After a year of design and modifications, their site plan for the first building in a multi-year project to redeem the former New Haven Coliseum site with a mixed-use “mini-city” came before City Plan Wednesday evening commissioners for a site plan review and approval.
What the warehouses would look like from South Wallace Street.
The now-empty site of a factory by the Mill River that sent products to Home Depot could host warehouses for the delivery side of Home Depot, or another delivery-focused company like Amazon, by the summer of 2021.
The city plans to sell its remaining stakes in Dixwell Plaza for $750,000 to a local redevelopment team looking to convert the 1960s-era shopping complex into 50,000 square feet of new commercial space and 150 new apartments.
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Oct 19, 2020 10:58 am
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Clockwise from top left: Howard K. Hill, Alisa Bowens-Mercado, Deborah Caviness and Ricardo Caliz.
As a second wave of the pandemic approaches and federal aid from this spring dries up, local Black and Hispanic small business owners turned to one of Connecticut’s U.S. senators with stories of struggle and resilience — and a plea for another round of government support.
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Oct 13, 2020 10:27 am
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Raffael DiLauro: Half a century later, still finding the joy.
Group W Bench, the venerable Chapel Street head shop, art gallery, and psychedelic boutique that has operated continually in New Haven for 53 years, is in negotiations to be sold.
It’s not because of Covid-19. It’s not because the rent is too high. Health complications are part of the equation, but owner Raffael DiLauro has been contemplating the move for a long time.
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Oct 9, 2020 3:52 pm
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Katalina Riegelmann is looking to whip the flavors of New Haven into a tasty cupcake to bring light and airy fun to locals amidst the continuing difficulties of Covid.
Claire Criscuolo and Richard Blumenthal Friday outside of Claire’s.
Two downtown businesses that have grown accustomed to serving meals to go spent a few minutes Friday serving stories to go that hopefully will reach Mitch McConnell and help businesses like them stay afloat.
Site of $50M hotel. Below: Developers, bankers prepare to toss dirt.
Bruce Redman Becker broke ground Wednesday on a roughly $50 million bet: That a new 165-room hotel at the iconic and long-vacant Pirelli Building will be able to attract lodgers, restaurant goers, and business visitors — even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the hospitality industry.
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Sep 30, 2020 10:04 am
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Construction work on the new Q House.
New Haven’s minority small-contractor program helped Booker Washington launch his business. But he could have used help navigating the program — help participants in a virtual “town hall” suggested giving a new generation of Black, brown, and female entrepreneurs.
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Sep 25, 2020 12:09 pm
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A backhoe at Paradise Landscaping in September.
The Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission spent nearly three hours heaping a pile of ire almost as deep as the rocks and dirt at 82 – 92 Crestway on Rus Boyarsky and his illegal landscaping operation.
Then it stalled his only path forward with the town for another month.
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Sep 23, 2020 10:57 am
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Havenly Treats Head Chef Nieda Abbas packs up boxes of grape leaves.
The staff wrapped the grape leaves carefully, filled them with just the right amount of tomato sauce and rice. The finished product — an Iraqi appetizer — was then available for purchase for $4.99.
It also served as a way for refugees to train for gainful employment.
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Sep 21, 2020 12:11 pm
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An illegally stored truck at the Paradise lot.
Hamden officials are set to decide this week whether a politically connected landscaper gets a second chance in town after repeatedly violating zoning laws and evading taxes — or whether time’s up and it must cough up $270,000 (and counting) in fines.
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Sep 17, 2020 4:10 pm
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Norm Needleman’s secret to holding positions in local and state government at the same time is being a workaholic.
Needleman spoke of his roles as a state senator and the first selectman of the Town of Essex on the “Municipal Voice,” a co-production between the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHHFM.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:51 am
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36 River St.
A Fair Haven-based construction company looking to expand its local business spent $1.375 million buying two River Street industrial buildings that used to house the Seaboard Oil Company, in the city’s latest property transactions.
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Sep 15, 2020 5:05 pm
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Logan and Cabrera on the campaign trail.
George Logan and Jorge Cabrera agree about one thing: Families in Connecticut’s 17th State Senate District struggle with the costs of living.
But when it comes to what to do about it, one promotes paid family medical leave and a $15 minimum wage. The other argues those policies choke businesses, and tax dollars, out of the state.
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Sep 14, 2020 9:39 am
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The planned new Cambria hotel at 20 Dwight St.
A Maryland-based hotel chain plans to break ground this November on a 130-room upscale hotel atop a surface parking lot on Dwight Street — ushering in the final development currently slated for the “Route 34 West” superblock.
Planned 200-unit apartment building for plan’s first phase.
Should a new two-bedroom apartment that costs $2,030 a month really be called “affordable”? What about a new studio apartment that costs $750 a month, and is subsidized by public low-income housing dollars?
And is any type of reduced-rent living better than the surface parking lot that currently swallows four acres of the Ninth Square?
Mayor Elicker and state transit chief Giulietti sign “letter of intent.”
Union Station will begin its second century with a bus hub in the works, new stores replacing planned new parking spaces, and the city in control of operations for 55 years.
State and local leaders — whose governments had been fighting over control and design of the station for decades — announced a proposed agreement to that effect Thursday afternoon at an event marking the historic train station’s 100th anniversary.
After just three months of advocacy, Wes Fortier can finally start looking for a place in his hometown to open his tattoo studio, a longtime dream that until Tuesday was not possible because of old zoning rules.
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Sep 8, 2020 3:24 pm
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Orange St. construction site today … and next year (below).
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City planner Donna Hall looked west towards a dug-up intersection, rumbling construction vehicles, a surface parking lot, and a mini-highway separating the Hill and Downtown — and described a new pedestrian-safe connector that is now less than a year away from completion.
