by | Feb 25, 2020 9:08 am | Comments (9)
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Development chief Michael Piscitelli testifies at confirmation hearing.
A 20-year city government veteran promised to push for “truly inclusive” deals that extend beyond short-term local construction hires, as lawmakers advanced a request to turn his title from “acting” to permanent city economic development administrator.
Continue reading ‘Piscitelli’s Permanent Posting Progresses’
by | Feb 24, 2020 4:08 pm | Comments (3)
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Alisa Bowens-Mercado (above) at launch of her new beer (below).
Tashawna Peete does not usually drink beer. But as she sat with her wife-to-be, Kim Jenkins, at Te Amo Tequila Bar & Tacos on Temple Street on Saturday, she decided the brand new Rhythm Blue might be her go-to lager.
by | Feb 24, 2020 4:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Chris Pacheco of Seacoast Mushrooms sells a bunch of blue oyster.
The flavors of seven sweet and savory food business ventures were sampled on the edge of Wooster Square Saturday at a Food Business Accelerator Farmers’ Market Showcase.
by | Feb 24, 2020 8:35 am | Comments (8)
A mainstay of the revived Chapel Street business district is moving completely online — and clearing its shelves of jewelry and other gifts with a clearance sale.
by | Feb 24, 2020 8:22 am | Comments (15)
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Rendering of 98 Olive St. plan.
A local developer is looking to turn a former law office building and parking lot in Wooster Square into — you guessed it — more apartments, as part of a project that would put the first dollars into a new citywide affordable housing fund.
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:37 am | Comments (6)
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PARK on Crown should be a familiar sign to any passersby on Crown Street for the last decade. The sign, that is. Whether they know it’s now also the sign for a new bar is another thing entirely.
by | Feb 12, 2020 4:51 pm | Comments (3)
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The proposed new neuroscience center building.
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City economic devevlopmoent chief Mike Piscitelli and city-hired consultant Kevin Hively.
The economic impact of Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new $838 million neuroscience center should extend well beyond the realm of the biosciences — potentially opening up new opportunities in New Haven for clinical care providers and digital marketing specialists and data scientists and laundromat operators.
That’s one of the key conclusions from a city-hired consultant who just finished a deep dive into New Haven’s existing neuroscience market on the cusp of transformation.
by | Feb 12, 2020 12:01 am | Comments (1)
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The former Elks Lodge 25 at 522-528 State St. Below: Jared Keith shows off the new gym’s facade.
A New York City-based architect plans to convert the former Elks Lodge on State Street into a new gym on one side of the building, and a new restaurant on the other.
Continue reading ‘Gym + Restaurant To Replace Former Elks Lodge’
by | Feb 11, 2020 11:51 pm | Comments (18)
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Future home of recycling facility. Below: Jeffrey Laydon explains plan.
A local road construction company plans to build a recycling facility near the Mill River to convert torn-up and discarded pavement into roadway patching material — while creating no new waste in the process.
by | Feb 5, 2020 1:32 pm | Comments (13)
Long-vacant lot at 352 Whalley Ave.
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WEB Chair Nadine Horton (with city development deputy Steve Fontana): “There is a lot of opportunity here.”
Nadine Horton can still remember shopping as a kid at the fruit market and neighborhood deli that used to stand at the southwestern corner of Whalley and Winthrop Avenues.
by | Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm | Comments (0)
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The Lacys, Cathy Graves, Mayor Elicker, and Alder Richard Furlow.
Forty different glazes for chicken wings — ranging from mango habanero to garlic parmesan — are just not enough for fledgling and creative restauranteurs Lachelle and Linwood Lacy.
They have a still-secret 41st sauce coming, combining the best of the previous 40. It is still in the research stage, meaning only family members get to try it.
Glazes and wings galore will also be ready for upcoming Super Bowl weekend.
by | Jan 30, 2020 1:50 pm | Comments (0)
The Naugatuck Valley’s history of industry is written into its cities’ nicknames: The Brass City, The Clock City, The Rubber City.
What happens when those industries go away?
Continue reading ‘Valley Booster Warns Against State Highways’
by | Jan 30, 2020 1:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Demolition wrapping up at future Hilton hotel site on Elm Street.
The city’s building boom is bearing financial fruit, with nearly $7.5 million in permit fees flowing into city coffers so far this fiscal year
That’s 150 percent higher than at this time last year — as New Haven heads toward what the city’s top building official expects will be “our biggest year yet.”
by | Jan 30, 2020 9:00 am | Comments (25)
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Erik Clemons: “This is about us being a part of the social contract.” Below: A preliminary sketch of the redeveloped plaza.
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An ambitious planned $200 million redevelopment of Dixwell Plaza would bring a new performing arts center, banquet hall, grocery store, museum, office complex, daycare center, retail storefronts, and 150-plus apartments and townhouses to the neighborhood’s fraying commercial hub.
The local team behind the project received nothing but praise from longtime community members who heralded developers for striving to keep — and build — inter-generational wealth in the heart of black New Haven.
Full house at Stetson for the reveal.
by | Jan 29, 2020 3:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Rendering of proposed 101 College tower.
A second Winstanley-built tower has appeared on College Street — at least on paper.
by | Jan 29, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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Environmental remediation contractors at 71 Shelton.
Blinky the three-eyed fish was nowhere to be found at the site of a former nuclear manufacturing facility in Newhallville.
The fenced-off demolition area was instead replete with dozens of tightly-sealed intermodal containers filled with uranium-impacted concrete, asbestos, and lead dust — as well as hardhat-wearing remediation contractors working to complete a $10 million federally funded clean-up.
by | Jan 28, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (3)
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Quinoa, brown rice, roasted brussels sprouts, and veggie meatballs were on Mayor Justin Elicker’s agenda Tuesday afternoon, along with a main course of promoting small business in New Haven.
by | Jan 27, 2020 2:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Dixwell Plaza, which ConnCORP plans to redevelop.
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Erik Clemons.
A call to action for community collaboration and development.
by | Jan 22, 2020 8:52 am | Comments (19)
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230-unit complex, expected to open next summer.
LCI’s Carmen Mendez: Please pick up after yourselves.
• Comcast demolition to start within month.
• New owners update management team.
• Neighbors press for local hiring, property upkeep.
by | Jan 10, 2020 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
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Nebyat Shewaye taps kombucha at his new “farm-to-counter” eatery.
Two secret recipes produced this aromatic pan of “fir-fir” beckoning to visitors inside the bright confines of downtown’s new “farm-to-counter” restaurant.
by | Jan 8, 2020 6:05 pm | Comments (23)
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Former St. Thomas’s emerges from shell of demolished bank.
The original church.
As a bank building at Elm and Orange streets meets its maker, an edificial ghost has appeared: a long-forgotten church.
by | Jan 8, 2020 4:10 pm | Comments (4)
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An industrial-use pump manufacturer has purchased Radiall’s former factory buildings on John Murphy Drive in Fair Haven for $3.2 million — with plans eventually to hire enough people to replace many of the New Haven jobs lost there.
by | Jan 8, 2020 8:58 am | Comments (2)
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Whalley Avenue looking west towards Orchard Street.
A long-in-the-works rezoning initiative designed to boost the city’s neglected “commercial corridors” received unanimous aldermanic approval for Whalley Avenue — and was officially dropped, for now, from Dixwell Avenue and Grand Avenue.
by | Jan 7, 2020 11:10 pm | Comments (4)
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Proposed garage at Chapel and Orchard looking south towards George.
Yale New Haven Hospital’s planned new neuroscience center, St. Raphael’s campus expansion, and associated parking garages earned a suite of unanimous aldermanic approvals, paving the way for construction of the nearly $1 billion project to begin later this spring.
by | Jan 6, 2020 4:03 pm | Comments (9)
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The Pirelli Building.
Plans to transform the historic Pirelli Building on Sargent Drive into a hotel have moved forward, as a local developer has purchased the property from IKEA for $1.2 million.