Dawn Hawkins Johnson: 1st cohort alum, now back to help run the 4th session.
Dawn Hawkins Johnson left her corporate healthcare job at the height of the pandemic to start her own consulting company fighting for a more equitable industry.
One of the first stops she made along the way of her entrepreneurial journey was a downtown-based program focused on training new business owners of color. Two years later, she’s now leading that program as it embarks upon its fourth cohort.
Earth movers: State development deputy chief Alexandra Daum, city development chief Mike Piscitelli, Ancora L&G veep Peter Calkins, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, builder Clay Fowler (never saw a Coliseum show, but fave would have been The Boss), Economic Development Corp. CEO Ginny Kozlowski (favorite concert: Billy Joel), Chamber prez Garrett Sheehan.
Ready to rumble: Crew members Rich Vishinsky, foreman Albino Barroqueiro, and Trevor Gill Thursday by their "monster" truck.
The ghosts of metal bands, hockey brawlers, and Bible-thumping Jehovah’s Witnesses were shaken from their graves Thursday as a groundbreaking marked the beginning of construction of a bustling mini-city on the burial grounds of the old New Haven Coliseum.
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Nov 9, 2022 2:07 pm
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A seven-year plan to convert an empty Elm Street bridal shop into seven stories’ worth of new apartments took another step forward after the building’s new owners won a key city approval.
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Nov 8, 2022 9:25 am
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“We rise by lifting others,” reads a phrase from 19th-century writer and orator Robert Ingersoll, which now adorns a colorful mural on a wall on Fair Haven’s Grand Avenue.
As if in literal demonstration of the quotation, on Friday morning, a woman hefted a small child into the air to paint a butterfly on the mural that otherwise would have been just out of reach.
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Nov 3, 2022 6:46 pm
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Ray Pantalena: On track for recreational sales, thanks to Wednesday City Plan Commission vote.
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Kebra Smith-Bolden: On track for cultivator license, thanks to Tuesday Social Equity Council vote.
A medical marijuana pharmacist is set to roll recreational bud and edibles onto Whalley Avenue as soon as December — after getting approved for the city’s first ever adult-use cannabis business special permit.
And another leading local cannabis entrepreneur has won a key vote of support from a state council to build out her own “social equity” cultivation and retail ventures.
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Nov 3, 2022 3:18 pm
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83, 85, and 87 Woolsey (the three houses pictured from right to left): All slated for demolition to make way for a new larger parking lot.
A Fair Haven community health center won permission to knock down three houses and build a larger surface parking lot — as it moves forward with a plan to create an expanded neighborhood-anchoring medical campus.
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Nov 1, 2022 11:11 am
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
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Nov 1, 2022 9:25 am
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John Martin: Soon off to his next wheeled adventure.
After eight years of building up the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, John Martin has purchased his first gas-powered vehicle — and is taking off on a six-month sabbatical via van while the shop he founded changes gears.
Entisar Elamin was chopping parsley Monday for a batch of baba ganoush when a parade of official visitors popped in with their own recipe — for helping other women like her make it in the Connecticut economy.
(Opinion) If the guy in the old Crazy Eddie commercials took a look at how New Haven is taxing — or not taxing — the gold-rush speculators snapping up property, you know what he’d scream.
Rendering of future med-lab building at "Square 10."
Hundreds of new apartments, a retail “laneway,” a parking garage, and a medical lab and office building are one big step closer to coming to a Ninth Square surface parking lot — now that the city has officially conveyed the former Coliseum site to a Norwalk-based developer.
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Oct 27, 2022 1:50 pm
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Tweed airport won permission to build 203 new “temporary” parking spaces in anticipation of heightened holiday travel demand at the current New Haven terminal — and in advance of the planned construction of a new larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has landed a $7.2 million state grant to help boost small businesses run by Black, Hispanic, women and immigrant entrepreneurs.
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Oct 20, 2022 5:32 pm
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97 Whitney Ave.: Daycare center coming soon?
A former private school for gifted students may see second life as a Whitney Avenue daycare center — if the city’s zoning board approves a plan pitched by an Orange-based Hebrew day school.
Congress/Davenport apartment plan, now OK'd by City Plan.
Make way for 194 new apartments on Congress and Davenport Avenues, now that a California-based developer has won a key — and hotly contested — city approval.
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Oct 19, 2022 4:09 pm
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Nemerson: "I don't take it personally."
The Board of Alders put the kibosh on Matthew Nemerson’s potential return to City Hall by rejecting the former economic development administrator’s bid to breathe new life into the city’s redevelopment agency.
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Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm
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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.
One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house.
That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.
Common Grounds co-owner Dena Jara and attorney James Perito with cafe photos at a November 2018 East Rock management team meeting.
A “Common Grounds” cafe duo still plans on opening up a long-delayed new coffee shop at the former East Rock Pharmacy site on Orange Street — even as their growing company takes over three now-shuttered Blue State Coffee locations downtown and in the Hill.
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Oct 17, 2022 10:45 am
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Long Wharf Theatre leaders at Audubon St. fest Saturday.
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Bidding adieu to 222 Sargent stage on Friday.
Audubon Street burst into party mode Saturday as Long Wharf Theatre celebrated its move from a Sargent Drive stage to offices downtown — as well as the beginning of a new itinerant model of presenting works across various locations in Greater New Haven.
David Agosta with Zinn behind K of C museum on walking tour.
As cars rumbled along a milled-but-not-yet-repaved stretch of State Street behind the Knights of Columbus museum, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn urged the dozen downtown neighbors before him to engage in a little “crazy brainstorming.”
What could — what should — this roadway be when it no longer belongs to cars?
