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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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Laura Glesby |
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?
Artspace coordinators Gabriel Sacco, Laurel McLaughlin and Steve Roberts.
A Ninth Square art gallery transformed into a networking arena for local creatives and a political podium for the state’s governor — as Democratic incumbent Gov. Ned Lamont visited Artspace to promise support for Black and brown artists and small business owners.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 10, 2022 8:46 am
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So long, mixed-use building and parking lot; hello, new health center?
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A map of the clinic's current headquarters, planned addition (at the top left), and planned new parking lot.
Fair Haven Community Health Care’s upcoming Grand Avenue expansion came into sharper focus — as a health center representative described plans to knock down an existing corner building that currently houses a pharmacy, a pizzeria, and a handful of apartments, and to construct in its stead a new neighborhood clinic and community space.
Nemerson: “Redevelopment agencies among most powerful tools we have."
Matthew Nemerson took one step closer to returning to City Hall — not to his former role as economic development administrator, but instead as a volunteer member of the city’s Redevelopment Agency Advisory Council.
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Sep 30, 2022 9:15 am
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Ray and Semeghini in front of their new location with faithful friends Chubble and Hazel.
Something new is brewing behind the paper-covered windows of 105 Whitney Ave., and business owners Virginia Semeghini and Eva Ray are hoping you’ll want to come down and be a part of it. Witch Bitch Thrift, the online thrift shopping site that became a cherished Bridgeport storefront has now moved its headquarters to New Haven in the former home of Take 5 Audio. The plan is to continue to foster a community that has its roots in one person’s dream of making a space where she could not only sell thrift clothing and other treasures, but also build a treasured group of supportive friends.
