Construction workers Raul Roldom (above) and Yisrael Mantar (below) ready retail space for fitness center inside new Audubon complex.
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Builder Fowler cuts ribbon on already-leased Phase 2 of The Audubon.
A day after breaking ground in a Dixwell parking lot on new apartments for low-income renters, officials gathered on an Audubon Street lot Wednesday afternoon to break ground on 66 luxury apartments — while cutting the ribbon on 135 fast-filling-up new ones.
In the officials’ telling, those two events are linked: part of a continued construction boom that’s growing a livable city while helping more people to afford to live here.
Rose-Wilen and Piscitelli on Tuesday: "Long Wharf is the city's neighborhood."
The city's vision for a denser, mixed-use, redeveloped Long Wharf.
A proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf is now one vote away from adoption — after alders and city planners made clear that certain projects, like Fusco’s planned new 500 waterfront apartments, would not be affected by the land-use pause.
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison at Monday's meeting.
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Cannabis zoning map proposal from April; legal sales districts shaded in purple. Thanks to Monday's vote, the port district in the Annex is no longer of that purple, legal cannabis zone, and parts of Long Wharf are.
Cannabis dispensaries can now legally set up up shop in certain business and industrial districts in town — including on Long Wharf — thanks to a new set of zoning regulations approved by the Board of Alders.
Another bond rating agency has expressed optimism for Hamden’s financial future — and provided some tips on how to stay on that upward path moving forward.
Ava Boris, Mary Sarah Olson, Sofia Trotta, Adrianna Perugini, and State Sen. Christine Cohen
Adrianna Perugini came to Biohaven Pharmaceuticals as an intern to see if she was interested in pursuing biotech. Now she is a full-time employee working in downtown New Haven.
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Audrey Tyson, Alder Sarah Miller, and Gov. Lamont talk education at Brazi's during one of the governor's New Haven stops Wednesday.
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Lamont in radio studio with hosts Jose Candelario and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, and campaign Deputy Political Diretor Gabriela Koc.
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Lamont with Erik Clemons at ConnCORP: Talk to Looney.
Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
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Jul 27, 2022 4:00 pm
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LeaMOND Suggs on Chapel Street: making New Haven smell good again.
Two decades into running one of downtown’s longer-running commercial enterprises, LeaMOND Suggs was hooking up an old friend with a new olfactory sensation.
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker, Sonia Cruz, and Mike Piscitelli at Monday's event.
As nations dither and the planet bakes, New Haven is getting ahead of the curve on preparing contractors in green construction and environmentally responsive design.
Daniels at work inside his new storefront business.
Custom Batman sneakers .
First, Dandre Daniels takes the laces out. He soaks them in a solution and then gets to work on the sneakers: brushing excess dirt off, spraying and scrubbing, picking all debris and rocks out from the crevices, and then, the magic moment: re-icing.
A decades-old eyesore may be reborn as the new eastern gateway to Westville, according to promoters of a a planned 245-apartment complex and public West River walkway that won City Plan Commission approval Wednesday night.
Ex-middle school, site of planned "art district"-community center.
Bookshelves, diapers, Covid-19 tests, ellipticals, chicken dinners, alternative education classrooms and paint palettes could all be available to all Hamden residents at a one-stop, no-charge shop — if a plan to build a brand new, Dixwell Q House-style community center in Southern Hamden moves forward.
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Jul 17, 2022 10:41 am
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Leli and Darcus Henry with daughter Leila at their new restaurant.
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Plaintain cups with pork: a La Isla specialty.
Leli and Darcus Henry spent their Covid-19 quarantine wishing for a Hamden-based restaurant that served authentic, home-cooked Puerto Rican food. When they didn’t find one, they opened their own.
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Planning and Zoning Commission Chair Brack Poitier and Town Planner Eugene Livshits: Banking on planned development districts (PDDs).
Hamden storefronts, offices and housing may look a little funkier and taxpayer bills a little lower down the road — if a newly passed policy that eases municipal zoning restrictions pans out as planned.
Now that she has cornered the bubble tea market on Whitney Avenue, business owner May Lin has moved on to the skincare-to-footwear variety market on Chapel.
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Jul 11, 2022 12:25 pm
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Julie Smith: "Fingers crossed" on open-air concerts resuming.
A new executive has taken over at Best Video — just in time to work with her former colleagues in Hamden city government to enable one of the town’s cultural gems to resume popular outdoor concerts.
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Jul 8, 2022 9:14 am
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After a countdown from three, Kevin Mackenzie took a bottle of champagne — and smashed it against the side of The Cannon, the new combination sports pub-plant-based eatery on Dwight Street.
“We thought,” Mackenzie said, “this was a little more our style.”
Fashion designer Monica Lee at Wednesday evening's graduation.
New Haven’s nine newest homegrown entrepreneurs are hitting the market with ideas ranging from a “smart potty” to tools to help other entrepreneurs hit the market as well.
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Jul 4, 2022 9:23 am
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Tisha Hudson mixing her cream cheese frosting.
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Behold the Edible Couture strawberry shortcake cheesecake cupcake.
The strawberry crumble festive with summer. The frolicking dollop of cream cheese frosting. The luscious strawberry slice on top. It’s positively gleeful.
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City rendering of a new vision for Long Wharf.
City Plan Commissioners unanimously advanced a proposed one-year building moratorium on Long Wharf, as one developer accelerated a truck maintenance facility application before the deadline.
