by | Sep 28, 2022 3:43 pm | Comments (3)
QU VP Zemba: "A strong Quinnipiac is a strong Hamden."
Quinnipiac University made its first official pitch of a “master” redevelopment plan to Hamden zoners — and, in turn, filed the town’s first-ever ask for a multi-property rezoning makeover.
by | Sep 21, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (12)
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The lights are off inside Tikkaway's Orange Street storefront.
A beloved Downtown restaurant specializing in healthy, “fast-casual” Indian meals has shuttered its doors.
by | Sep 21, 2022 12:58 pm | Comments (2)
Plan for community campus, including sports fields and arts center.
The possibility of a federally funded community center for Southern Hamden is starting to take shape, as town officials sketch out budgets and begin the process of reaping resident input.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Community Center Pitch Takes Shape’
by | Sep 20, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (25)
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Sports Haven: Place your bets while you can before trucks take over.
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City Plan Director Brown: "Unfortunate" that moratorium won't cover truck project.
A one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now in effect — but will almost certainly not stand in the way of a new truck trailer parking facility proposed for the current Sports Haven off-track-betting site.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Pause OK'd; Truck Lot Squeaks In’
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Edgar Marcial inside his now-shuttered Orange St. restaurant.
A kitchen-wall fire shut down Edgar Marcial’s Tacos Los Gordos restaurant barely a month after it first opened on Orange Street.
Now, the California transplant is working on raising money to rehab his recently renovated culinary home so that he and his staff can soon get back to cooking up and dishing out nopales tacos, esquites, and other Oaxacan fare.
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Neighbors buy fresh produce at Health and Wellness Festival.
Children do park yoga with Full of Joy Yoga.
Yoga. Farm fresh produce. Starter plants for home gardens. Hula hooping. And Bomba.
That was all on the agenda Sunday at the inaugural Gather New Haven Health and Wellness Festival.
Continue reading ‘Gather New Haven Brings Out The Wellness In Inaugural Community Fest’
by | Sep 16, 2022 9:47 am | Comments (13)
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Jade Greene at her Off The Tracks shop.
Fall has arrived early on State Street with Caramel Apple Pie, Skinny Pumpkin Teddy Graham, and Maple Glazed Donut shakes — all of which can now be filed under the category “health food.”
Continue reading ‘"Tea Fairy" Pursues Dream, Fuels Teachers’
by | Sep 15, 2022 5:38 pm | Comments (17)
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Sketch of Pennrose's proposal.
Glendower/Patriquin rendering of proposed Strong School redesign.
Two affordable housing developers are competing to transform the long-vacant former Strong School building into an artists’ community, public gathering space, and housing complex.
Continue reading ‘2 Vie To Rebuild School As Housing, Arts Hub’
by | Sep 14, 2022 12:04 pm | Comments (32)
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Painted street-crossings, above, started the process of restitching the borders of Wooster Square and downtown.
Pedestrians and cyclists will have a protected slice of State Street all to themselves. But what about bus riders?
That new information, and subsequent questions, emerged from city leaders’ first public input session about plans to redesign one of the city’s widest driving corridors, one that connects four neighborhoods and two train stations, to rebuild housing and restore safe pathways in an Urban Renewal-cleared corridor.
by | Sep 12, 2022 1:51 pm | Comments (9)
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Peeling back the onion: A plan for a structural addition to this dome has sparked new questions about what's happening on a trash company's property.
Officials of the “Circle of Life” transfer station on Middletown Avenue showed neighbors plans for a new semi-circlular structure on their site — and heard back questions, claims and complaints about the broader conditions on their property.
by | Sep 8, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (27)
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Mortgage entrepreneur Greg Schwartz (above), New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker (below) at economic summit.
New Haven’s mayor and a New Canaan CEO agreed that Connecticut needs lots more housing — and differed on how to make it happen.
Continue reading ‘Housing "Bullies?" Elicker, Gold Coast Exec Differ’
by | Sep 8, 2022 11:01 am | Comments (7)
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At Wednesday's event, clockwise from top left: Friends Center for Children staffers; ConnCORP CEO Erik Clemons; Skanska builders Robert Daddona and Richard Murphy with contractor Rodney Williams; Amber Delacruz serving up mozzarella sliders courtesy of Orchid Cafe.
Dixwell Plaza's planned new ConnCAT Place redevelopment.
Dixwell Plaza’s planned redevelopment has gained a general contractor, a childcare partner, and a food hall operator — and has lost a too-pricey underground garage — as the local team behind the now-estimated $220 million project moves ahead with its effort to build up the heart of New Haven’s historic Black neighborhood.
by | Sep 7, 2022 5:17 pm | Comments (6)
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Fourth-generation owner Marc D’Angelo cuts centennial ribbon Wednesday.
Libby’s Italian Pastry Shop celebrated 100 years of business grounded in the heart of the city’s Little Italy.
by | Sep 7, 2022 1:11 pm | Comments (13)
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Owners Yaakov Atia and Nadav Adad at Tuesday night's opening.
Yalies, townies, rabbis, and other members of New Haven’s growing Jewish community gathered over wine and appetizers to celebrate the grand opening of Ricotta, New Haven’s first kosher pizza restaurant and bakery.
Continue reading ‘New Spot Adds Kosher Twist To Pizza Scene’
by | Sep 7, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (0)
All economic development is community development, and all community development is economic development.
Continue reading ‘Foundation Chief: Community Development = Economic Development’
by | Sep 5, 2022 4:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Evan Jones outside Plush's soft opening (above). Below: Opening night party.
Skateboarders from New Haven and beyond gathered on Orange Street for the soft opening of the city’s second community skate shop.
by | Sep 2, 2022 3:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Hot off the presses: Burkett-Thompson with Gorilla Lemonade boxes ready for regional distribution.
Brian Burkett-Thompson heard the words “4,800 boxes” and shook his head in wonder at how his homegrown beverage business was about to take off.
Continue reading ‘Gorilla Lemonade Roars Into Mass Production’
by | Sep 1, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (15)
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Properietor Lauren Anderson with regulars Makayla and Janeska.
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Visitors at Wednesday's open house.
Middle-schoolers Janeska and Makayla have found a new neighborhood hangout spot — and a new hobby, reading — inside Edgewood’s Possible Futures.
Continue reading ‘Indy Bookstore Brings New Life To Edgewood’
by | Aug 31, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (10)
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YNHH leaders and city officials break out their shovels.
Yale New Haven Hospital ceremoniously started construction Wednesday on a long-awaited, $838 million neurosciences center in the Dwight neighborhood, celebrating the forthcoming addition as “transformative” for patients with brain-related illnesses.
by | Aug 30, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (4)
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, at Tuesday's announcement on the New Haven Green.
Ten thousand Connecticut families and businesses currently unable to connect to the internet should be browsing at high speeds by 2023 — if a $40 million investment in expanding broadband across the state pans out as politicians are promising.
by | Aug 29, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (2)
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The music poured onto Temple Street all the way from the plaza in the middle of the block, directing and enticing a steady stream of pedestrians and shoppers to the long rows of canopies set up for the Black Wall Street Festival, an afternoon-long event designed to showcase a wide range of Black entrepreneurs.
Thanks to the robust turnout, a live band, and a pervasive sense of cheer, the festival was true to its name, turning Temple Street Plaza into something like bazaar meets block party.
Continue reading ‘Black Wall Street Festival Brings Out The Artrepreneurs’
by | Aug 25, 2022 8:55 am | Comments (0)
There’s a reason for the vibrant colors in Sarahi Zacatelco’s self-portrait. “That’s how I feel now,” Zacatelco said. “I’m a survivor,” she said, and those colors mean “freedom” — freedom from a bad situation she left behind, and freedom to accept the support of others she has found in New Haven. It’s also a celebration of the freedom “to work on myself and to work on my art. I left everything behind. All the depression. All the hard feelings. Everything.” It’s the same impulse that led her to make a painting of a pair of wings. “Now I’m flying,” she said. “Now I’m free.”
Continue reading ‘Art Brings Freedom — And Business — To Blue Orchid’
by | Aug 16, 2022 2:53 pm | Comments (24)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Timeline for proposed airport expansion.
Nearly 11 months after the Board of Alders signed off on a new 43-year lease between the city and Tweed’s airport authority, the Morris Cove airport’s board is set to vote on a parallel agreement that would pave the way for a long-sought major expansion.
Continue reading ‘Tweed Development Deal Teed Up For Final Vote’
by | Aug 12, 2022 3:51 pm | Comments (16)
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Kebra Smith-Bolden: Enough "control" over joint venture?
A leading local weed-preneur has sued the state for denying her company’s bid for a cannabis cultivator license under a program aimed at helping people from communities disproportionately harmed by the War on Drugs.
Continue reading ‘Canna-biz Sues Over "Social Equity" Rejection’
by | Aug 12, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (4)
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NOA on Crown (above), newest venture of Winyu Seetamyae (below).
Winyu “Win” Seetamyae, the chef and owner behind Upper State Street’s September in Bangkok, has opened his second restaurant at 200 Crown St. after managing to stay afloat, and profitable, during the pandemic.