by | Nov 14, 2019 8:30 am | Comments (1)
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After sitting vacant for a decade and a half, a notorious eyesore has gotten a makeover, and is now ready to attract a new surge of business activity — and youth — to southern Hamden.
by | Nov 13, 2019 3:39 pm | Comments (5)
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The five-parcel lot, 197 to 213 Davenport, site of future restaurant and music venue.
A gospel group with deep New Haven roots, The Monk Family Singers, will be the first singers to perform at Sandra and Miguel Pittman’s proposed new restaurant on Davenport Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Live Music Approved For Sandra’s Next Iteration’
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:31 pm | Comments (22)
The key to sustaining the New Haven region’s current building boom? Expand Tweed New Haven Airport to make it easier for more people to get in and out of the area with ease.
That’s according to Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce President Garrett Sheehan.
by | Nov 7, 2019 1:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Jorge Perez pushes “supportive banking” Wednesday at Yale Law.
The state’s top bank regulator promised to push financial institutions to pay more attention to the plight of the mentally ill, who are often getting ripped off, no matter where they put their savings.
by | Nov 4, 2019 4:56 pm | Comments (6)
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The latest restaurateurs to try their luck in the cursed concrete canyon below the Temple Street Garage may have a secret weapon: rum-bloated-candy drinks.
by | Nov 4, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (9)
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Preservationist Martson, developer Fereshteh Bekhrad. Above: 81 Elm.
A demolition permit was approved Wednesday to raze to the ground a 1948 art moderne building at 80 Elm St.
Although it stands just 50 yards from the historic New Haven Green, it is not within one of the city’s only three historic districts. It, therefore, had no legal protection against its being torn down to make way for a new hotel.
Also on Wednesday, preservationists met to launch a campaign to pass a citywide preservation ordinance aimed at changing the outcome in future cases.
by | Oct 31, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (8)
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Sandra’s at its current location on Congress Avenue.
Zoning commissioners Wednesday night signed off on the planned expansion in the Hill of a popular soul food restaurant. They granted parking relief for a planned 44-unit apartment complex in Dwight. And they approved a new resident-run cafe in a planned affordable housing complex in West River.
All in 15 minutes.
by | Oct 30, 2019 7:38 am | Comments (9)
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87 Union: Dirt pile today, tax-deferred apartments coming soon.
A revamped version of the city’s tax assessment deferral program won a key aldermanic approval as city officials successfully argued for the economic necessity of subsidizing developers.
by | Oct 25, 2019 1:44 pm | Comments (32)
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At a housing code inspection (above). Anika Singh Lemar (below): “More housing, everywhere.”
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Anika Singh Lemar sees New Haveners rallying against gentrification — and, in her view, possibly preventing affordable housing from getting built in the process.
Continue reading ‘Do Gentrification Foes Spur Gentrification?’
by | Oct 25, 2019 12:36 pm | Comments (11)
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The Crown Street Garage (still vacant) commercial space.
Long Wharf Theatre has officially dropped its plans to build out a new performance venue in a vast, vacant publicly-owned commercial space on Crown Street — leaving the city’s parking authority prepared to put the space up for rent on the open market to try to attract some new business to the heart of downtown.
by | Oct 24, 2019 1:16 pm | Comments (13)
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The Hotel Duncan is open again on Chapel Street — no longer as a 92-room single-room occupancy (SRO), but instead as a renamed upscale, college-themed 72-room boutique establishment preserving some of its historic original designs and fixtures.
by | Oct 23, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (6)
Raven Blake and Tryone Jones bring out a fresh Veggie Lovers’ pie.
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Mayor Toni Harp, Gideon Gebreysus, Paul McCraven, Lauren Zucker cut Petals Market ribbon.
Blossoming. Sprouting, Spreading. Growing. Flourishing.
No one could resist the floral and botanical metaphors Wednesday afternoon as 50 celebrants marked the opening of a new Dixwell eatery that combines fresh pizza (even for breakfast) with job-training and community-development efforts.
by | Oct 22, 2019 3:20 pm | Comments (15)
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Breaking ground for the new parking garage: Lynn Fusco, BOA President Tyisha Walker-Myers, Mayor Toni Harp, Larry Stubbs, Peter Levin, Michael Piscitelli, Jim Marzi. Below: The design of the new garage.
Dozens turned out for the groundbreaking of the “Rt. 34 West” superblock’s latest development — a four-story, 763-space parking garage owned by the Hartford-based LAZ Parking.
by | Oct 17, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (7)
The New Haven Register has joined the quest for readers willing to pay for online news — and added a twist.
Continue reading ‘Register Goes “Inside(r)” To Make News Pay’
by | Oct 17, 2019 10:48 am | Comments (14)
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The designs of various Cambria Hotels around the country.
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HighSide Construction Management’s Doug Miller: No design rendering yet. Check out the Cambria site for examples.
The developers of a planned new six-story, 130-room hotel won a key city sign-off in their bid to build the next large project on the “Route 34 West” superblock.
by | Oct 15, 2019 1:35 pm | Comments (1)
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City economic development deputy Cathy Graves. Below: Health Haven Hub CFO Donna Lecky and Small Business Counselor Gerry Garcia with his daughter Hannah.
City officials and economic development boosters celebrated the kick-off of a new 10-week training and mentorship program designed to keep local college student entrepreneurs rooted in New Haven even after they graduate.
Continue reading ‘“iHaven” Entrepreneurship Program Launched’
by | Oct 15, 2019 8:02 am | Comments (31)
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Zoning chief Jenna Montesano with neighbors, rezoning map.
The latest passionate neighborhood wrangling over the city’s planned rezoning of its three major commercial corridors — Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues — focused on whether to limit new buildings to four stories rather than the proposed seven-story 75-foot height limit.
by | Oct 14, 2019 8:55 am | Comments (26)
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SeeClickFix founder and director Ben Berkowitz.
A Kansas-based “gov tech” business has purchased New Haven’s homegrown, internationally adopted problem-solving company —which only plans to stay, and grow, in the Elm City, according to its local founder and director.
by | Oct 11, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Logs at Paradise Landscaping’s 82-92 Crestway.
A landscaping company with a history of violating zoning laws in New Haven has found itself caught up in a zoning mess again, this time in Hamden.
by | Oct 10, 2019 4:53 pm | Comments (11)
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Ricky Evans with Justin Elicker, Darryl Brackeen, and Chris Murphy Thursday at Ricky D’s Rib Shack.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy swung by Science Park to endorse a new generation of economic development — and political leadership — in a city booming with biotech business talent.
by | Oct 10, 2019 2:27 pm | Comments (5)
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Pssst: O’Brien with the “package.”
GAFAM is following you. It’s tracking your every move. It wants to get inside your brain.
But have no fear. Secret agent Sean O’Brien is on the case.
by | Oct 7, 2019 4:34 pm | Comments (26)
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188-206 and 218-222 Bassett St.
The city has closed on a $900,000 purchase of a long vacant Newhallville office building that it plans to convert into a worker-owned laundry.
by | Oct 7, 2019 12:29 pm | Comments (2)
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Paula Walker (pictured) of Fair Haven Heights recently went out on her own to launch an insurance agency focused on Medicare after working for a brokerage that offered Medicare Plans across the country. She wrote the following article about why.
Why I decided to leave my job to start my own business?
by | Oct 2, 2019 2:19 pm | Comments (9)
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Petrini updates the management team.
There will not be one huge tower but rather two buildings, neither more than eight stories, so as not to overwhelm the residential neighborhood. One will be cantilevered over the current surgery center and the other beside it but set back from the street and buffered with landscaping.
by | Sep 29, 2019 3:24 pm | Comments (12)
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Ghost Parking Lot, circa 1977.
The ghost cars are history. But their ghosts remain.