by | May 12, 2020 5:26 pm | Comments (25)
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Myers at her salon Tuesday: “I’m not going to open” on 20th.
Samantha Myers can’t understand why the governor thinks she can safely reopen her popular hair salon next week.
Continue reading ‘Despite Guv’s OK, Stylist Fears Reopening’
by | May 11, 2020 5:27 pm | Comments (19)
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A barbershop/hair salon layout compliant with state’s Phase 1 reopening guidelines.
The city is boosting its business outreach and revamping its restaurant and hair salon licensing processes in the run-up to the first phase of the state’s “reopening” on May 20.
by | May 11, 2020 9:43 am | Comments (6)
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Havenly Treats’ Passoni and Nieda outside Sweet Mary’s, where they plan to start serving free food this week.
When Caterina Passoni and Nieda Abbas heard that downtown bakery Sweet Mary’s was temporarily suspending business during the Covid-19 pandemic, they saw an opportunity to support two bakeries at once.
by | May 6, 2020 3:10 pm | Comments (2)
Pedro Soto appearing via Zoom on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Pedro Soto made it through a rough bout of Covid-19 — and now is helping guide Connecticut’s economy to do the same.
by | May 5, 2020 12:00 pm | Comments (4)
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The proposed new lab and office tower at 101 College.
The City Plan department has proposed updating the city’s zoning laws to allow for larger developments in exchange for more environmentally friendly construction standards and the creation of more publicly usable open space.
The proposed law change would apply only to the mixed-use central business district, which covers a narrow stretch of the former Rt. 34 Corridor that includes the site of the planned new bioscience lab and office tower at 101 College St.
Continue reading ‘Eco-Friendly Building Perks Pitched For Biotech District’
by | May 4, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (2)
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You used to be able to get gas, help from an auto mechanic, and maybe a bag of chips at the Citgo station just north of Whitneyville at the corner of Whitney Avenue and Mather Street.
The auto mechanics are now gone. But the gas is still there, as is the bag of chips, and, soon enough, probably milk, eggs, and a sandwich to boot.
Continue reading ‘Car Bays-To-Convenience Store Conversion OK’d’
by | May 1, 2020 3:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Steady stream of customers at Sandra’s Next Generation.
Miguel and Sandra Pittman have figured out how to keep their popular soul food restaurant hopping during the pandemic — and picked up some ideas for how others, too, can adapt when the state gradually reopens.
by | Apr 29, 2020 5:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Leslie Asanga was on a mission as he popped out of a rented Mitsubishi Wednesday — to help seniors and other vulnerable people get their medicine without risk of contracting Covid-19.
by | Apr 28, 2020 12:35 pm | Comments (10)
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New Haven Bank CEO Maureen Frank: Filling in gaps.
New Haven’s U.S. Congresswoman and the chief of the city’s community bank Tuesday promised to help small businesses get their fair share in the newest round of federal dollars intended to keep the economy afloat amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Apr 27, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (2)
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Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea at Fashionista.
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Fash-made masks.
While Covid-19 restrictions have inspired many to become more resourceful for the first time in their lives, Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea are continuing to practice what they have preached for 15 years through their partnership in Fashionista Vintage and Variety: reuse, repurpose, recycle.
by | Apr 24, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (16)
Williams, Carter and Pittman Friday on “Dateline.”
With $60 billion in Covid-19 relief headed to cities to boost hard-to-reach small businesses, Miguel Pittman, Rodney Williams, and Jayuan Carter stand ready to help New Haven get it right this time.
Continue reading ‘They’re Ready To Serve To Prevent Stimulus Repeat’
by | Apr 24, 2020 10:05 am | Comments (2)
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College Street Music Hall on its opening night in 2015.
College Street Music Hall and Space Ballroom, as well as Cafe Nine, are among more than 800 music venues and promoters across the country asking Congressional leadership for aid in getting through the shutdowns engendered by the Covid-19 outbreak.
by | Apr 23, 2020 4:30 pm | Comments (1)
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The anti-violence group Ice The Beef spreads the message in city neighborhoods.
New Haven will work to help ensure the latest round of pandemic relief gets to the small businesses that need it most.
Continue reading ‘Covid-19 Updates: Small Biz Help Vowed; Clinical Trial On Tap’
by | Apr 23, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Chiekh Idrissou helping out mom at Motherland.
Watching his mother operate a grocery store in a pandemic, budding entreprenuer Chiekh Idrissou has learned that the best businesses fit the term “essential.”
by | Apr 22, 2020 12:39 pm | Comments (1)
McCrory, Hawkins, & Hill on “Dateline New Haven.”
Doug McCrory watched government money wash ashore to help businesses survive — and mostly flow away from minority-owned businesses in Connecticut’s cities.
So he, Howard K. Hill and Kim Hawkins decided to start a new stream of emergency dollars. They know more upstream swimming will be needed.
Continue reading ‘Black-Business Boosters Seek Covid-19 Stimulus $’
by | Apr 21, 2020 10:45 am | Comments (5)
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The proposed new lab and office tower at 101 College.
A planned new bioscience lab and office tower to be built at 101 College St. will be between 350,000 and 550,000 square feet large, cost the developer roughly $100 million to construct, create upwards of 1,000 new permanent jobs, and include a privately-owned public plaza and a maximum of 175 on-site parking spaces.
Continue reading ‘Details Fleshed Out For Planned 101 College Bio-Tower’
by | Apr 20, 2020 10:21 am | Comments (0)
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Eric Vikmanis delivers.
Pete Mould, co-owner of The Cellar on Treadwell in Hamden, was seeing the crowds at his bar and concert venue grow steadily — until the Covid-19 outbreak.
Since the government-mandated closings and alterations of businesses in Connecticut, Mould and his partners Shari and Eric Vikmanis have found a way to keep their patrons coming back for more, albeit at a distance, with The Cellar Presents: Dinner and a Show. This Friday night event pairs curbside pickup of the best of the club’s bar food and drink with live streamed shows on Facebook by bands that have performed or were to have performed at the venue.
Continue reading ‘The Cellar Does Distance Dinner And A Show’
by | Apr 17, 2020 6:12 pm | Comments (24)
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Pho Ketkeo server Maylene Malichanh looks out to where she would normally park her car.
A bat-wielding vandal has the owner of a Southeast Asian restaurant downtown wondering whether to close up shop during the Covid-19 panic.
by | Apr 16, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (6)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building. Below: The proposed expanded St. Raphael’s campus development.
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Wednesday night’s virtual City Plan Commission meeting.
(Updated) The City Plan Commission unanimously signed off on Yale New Haven Hospital’s plans to build a new neuroscience medical research and treatment center on an expanded St. Raphael’s hospital campus, that will have a total of nearly 2,500 on-site parking spaces by the time construction is complete.
When that might be? Well, no one knows for sure, as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown out the window the hospital’s previous construction timeline.
Continue reading ‘Neuro Plan Approved; Construction Delayed’
by | Apr 13, 2020 3:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Line of customers outside Ferraro’s last week.
One of the main east side outposts for groceries amid the Covid-19 pandemic will close its doors to in-store shopping until Saturday white it undergoes a deep clean.
Continue reading ‘Ferraro’s Switches To Delivery, Curbside For 5 Days’
by | Apr 13, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (1)
Struggling to stay in business during a pandemic, Jessica Hazan may have found a way to strengthen her business for the long run.
Continue reading ‘Soup-er Girl Adapts To Pandemic Challenge’
by | Apr 10, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (7)
State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano on “Dateline New Haven.”
Republican State Senate leader Len Fasano hopes to accomplish a major goal before retiring this year — helping the economy recover from Covid-19 — by working with, not against, his Democratic colleagues.
by | Apr 8, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
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Wednesday morning’s Development Commission meeting.
Sarahi Jordan Vega has seen firsthand just how inundated banks are by small businesses desperate to receive federal assistance during the Covid-19 public health and economic crises.
The Connecticut-based bank where she works as a vice president received 400 applications within minutes of launching its online application form Monday morning for the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). By the end of the day, she expects that number to top 1,000.
Continue reading ‘Local Banker: PPP An “Overwhelming Undertaking”’
by | Apr 7, 2020 2:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Business closure signs on Chapel Street.
KeyBank and Webster Bank have submitted tens of thousands of applications for billions of dollars of support for small businesses desperate to tap into newly available federal funds designed to discourage layoffs amidst the coronavirus public health and economic crises.
When those dollars will actually show up in business owners’ bank accounts? Well, that depends on how quickly federal government and private bank bureaucracies can churn through the applications.
by | Apr 6, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Construction continues at 87 Union St. and at the intersection of Lafayette and Congress Ave. (below).
Even as much of the city’s economy has ground to a halt amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, construction workers are still donning their hardhats every morning and heading out to New Haven’s many construction sites — which busy city developers are furnishing with extra hand sanitizer, social distancing mandates, and more frequent porta potty cleanings.