidewalk — and cleared a pathway to keep some of the city’s small businesses open for snow day shoppers.
She was joined by a handful of other volunteers looking to lend some muscle to a slew of stores thrown off by the previous night’s snowstorm.
by | Feb 23, 2023 10:20 am | Comments (10)
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A 2019 rendering of the proposed Miller Street development.
Alders signed off on more tax relief — for fewer below-market-rent apartments — for a developer team planning to build a 56-unit majority-affordable housing complex atop a long-vacant lot in West River.
Continue reading ‘Updated 17-Year Miller St. Tax Break OK'd’
by | Feb 21, 2023 4:40 pm | Comments (18)
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Regular salsa event on the now-closed-to-traffic "Central Patio" linking Whalley and Fountain and bordering the undeveloped former Cape Codder/Delaney's lot.
Westville Village’s empty gateway lot is back up for sale — offering a chance to rethink its future.
by | Feb 17, 2023 10:01 am | Comments (6)
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263 Dixwell Ave.: One of 2 Ocean-owned properties the city plans to sell to Beulah.
The Elicker Administration is one step closer to buying and selling two two-family homes on Dixwell Avenue — so that a nonprofit can maintain the currently megalandlord-held properties as rentals.
Continue reading ‘Megalandlord-City-Nonprofit Housing Deal Advances’
by | Feb 13, 2023 9:30 am | Comments (9)
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OrLando Yarborough and Erik Clemons at WNHH FM.
Once upon a time, New Haveners without college degrees could pursue well-paying careers making rifles at the old Winchester factory.
Today they’ll be able to pursue careers working in labs helping test drugs to cure diseases like cancer, thanks to a new pipeline created to help New Haveners find their way to some of the jobs of the future pouring into the city.
by | Feb 10, 2023 10:04 am | Comments (11)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Factory Tax Break, Redev Plans Advance’
by | Feb 9, 2023 4:02 pm | Comments (45)
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The former Church Street South property, above and below.
Elicker (at bottom left): "Disappointed & frustrated." Northland's Gottesdiener (bottom right): City's version "inaccurate at best, a lie at worst."
Five years after bulldozers demolished the 30-building Church Street South community across from Union Station, the land remains a fenced-off wasteland of prime real estate with no signs of progress on plans to rebuild.
by | Feb 9, 2023 3:05 pm | Comments (21)
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Rendering of a proposed new "Gateway District" on Long Wharf.
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Community members hear a presentation at the Betsy Ross School Parish Hall.
A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive.
An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble.
A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.
Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.
by | Feb 8, 2023 4:11 pm | Comments (27)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Townshend Estate Owners Eye 50 New Houses’
by | Feb 7, 2023 12:33 pm | Comments (10)
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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.
by | Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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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.