by | May 13, 2019 1:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Oak Haven Chef Kevin Wolcott inside the new mobile kitchen.
The farm-to-table dining experience Oak Haven Table & Bar brought to Upper State Street six years ago will be pulling up to farms, festivals, and fairs this summer.
by | May 10, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (5)
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Ruiz pitches at Westville/West Hills.
The app in real time.
Finding out information about your local political representatives could get a lot easier thanks to a new phone app created by two homegrown developers.
by | May 3, 2019 1:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Bruce Seymour; movie poster printed through his hot app (below).
After designing 500 apps, Bruce Seymour finally struck gold: He built one that rose to the top of the Apple and Google Play charts.
Now the New Haven app developer can proudly say that millions of photos that people nationwide have sent from their smart phones to be printed at CVS and Walmart and Walgreens have gone through an app that was coded primarily in the Elm City.
by | May 3, 2019 7:21 am | Comments (70)
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Inside the new Shiru Cafe on College Street.
New Haven’s newest cafe refused to serve me tea or refugee-made baklava. It refuses to serve the high school kids across the street, or tens of thousands of other people who live in New Haven. But it did try to sell me on its new business model for running a college-town coffee shop fueled by customers’ data.
by | May 2, 2019 2:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Thelusma and George.
Two years ago New Haven-based entrepreneur Porsha Thelusma was unboxing shipments at a local boutique. Before her soft opening, she sat regally, flanked by two carefully curated racks of vintage clothing in her own store, the WOW. She was dressed in the camo fatigues of a guerrilla — and in some ways, she is one.
by | May 2, 2019 10:25 am | Comments (2)
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Dubuque, who fell in love with edible cookie dough in Texas.
Dan Dubuque is used to the curious look of disbelief on people’s faces when they walk into his new State Street shop and learn that unlike at their mom’s kitchen table, they can eat the cookie dough.
by | May 1, 2019 1:34 pm | Comments (5)
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Cafe Tacuba at College Street in September.
College Street Music Hall contributed over $16 million to the city’s economy in 2018, and created 280 jobs, according to a report commissioned by the New Haven Center for Performing Arts, the nonprofit that operates the venue.
by | Apr 30, 2019 2:43 pm | Comments (1)
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Heather Taylor celebrates completing small business academy.
Heather Taylor’s nonprofit sober house was already underway when she decided to take an eight-week program at the city’s Small Business Resource Center to help her learn even more about running a business.
Now she has graduated from the Fit For Business program, ready to join the city’s newest job creators.
by | Apr 30, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (18)
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Duncan’s Carolyn Kone, city’s Roderick Williams in court Monday.
Some details of a developer’s plans for how to rebuild a landmark New Haven hotel will be decided in Hartford, not New Haven.
by | Apr 29, 2019 7:06 am | Comments (26)
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At work on Audubon Square, downtown.
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LCI chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and deputy Rafael Ramos testify.
Don’t forget neighborhoods.
Alders issued that plea at a public hearing to the city’s economic development team as they pushed for a boom-era strategy for attracting new construction and jobs beyond Downtown.
At the same hearing, a city official made the first public pitch for a plan she said would do just that for Newhallville.
by | Apr 24, 2019 1:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Mubarakah Ibrahim and new city Food Policy Director Latha Swamy at City Hall Monday.
A bean pie baker and other local micro-food businesses have some new rules that could help them grow their businesses.
by | Apr 17, 2019 2:09 pm | Comments (2)
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U-Haul was able to put its self-storage facility in the old C. Cowles Company building on Water Street as of right.
Alders made it harder for self-storage facilities to spring up in the city but a little easier for cat cafés.
Continue reading ‘Self-Storage Gets More Scrutiny; “Cat Cafe” Defined’
by | Apr 16, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (6)
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Colon being escorted into the aldermanic chambers Monday night.
New Haven is a majority-minority city where being a person of color can make finding a job that pays a living wage elusive, and an affordable safe place to live non-existent.
But the city is making strides toward changing that, even if that takes time.
by | Apr 15, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (3)
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Rendering of 201 Munson project; 201 Munson today (below).
A 13-acre lot at the border of Dixwell and Newhallville should soon start transforming from a massive mound of dirt into a 400-unit apartment complex, now that the developer has a new set of co-owners for the stalled project.
by | Apr 12, 2019 10:12 am | Comments (5)
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Bishop’s Gate Tavern owner Wilson Reyes makes his pitch at the BZA.
Longer hours and live entertainment will be on the menu of a State Street tavern.
Continue reading ‘Cedar Hill Tavern Gets OK For Late Nights, Music’
by | Apr 11, 2019 2:50 pm | Comments (3)
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Wang with glass sample (and new design, below) for commissioners.
After four tries and two applications, owners of the Wooster Square Coffee Shop finally won permission from the Historic District Commission to put in new windows and doors to make their java junction attract more customers.
Continue reading ‘Coffee Shop Finally Meets Historic Muster’
by | Apr 10, 2019 3:10 pm | Comments (4)
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New City Plan Director Aïcha Woods on Tuesday morning.
City Hall has a new director of City Plan.
Aïcha Woods, an experienced architect, designer, and community volunteer, took over the reins of the department on Monday.
Continue reading ‘New City Plan Chief Aims To Connect With Neighborhoods’
by | Apr 10, 2019 8:04 am | Comments (2)
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Wilfredo Rodriguez explains features of the development’s facade at BZA Tuesday.
The final leg of Randy Salvatore’s three-part plan to build hundreds of new apartments along with storefronts on vacant Hill property got its final needed zoning approvals Tuesday night.
by | Apr 10, 2019 7:56 am | Comments (2)
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The old Von Roll factory at Chapel Street and Blatchley Avenue.
The owners of the former Von Roll factory building on Chapel Street in Fair Haven are seeking a special exception from the Board of Zoning Appeals that will allow their business to operate and bring 50 new jobs to an industrial zone.
Continue reading ‘New Fair Haven Factory Owner Seeks Zoning Exception’
by | Apr 10, 2019 7:50 am | Comments (8)
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New Haven’s Opportunity Zones.
New City Plan Director Aïcha Woods on Tuesday morning.
New Haven has seen opportunity realized. That opportunity came in the form of outside investors pouring money into a new Wendy’s.
Through zoning reform and investor courtship, city officials hope that future such investments look less like fast food and more like dense, mixed-use developments and public infrastructure improvements.
by | Apr 9, 2019 5:38 am | Comments (11)
Lee Cruz looking for some road safety on Grand Avenue.
LCI’s Arlevia Samuel and Paul Hudson talk Dixwell Avenue.
Bike- and pedestrian-friendly commercial corridors. Reimagined alleys and public space. And maybe even more density. But none of that at the expense of affordability.
City planners heard that vision from 40 people at a two-hour session on how to bring zoning into the modern era on Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell avenues.
by | Apr 2, 2019 2:30 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven’s newest ice-cream joint offers mammoth made-to-order originals, drawing on liquid nitrogen and featuring palate-glomming Frosted Flakes cereal milk.
by | Apr 2, 2019 7:43 am | Comments (3)
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Excavator on site at 87 Union.
Demolition has begun at the old Torrco site in Wooster Square, leaving a pyramid of cinderblocks and steel beams that will soon be replaced with nearly 300 new market-rate apartments.
by | Apr 1, 2019 2:41 pm | Comments (17)
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Line for storm relief, before welfare office closed.
A building that for decades doled out welfare to Newhallville would be reborn as a laundry where workers build wealth, under a plan hatched by the city.
by | Mar 29, 2019 5:50 pm | Comments (19)
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State economic development Commissioner David Lehman and DISTRICT founder and CEO David Salinas.
Mayor Toni Harp, Lehman, and Salinas.
Connecticut’s newly confirmed economic development chief toured New Haven’s bustling “DISTRICT” tech campus Friday — and proclaimed he saw the future of the state’s economy.