by | Aug 22, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (47)
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Elm City Market: Moving from 360 State to "Square 10."
(Updated) A downtown grocery store that has anchored a luxury apartment complex at Chapel and State streets for more than a decade will be closing up shop this fall — with plans to move two blocks down the road to a mixed-use development currently on the rise at the former Coliseum site.
by | Aug 22, 2024 11:22 am | Comments (11)
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Just kidding: Arvinas won't be relocating here, after all.
One of New Haven’s biggest biopharma success stories won’t be moving into 160,000 square feet of brand new office and lab space at the 101 College St. biosciences tower after all — and has agreed to pay $41.5 million to nix its lease and stay put in Science Park.
by | Aug 21, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (4)
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On the trail again ...
A walk by the New Haven Bioregional Group followed part of the route through Morris Cove of the proposed Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Trail to the shore. In the process, it revealed a complex history of land use, and the ways that the push and pull of industrial use versus green spaces have shaped — and continue to shape — the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Shoreline Walk Reveals The Gray & The Green’
by | Aug 19, 2024 9:40 am | Comments (7)
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Matthew Boland at Saturday's fest: Self-love "starts with you."
Cerella Griffin, with 4 types of fruit-flavored lemonades.
Adriane Jefferson, with Babz Rawls Ivy: “I have goosebumps seeing what we have been able to create.”
The sky hanging over the New Haven Green may have been hazy Saturday, but to anyone attending the Black Wall Street Festival it was clear that this was the place to be.
Over 200 vendors dotted the lawn and lined up along Temple and Church Streets to offer a stunning variety of products and services — some to help treat your body, mind, soul, and spirit, some to help you look and feel good, and some to simply help you have fun under the summer sun.
Continue reading ‘Business Is Beautiful At Black Wall Street’
by | Aug 9, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
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KP's serving of Ozzy's Apizza.
New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, indeed.
Ozzy’s Apizza, which started in the West Coast kitchen of CT native Chris Wallace and made its way from pop up to mainstay in Los Angeles is now a part of Goatville. Pies with names like The Liotta, The Swanson, and The Bada Bing are already hits on the other side of the U.S. Now co-owners Wallace and Craig Taylor are hoping to become an integral part of their home state’s scene.
by | Aug 6, 2024 11:36 am | Comments (1)
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The former pizzeria, primed for pharmaceutical rebirth.
Grand Apizza has not quite yet been transformed into Grand Apharmacy, but it’s getting close.
by | Jul 26, 2024 4:48 pm | Comments (34)
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Neighbor Radcliffe: "I want my meat in a package."
Your soon-to-be-beheaded dinner inside here?
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”
Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter.
by | Jul 26, 2024 3:42 pm | Comments (9)
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Serena Neal-Sanjurjo: "Change will come" in housing market.
Rosette Village protesters at City Hall announcement.
A former city housing official will spearhead new efforts to convert blighted properties into affordable housing through a quasi-public land bank.
by | Jul 23, 2024 12:02 pm | Comments (3)
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The scene at AdvanceCT on James Street Tuesday morning.
Lamont: We taught Stuttgart how to spell "Connecticut."
Fears of an international trade war might hurt Connecticut in the long run — but it may lead to new jobs in the short term.
So reported Gov. Ned Lamont at a press conference Tuesday at the headquarters of the state-connected economic development nonprofit AdvanceCT on James Street in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Germany Mission Reveals Tariff Fears, Short-Term Opportunities’
by | Jul 22, 2024 5:09 pm | Comments (5)
CitySeed chief Sarah Miller (second from right) leads Sate Sen. Martin Looney, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, city Health Director Maritza Bond, and state agriculture chief Bryan Hurlburt on tour of former factory.
The state’s top agriculture official walked into an empty Fair Haven factory Monday and reached for his wallet.
Well, metaphorically.
Continue reading ‘CitySeed Starts Pitching HQ/Commercial Kitchen Plan’
by | Jul 18, 2024 12:38 pm | Comments (11)
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The former Trelleborg plant at 30 Lenox.
City Plan commissioners approved a plan to convert up to 65,000 square feet of industrial space on Lenox Street into self-storage units — after deciding that that controversially quiet use fit better at a former factory in the Heights than at a former factory in Newhallville.
by | Jul 17, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (6)
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Six Lakes last fall.
Trails for wheelchairs and strollers. A pavilion for events and education programs. Kayaking and fishing.
All these ideas and more emerged from a meeting at Thornton Wilder Hall at Miller Library in Hamden, held by Six Lakes Park Coalition, as the coalition invited the public to submit input on what a future state park in the middle of Hamden might look like, and how it might best serve the community around it.
by | Jul 16, 2024 8:52 pm | Comments (1)
Not that they're praising Democrats: Former Trump acting AG Matthew Whitaker, at left in photo with attendees after antitrust panel.
Milwaukee — Amid another day of Biden-bashing here at the Republican National Convention, a little-noticed breakout session Tuesday afternoon featured discussion of emerging common ground between some MAGA Republicans and liberal Democrats.
Continue reading ‘Shhhh!: GOP Panel Almost Sort Of Agrees With Biden’
by | Jul 15, 2024 8:45 pm | Comments (6)
City development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Whalley leader Allen McCollum, Eddie Eckhaus, Rabbi Andre Malek, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday's ribbon-cutting.
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Eckhaus's trademark super-stuffed felafel.
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach.
I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food.
Like Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, that rabbi appeared at Eckhaus’s Lea’s Felafelhaus to-go storefront Monday for a ribbon-cutting bringing hopes for a business resurrection.
Continue reading ‘Vegan Kosher-Certifying Rabbi Rides To Felafelier’s Rescue’
by | Jul 12, 2024 9:36 am | Comments (18)
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Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ...
... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street districts.
Machinery whirred as employees of Art To Frames on River Street fulfilled custom frame orders, during the final stop on a city Development Commission tour showcasing what a commercial-industrial district near the Mill River currently looks like — and what it some day might be.
Continue reading ‘Industrial District Tour Eyes Mixed-Use Future’
by | Jul 9, 2024 9:10 am | Comments (12)
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At the new Jitter Bus cafe's grand opening.
While patrons celebrated the grand opening of Grand Avenue’s Jitter Bus Coffee, in the back corner of the café stood a framed coffee-stained page torn out of a notebook, tucked on a shelf.
It read: “This letter of correction serves to prove that Darlene A. Miconi sold a 1999 Chevy G30 Express to Daniel Barletta on February 6th 2015 for a sum of $3200.”
by | Jun 27, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (4)
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Ariel Diaz: "I've been in the convenience store business my whole life."
For Ariel Diaz, who recently opened Big Apple Grocery & Deli on Blatchley Avenue, convenience stores are a family affair.
When he was growing up in Brooklyn, his father “had stores all over Manhattan and the Bronx.” His uncles own stores in Connecticut. His own brother has one in New Haven, too.
“You have to be running around” City Hall constantly in order to get anything done, Diaz told a group of city officials and fellow food entrepreneurs about the challenges of opening a business in the Elm City. “It’s very time-consuming and money, too.”
Continue reading ‘Food Biz Owners, Hopefuls Seek Clearer Path’
by | Jun 19, 2024 12:19 pm | Comments (15)
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Jeanette Sykes, at the helm of new neighborhood dev corp.
A group of Newhallville residents has banded together to build affordable, owner-occupied housing — and expand awareness of neighborhood resources — by way of a revived community development corporation.
by | Jun 17, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (9)
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INSA CEO Peter Gallagher: Cannabis seller and consumer. Don't tell mom.
“It’s a very, very capital-intensive business that’s not without risk,” New Haven’s newest legal pot dealer, INSA CEO Peter Gallagher, said about his 500-employee company’s line of work.
There’s the challenge of finding lenders and lawyers and accountants willing to hire out their services in such a hazy market. There’s the prohibition on ferrying legal product across state lines. There’s the ban on billboard and TV advertising. There’s the reliance on cash and debit cards for retail transactions because of credit card companies’ continued aversion to the sector.
And then there’s Section 280E of the federal tax code.
Continue reading ‘Canna-biz CEO: It's Not Easy Selling Green’
by | Jun 13, 2024 3:16 pm | Comments (9)
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Dev chief Piscitelli (right) with developer Winstanley: NHPS part of "ecosystem of growth."
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Laboratory and classroom space in 101 College designed for NHPS students.
Fifteen high school juniors from Hillhouse, Wilbur Cross, and Career have been selected to join cancer researchers and vaccine developers this fall in bringing to life a long-awaited College Street biotech hub.
by | Jun 13, 2024 11:27 am | Comments (9)
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Co-owner Paul Crosby: "The dirty chai is a crowd favorite."
After eight years of slinging coffee on the streets of New Haven, the Jitter Bus has brought their dirty chais and espressos to a newly opened brick-and-mortar store on the northern end of Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘Jitter Bus Coffee Breaks Grounds On Grand’
by | Jun 11, 2024 9:11 am | Comments (4)
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Lake Whitney Dam: Ready to be improved for “the next 160 years.”
The Lake Whitney Dam on the border of New Haven and Hamden has been going strong since 1860, when Eli Whitney and the city built it. But it’s in need of rehabilitation — a major construction project — to prepare it for the climate challenges of the next century and beyond. That can be done while also keeping an eye on the community and environmental concerns of the present.
by | Jun 7, 2024 10:08 am | Comments (9)
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Fepo Cafe storefront at 195 Church St.
Lattes on tap are coming to Church Street — as a new coffee shop plans to fill a long-empty groundfloor commercial space that was vacated by Starbucks four years ago.
Continue reading ‘New Cafe Coming To Ex-Starbucks On Church’
by | May 30, 2024 3:15 pm | Comments (9)
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Jamal Robinson (center) joined by wife Jess Robinson and team (left) and economic development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Mayor Justin Elicker, cultural affairs chief Adriane Jefferson, and Beachworld Senior VP Dan DeStefano (right).
Outdoor salsa nights, craft beers, and live music are coming to a long-empty lot in downtown New Haven, thanks to the efforts of a local innovator who is hoping to showcase Black and Brown brewers.
by | May 30, 2024 11:21 am | Comments (38)
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Weed-focused labor organizers & customers Jose Anaya and Jake Serafini: Canna-biz is "like the new gold rush."
Long Wharf Theatre, now itinerant. INSA Cannabis, now on Sargent.
Jake Serafini and Jose Anaya showed up to the ex-Long Wharf Theatre site on Sargent Drive Thursday morning — not to catch a play by Samuel Beckett or Anna Deavere Smith, but instead to buy an eighth of Scout Breath and some weed gummies on opening day of the city’s newest cannabis dispensary.