by | Jul 18, 2019 8:13 am | Comments (11)
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Developers and their attorneys on Wednesday night: Adam Haston; Carolyn Kone; Jim Segaloff; Michael Massimino.
New Haven’s market-rate apartment boom kept chugging Wednesday night as seven different developers looking to build over 200 new apartments won key city sign-offs
by | Jul 17, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (7)
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Paul Hammer offers his pitch.
Paul Hammer has stayed in hostels across the globe, from Greece to Philadelphia to Mexico. He now hopes to open one himself, a bit closer to home in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Hostel Pitched to Wooster Square Neighbors’
by | Jul 12, 2019 5:59 pm | Comments (13)
New Haveners will finally be able to drink beer and throw axes at wooden targets thanks to a new business slated for Chapel Street.
by | Jul 11, 2019 3:48 pm | Comments (20)
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Developer Fowler at City Hall; Coliseum lot (below).
It’s official: LiveWorkLearnPlay is gone. Spinnaker is in. And the long-delayed plan to build a new urbanist mini-city on the grave of the New Haven Coliseum has new life.
by | Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (0)
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
by | Jun 28, 2019 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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The Family Dollar at 1168-1186 Whalley Ave.
A Windsor-based development company sold the Family Dollar site on Upper Whalley Avenue to a group of California investors for $1.8 million, in one of the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Jun 26, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (7)
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Quinn presents to the East Rock CMT.
Amid the usual updates about government and crime, neighbors heard a different kind of presentation at the latest East Rock Community Management Team meeting: a sales pitch, for fiber-optic internet service.
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (0)
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Holberton School New Haven Director Nadine Krause.
A local outpost of a Silicon Valley-founded coding school celebrated its official ribbon-cutting in Fair Haven, and is already two cohorts in to its tuition-free training of the state’s next generation of computer scientists.
Continue reading ‘DISTRICT’s Coding School Ribbon Cut; Data Academy Coming Next’
by | Jun 24, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (6)
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New J Press HQ (red brick building with blue awning).
A local high-end men’s clothier is moving back to its original York Street address with a planned new four-story building adjacent to Yale’s campus.
by | Jun 24, 2019 12:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Owner Julie Robbins with professionals and clients at the Well for Women.
When Susan Francis moved back to Connecticut from Pennsylvania, her husband bought her a spa package.
“Wow,” Francis remarked. “I wish I could work somewhere like that!”
“Well, why can’t you?” her husband asked.
by | Jun 21, 2019 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Haven is awarded top prize Thursday evening.
Ben Pugh’s fiancée was making him breakfast, when a kitchen knife sliced through her pinky.
Panicked, they fumbled through insurance cards while googling urgent care facilities. Most information about cost, quality, even hours and location were inaccurate and difficult to find.
“I don’t care about the insurance. Just get me to an emergency room!” Pugh’s fiancée cried out after 10 minutes.
Continue reading ‘Health “Instagram” Snags St(h)ealth Prize’
by | Jun 20, 2019 4:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Marty Wright had company when he made his thrice-weekly stop Thursday at Island Spice Caribbean on Winthrop Avenue off Whaley: the mayor and an entourage showed up to officially celebrate the restaurant’s city-aided expansion
by | Jun 19, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Burcu, Barbarossa, 3, and Volkan Gokkiyas, Mayor Toni Harp, and Alders Hacibey Catalbasoglu and Richard Furlow.
Like his father before him, Volkan Gokkiyas named his newest restaurant, Barbarossa Pizza & Kebabs, after his son.
by | Jun 17, 2019 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
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Customer Shelton Butler and Jahesh Maher.
When Jayesh Maher opens a new liquor store on State Street, the variety of wines and IPAs won’t be all that helps it stand out among 20-odd competitors in Hamden. Judging based on how he runs his other business now, Maher himself will be a part of the draw.
by | Jun 11, 2019 10:29 pm | Comments (5)
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Paw Haven’s Kevin Rocco and John McFadyen (right) with local attorney Caleb Hamel.
Doggy daycare is coming to State Street in the form of a new pet boarding facility to be located on the East Rock-Fair Haven-Cedar Hill border.
by | Jun 6, 2019 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
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The State House crowd.
Marina Marmolejo and Yusuf Ransome have a pitch for how to help end youth homelessness — with the their new app, called DreamKit.
Continue reading ‘Start-Ups Pitch Wearable Art, Lactation Rooms’
by | Jun 5, 2019 2:44 pm | Comments (1)
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Ex-Alder Foskey-Hill displays her new “BDH” frames.
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“Ashley.”
Sir Elton John, take note: You’ve got glasses competition.
by | May 27, 2019 12:25 pm | Comments (28)
Clockwise from top left: Blake; Novella; Hilton, Tower Lane plans.
Pedro Soto sees big boxes rising around town — and isn’t offended.
by | May 22, 2019 9:42 pm | Comments (10)
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Site of a future employee-owned laundry.
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Neal-Sanjurjo.
Alders have sped up approval of plans for transforming a former welfare office building into a worker-owned laundry in Newhallville.
by | May 21, 2019 12:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz have found a pitch to make to businesses in low-tax states: come relocate to Connecticut, where we are protecting abortion rights.
by | May 20, 2019 12:12 pm | Comments (15)
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Joseph Villano addresses City Plan commissioners.
The owner of a local sign-making company does not want a proposed “Las Vegas-style” strip club to become his neighbor. And he stopped by the City Plan Commission to say so.
Continue reading ‘Vegas-Stye Strip Club Proposal Has An Opponent’
by | May 16, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (34)
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Rendering of Paul Denz’s development at Orange and Chapel.
Attorney Carolyn Kone details Randy Salvatore’s Hill plan.
Two developers got the green light to move forward on projects that will transform two blocks in and near Downtown and bring 269 more apartments to the city.
by | May 15, 2019 8:06 am | Comments (13)
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Peter Forchetti pitching plan Tuesday night: Planet Venus will bring a little Las Vegas to the Elm City. Below: Vegas strip club.
The owner of a soon-to-close Mill River strip club is looking to open a “Las Vegas-style” entertainment complex just around the corner that will include a restaurant, a speakeasy-themed bar, and a live performance venue for comedians, magicians, and dancing topless women.
Continue reading ‘Vegas-Style Strip Club Pitched For Mill River’
by | May 15, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (2)
The Town Tart
Vanilla pear bourbon maple pie.
Something round is coming to the old Galasso’s Clock and Watch Shop space at 1660 Whitney Ave., and it doesn’t tell the time — it tells you there’s no limit to what a creative mind can do with pie.
by | May 13, 2019 8:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and lawyer Anthony DiCrosta with Clock Shop Lofts developer Josh Blevins and lawyer Jay Lawlor.
A Mill River strip club owner has reached a deal with a Portland-based developer to pay up to $40,000 in back rent, end its eviction appeal, and vacate its derelict former clock factory digs by May 20 in order to allow for the building’s conversion into 130 affordable apartments and artist lofts.