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Jun 23, 2021 8:17 pm
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Craig Crews at center cuts the ribbon Wednesday surrounded by Chamber of Commerce prez Garrett Sheehan and Mayor Justin Elicker.
By cutting a ribbon to signal the opening of a newly renovated laboratory and office space in Science Park, Dr. Craig Crews added his company to the ongoing quest to turn New Haven into a thriving biotechnology center.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 18, 2021 3:38 pm
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Rohn Lawrence and Jay Rowe light up the stage.
Toad’s owner Brian Phelps (center) with SBA CT Director Marx, Rep. DeLauro, and Sen. Blumenthal.
For the first time in 15 months, musicians took the stage at Toad’s Place — with the promise of more tunes to come, thanks to a federal bailout slowly making its way to shuttered venues across the country.
The planned new NEBCO brewery, coming soon to River Street.
Plans for a new 80,000 square-foot brewery, tap room, and event space for a vacant former-industrial lot on River Street are moving ahead, as the city prepares to welcome “The Beatles of Craft Brewing” to Fair Haven.
Take 1: Developer Carter Winstanley, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, Yale President Peter Salovey, Gov. Ned Lamont, SCSU BioPath student Therese Ziaks.
Take 2: SCSU President Joe Bertolino, Gateway CEO William T. Brown, Salovey, Elicker, Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey, Biolabs President Johannes Fruehauf, Arvinas CEO John G. Houston, Winstanley, SCSU BioPath student Apple Pham, SCSU physics Professor Christine Broadbridge, Ziaks.
History had a chuckle Monday as government and business leaders grabbed shovels near the border of the vanishing Route 34 Connector.
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Jun 7, 2021 1:32 pm
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Alexandra Daum: Raising bar at the zoning board, cashing in on real estate market.
A top state economic development official and local zoning board member is also a city landlord on the move — actively buying, renovating, managing, and selling rental properties in New Haven’s red-hot housing market.
Fair Haven bound: Actor, director and studio head Michael Jai White (above), brewer Rob Leonard (below).
New England Brewing Company, outgrowing its space in Woodbridge, is negotiating to move to Fair Haven and set up production and taproom and event facilities with a scenic view of the Quinnipiac River.
Down River Street, the up-and-coming media production company Jaigantic Studios is also in negotiations to buy city land to set up headquarters.
Thanks to lucky timing, the lumber’s arriving at Tower Lane construction site, where Carlos Rivera (below) was hard at work this week.
The money’s still flowing to fuel New Haven’s building boom — but builders are scrambling to meet soaring lumber prices and find materials disappearing in a backed-up international supply chain.
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Thomas Breen |
May 21, 2021 2:30 pm
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“Parcel B,” where materials and vehicles will be located during construction of 101 College.
Expect to see dirt piles, dump trucks, and a whole lot of hard hats and building materials atop the former Rt. 34 Connector downtown —as the planned two-year construction of a new 10-story, 525,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower is about to begin.
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May 19, 2021 11:34 am
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Xiaona Lu picks up lunch from Healthy Way’s Melissa Chang.
It was a few minutes past 11 on a recent Wednesday on Cedar Street, and Christopher Chialastri was digging into an aluminum container of spicy fried shrimp.
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May 13, 2021 12:11 pm
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The Pervises’ new location at 554 Whalley Avenue.
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Chicken wings, candied yams, and mac and cheese.
Darryl Pervis is back home on Whalley Avenue — and, starting Thursday, once again filling customers’ cravings for juicy BBQ chicken wings, sweet and sticky yams, and Mac and cheese.
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Thomas Breen |
May 12, 2021 1:38 pm
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That big “Alexion” sign at the top of the 100 College St. tower?
It may soon read “AstraZeneca” instead, as the Cambridge-based drugmaker took one big step closer to a $39 billion takeover of the Boston-based biopharmaceutical company — with plans to keep Alexion’s 500 local workers in place. For now.
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May 6, 2021 11:06 am
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Airport Manager Sean Scanlon (center) at Thursday’s airport expansion press conference at Tweed (below).
Tweed New Haven is embarking on a $70 million privately funded expansion, with a new four-gate 74,000 square-foot terminal and daily service from a new airline.
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May 6, 2021 9:14 am
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Be authentic and creative. Don’t be afraid of the word “no.” Redistribute power. “I want people who are watching to write this down,” said Adriane Jefferson, director of cultural affairs for the City of New Haven, in a Wednesday afternoon conversation with Guy Fortt, president of the Stamford chapter of the NAACP, Pamela A. Lewis, president of Connect-Us, a Bridgeport-based youth-development program that covers the arts and business networking, and Anghy Idrovo, co-director of CT For A Dream, a nonprofit that works with undocumented students in public schools around the state.
A local biotech company has committed to occupying 160,000 square feet on three of the 10 floors under construction at a tower planned to rise at 101 College St. as part of the Downtown Crossing project restitching the center city with the Hill.
Tony Falcone’s “Fast Track” mural on Sports Haven outside wall.
A Queens builder has purchased the Sports Haven complex on Long Wharf for $6 million — and the betting money is on a long-term transformation of the oil drum-shaped gambling mecca and its asphalt sea of surface parking.
