Foodies Get Taste of New CT Flavor
by | Feb 10, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Foodies got a taste for what a new generation of local food entrepreneurs can offer on Wednesday evening at Elm City Market.
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Manufacturer Pitches Training Hub
by | Feb 10, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (2)
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Marcia LaFemina: "I always wanted it to be in Fair Haven."
Marcia LaFemina is looking to transform a vacant Fair Haven industrial building into a community hub where manufacturing trainees can take bilingual classes, sign up for energy assistance, and receive diapers for their kids.
They All Scream For ... Ale?
by | Feb 9, 2022 4:53 pm | Comments (18)
Grewal's design for ice cream shop.
Ice cream might be pure happiness for Elena Grewal — but not completely to some of her East Rock neighbors, if it’s offered up with wine and beer.
That divide emerged Tuesday night at a Zoom-assisted meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals at which Grewal’s request for relief for a new shop was heard.
Grill Goes Cold After Inspector's Visit
by | Feb 9, 2022 3:23 pm | Comments (5)
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Black Corner Store owners Kenia and Michael Massey with temporarily sidelined "Afrotina" fusion chef Ohioma Odihirin.
The word on Edgewood Avenue Wednesday was: The health department was here. Now the grill is cold.
Planet Venus Meets Planet Community
by | Feb 9, 2022 2:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Coming soon to Wallace Street?
An adult “Las Vegas-style” “cabaret” with exotic dancers and late-night night drinking will bring economic revival and safety to a forlorn industrial zone.
So said the people looking to open said strip joint.
To which neighbors responded: In case you haven’t noticed, people live here. People from New Haven, not Las Vegas.
Hamden Bets On Fund Balance
by | Feb 8, 2022 4:14 pm | Comments (2)
Curtis Eatman: Restructure and refinance depend on a whole lot of "ifs."
When a rainy day comes, Hamden may have money to spare — if an evolving proposal to sell $60 million worth of bonds doesn’t backfire.
"Viva" Reborn as "Vivaz"
by | Feb 4, 2022 10:14 am | Comments (4)
Owner Bernadino Lanche with family members who work at the restaurant: Joseph Lanche, Hugo Rivas-Lanche, and Teodora Lanche.
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Chile relleno at Vivaz.
When Bernadino Lanche was a young boy in Hidalgo, Mexico, he began dreaming of opening his own restaurant. Years later, he has fulfilled his dream — and brought authentic Mexican food back to a popular spot on Park Street.
His new restaurant, Vivaz Cantina, has opened at 161 Park St., location of former longtime popular hangout Viva Zapata.
A New Dawn At Collab
by | Feb 2, 2022 11:44 am | Comments (1)
New Collab Executive Director Dawn Leaks.
Collab New Haven has a new executive director with a clear message: Don’t let opportunity pass you by.
She also has a mission: To create more opportunities for those who are systematically denied chances to turn their ideas into realities.
Settlement Cuts Dumper A 90% Break
by | Jan 31, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (4)
82 Crestway: Soon to be "paradise"?
A business owner who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines has reached a court settlement with the town of Hamden — and has an opportunity to restore an industrial property covered in illegally dumped waste back into the home of Paradise Landscaping.
Potrepreneurs Are Ready To Roll
by | Jan 28, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Cannabis crew boning up Wednesday night.
Brandi Marshall: “I’ve got the product. I need the capital.”
Days before Connecticut starts accepting applications for cannabis licenses, 50-plus home-growers, sellers, and consumers of the plant gathered to share business strategies, discuss the history of the war on drugs, smoke joints, order beer, and eat boxes upon boxes of pizza from East Rock’s One 6 Three.
They’re boning up on the rules and preparing to go legit in an emerging industry they’ve already entered. They also vow to keep their grassroots community growing as corporate vultures swoop into the marketplace.
JoJo's Becomes Newest G Cafe
by | Jan 28, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (6)
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Friday's ribbon-cutting at new G Cafe at Park and Chapel.
While cutting the ribbon Friday to his fourth bakery-cafe spot, Andrea Corazzini paid homage to his European roots — with a hot latte.
Strip Club Foes Weigh Sex-Work Respect
by | Jan 28, 2022 9:45 am | Comments (11)
Coming to Mill River?
Mill River residents are weighing how to thwart a “Vegas”-style strip club — without demeaning the sex workers whom the club would employ.
Union Station Goal: Rezoning, Less Parking
by | Jan 26, 2022 9:24 am | Comments (11)
When rezoning for “transit-oriented development” — particularly at spots like Union Station, currently gobbled up by surface parking lots — be aggressive.
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Word On The Street: 10 AM Georgia Hots
by and | Jan 25, 2022 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
Steve Williams: Fixture outside the courthouse.
The word on the street was… hot dogs.
At 10 in the morning.
Lots of hot dogs.
East Rockers Endorse Ice Cream Dream
by | Jan 25, 2022 1:15 pm | Comments (18)
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Grewal in front of the possible future ice cream shop.
When Elena Grewal looks at the vacant storefront at 831 Orange St., she envisions swirling soft-serve, dollops of hot fudge, coffee and wine, and neighbor-to-neighbor conversations.
$220M+ In Harbor-Boosting Fed Funds Celebrated
by | Jan 24, 2022 4:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Looking from Long Wharf towards the industrial port in the Annex: Federal funds to be used to deepen the channel to allow for more, larger ships.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Monday's presser.
Look for more room for bigger ships carrying steel, cement, and oil to New Haven’s industrial waterfront — and less room for climate-change-exacerbated storm surges to inundate the streets and highway on Long Wharf.
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Farm-To-City: Pie-Baking Biz Moving To Town
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:33 pm | Comments (5)
Lyman pies: Soon to be "made in New Haven."
Lyman VP John Lyman.
A Middlefield-based apple orchard company is moving some of its pie-baking business to New Haven, after purchasing three industrial buildings in Wooster Square and Long Wharf for $3 million.
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Doors Open At Town Hall
by | Jan 20, 2022 4:30 pm | Comments (7)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Panayotakis and Chief of Staff Sean Grace at new round table.
Out went the plush purple couch in the mayor’s office. In came a round table with four chairs and a Purell centerpiece.
The General Store Gets An Update
by | Jan 20, 2022 10:08 am | Comments (4)
The general store, circa 2022: Strange Ways' successor.
Pedestrians and people driving along Whalley Avenue may have noticed the storefront that used to house Strange Ways has changed. That’s because the beloved lifestyle store moved from Westville Village to downtown. In its place, owner Alex Dakoulas — who also still operates Strange Ways in its new location — has opened Westville General, selling meats, cheeses, condiments, candy, home goods, and gifts (just for starters).
Hamden Expands Business Incentives, Requires Community Contracting; GOP Questions Wording's Wiggle Room
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (0)
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Erik Johnson: "Put residents and businesses in Hamden first.”
Hamden’s Legislative Council gave final approval to a new ordinance tying business incentives to local hiring .
City Starts To Think About Broadband
by | Jan 14, 2022 9:56 am | Comments (18)
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Fiber internet? Not for 2/3 of New Haven.
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Should the city partner with an existing internet service provider to boost broadband? Or set up its own network and side-step telecom monopolies?
Those questions are at the center of a revived city effort to at least think about how to bring faster and more reliable internet to all of New Haven.
More "Package" Purveyors Allowed Downtown
by | Jan 13, 2022 11:54 am | Comments (6)
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New Crown & High complex: ground-floor retail remains empty.
It’s fine to cluster liquor outlets on Crown Street. On Orange Street? Fuggedaboutit.
That at least was the import of two developments at this week’s zoning board meeting, where a Crown Street developer won permission to try to fill an empty storefront with a high-end package store while Atticus Market withdrew a request to start selling beer in East Rock.
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Hamden Ties Tax Breaks To Local Hiring
by | Jan 13, 2022 9:31 am | Comments (9)
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Erik Johnson: Show us you're doing your best.
Developers looking to build in Hamden with financial breaks from local government may now have to show proof of a plan to help the town back in return — by hiring and contracting locally and equitably.
Yale Quarantine Rules Worry Restaurants
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (28)
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Khalil Alsankary at Chap's: Will be "hard to keep going."
After struggling to survive a Covid-clobbered holiday, owners of downtown restaurants learned they may see little relief when Yalies return to town.
State Sends $2M Grant For Science Park Redev
by | Jan 6, 2022 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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The former Winchester Arms plant at Munson and Mansfield, slated for demolition.
Science Park’s redevelopers landed a $2 million state grant to help clean up and demolish a derelict section of the former Winchester Arms factory — and to advance plans to create hundreds of new apartments and tens of thousands of square feet of office, lab, and retail space.
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