by | Mar 25, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (11)
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Mt. Calvary Revival Center on Legion Avenue.
Jesus Christ and pre‑K kids will each get a “sliver” of city land — if the sale of two odd-cut, publicly-owned properties next to an adjacent Pentecostal church with plans for a daycare wins final approval.
Continue reading ‘Legion Sliver Lot Eyed For Church Daycare’
by | Mar 22, 2024 3:57 pm | Comments (12)
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Milling your own grain is like grinding coffee to order, according to Frisch, who does both.
Bill Frisch signed up for the city’s DNA of the Entrepreneur program — and found the right recipe to make his business, East Rock Breads, rise to the top.
City officials joined Frisch outside his shop at 942 State Street Friday to cut a formal ribbon for the new shop and publicize the secret ingredient to that shared success: $15,000 in funding from the city’s Leaseholder Improvement Program.
by | Mar 21, 2024 4:14 pm | Comments (24)
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The ex-Monterey club: Still vacant. Still Ocean-owned.
Reator Latasha Eaddy: City-Ocean deal fell apart "quite some time ago." Private sales in the works, including for 269 Dixwell (pictured).
A city plan to acquire the derelict former Monterey jazz club and three surrounding Dixwell buildings from an oft-fined megalandlord has hit a flat note — and, apparently, collapsed altogether — after the Elicker administration ditched a purchase-and-sale agreement and issued new clean-up orders.
Months after that public deal fell apart, Ocean Management is reportedly now lining up new private buyers for these same properties.
by | Mar 21, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (4)
From "mass-level instruments of death" to homes and community: Matt Pugliese, Alder Kim Edwards, Alder Troy Streater, Eric Steinberg, Alex Twining, Arlevia Samuel, David Silverstone, Jake Pine and Mayor Justin Elicker break ground on Winchester Green.
As excavators pushed dirt from side to side at 315 Winchester Ave., city officials and housing developers dug shovels into a picture-planned pile of rocks to symbolically break ground on the mixed-use development that will one day be called the Winchester Green.
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by | Mar 20, 2024 9:36 am | Comments (8)
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Grand Avenue business owners Carolina Vergara and Yolanda Guzman: Customers are getting assaulted.
Grand Avenue business owners left their shops and rallied on the side of the road — in hopes the city would hear their call to clean up crime across the streets of Fair Haven.
by | Mar 19, 2024 4:25 pm | Comments (5)
Alex Ankrah and Josephine Bailey: Family Dollar is a top-dollar date space.
Mother and daughter Hinasta L and Celeste Burrell left Family Dollar with Rockin’ Protein, hand sanitizer, period pads and heavy hearts — as they prepared for potential closure of the only store in the city keeping their pockets lined with more than lint.
by | Mar 19, 2024 10:18 am | Comments (4)
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Ball & Socket Arts front view.
When asked to name the cultural hubs of the Northeast, most people would not consider Cheshire, Connecticut a part of that list. A group of enthusiastic artists and supporters of the arts are hoping to change that over the next few years, as Ball & Socket Arts, a complex located on West Main Street right along the Farmington Canal Linear Path, continues its efforts to create a central location aimed at encouraging ongoing creativity and attracting New Haven County residents and beyond to its galleries, performance venue, art education center, and more.
Continue reading ‘Ball & Socket Arts Turns Factory Into Gallery’
by | Mar 15, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (25)
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The gas station at 9 p.m. Thursday.
A Kimberly Avenue gas station ran out of fuel while requesting extended hours of operation — after community members complained over the convenience store’s contribution to neighborhood crime.
by | Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (9)
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Looking east from where wall would begin.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
by | Mar 13, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (3)
Joshua McCown.
Spaced out on the walls of Time A Tell, a clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave., are black-and-white photos. Each shows a celebrated rap artist — Baby Money, DThang, Cuban Doll, Skilla Baby, and Babyfxce E — wearing Time A Tell clothing made by Joshua McCown, the shop’s 20-year-old owner.
Continue reading ‘Prodigy Designer, 20, Turns Heads Worldwide’
by | Mar 12, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (3)
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It fits! Eddie's Everything Extravaganza, prize item (above) at Whalley's newly opened Lea's Falafelhaus.
Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread?
“We’re gonna learn,” Eddie Eckhaus said, “right now.”
by | Mar 8, 2024 2:28 pm | Comments (42)
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No sign of "religious" activity: Assessor Pullen (left); portions of the blighted Scientology building.
Scientologists will have to pay taxes after sitting on plans to resurrect Ron Hubbard’s spirit inside the deteriorating doors of a former furniture store — now that the city revoked the church’s tax-exempt status.
Continue reading ‘Blighted Scientology Building Returned To Tax Rolls’
by | Mar 7, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (11)
Partners in life and business, Jonathan Dolph and Hu Ping-Dolph: cheers to their newest restaurant.
Hot Pot is the name and aim of Hu Ping-Dolph’s latest New Haven revelation: a sit-down soup joint at 68 Whitney Ave. offering a steamy reprieve from the cold season.
Continue reading ‘Ribbon Cut On New Haven's Latest Hot (S)Pot’
by | Mar 7, 2024 2:46 pm | Comments (22)
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Port Authority's Sally Kruse: Planning for harbor growth.
Ghost ships ahoy? A foggy look at the port district on Wednesday from the Tomlinson Bridge.
Steel rods on Stiles Street.
Need a spot to store lots of steel rods or planks of wood?
Then you’re in luck, because the New Haven Port Authority has now bought more than three acres of previously state-owned land in the city’s industrial waterfront district — and is looking to lease to companies needing a place to put their shipped-in goods.
by | Mar 6, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Hip-hop superstar Jadakiss joins the party.
Quick: Name the New Haven location where a platinum-selling Grammy-nominated hip hop superstar and coffee entrepreneur joined an award-winning cupcake maker, an up-and-coming cigar collective, and a community-minded lemonade company.
That was Dwight Street’s Cambria Hotel last week, where area entrepreneurs showcased their wares before 100 people in a coffee-tasting event featuring Kiss Cafe and sponsored by Gorilla Lemonade in celebration of Black History Month.
Continue reading ‘Cigars, Cupcakes & Lemonade: Black Entrepreneurship On Display’
by | Mar 5, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (15)
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Dawn Leaks Ragsdale (center), Yale VP Alexandra Daum & Mayor Justin Elicker.
A local champion of entrepreneurial equity has been chosen to to lead the New Haven-focused “Center for Inclusive Growth” that Yale promised to build in 2021 — and now will start trying to define two years later.
by | Feb 28, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (2)
niko w. okoro and Erik Clemons.
A new art gallery is coming to the Lab at ConnCORP, on Newhall. The Orchid Gallery, organized by nico w. okoro of the bldg fund, is born out of conversations with area artists, with the goals of making a space for Black and Brown artists in the community to be seen and heard, supporting them in their professional development, and making a place where artists can come together.
Continue reading ‘Orchid Gallery Prepares For Inaugural Show’
by | Feb 22, 2024 3:09 pm | Comments (36)
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91 Shelton Ave. to stay deteriorated on the outside ...
... and musically inspired on the inside.
City Plan commissioners killed a request to turn a dilapidated former factory serving as local artist studios into storage units — after deciding the development sounded like “dead space.”
by | Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm | Comments (6)
Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez: The Hill's happening.
Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
by | Feb 21, 2024 9:12 am | Comments (10)
Inside the Arvinas lab.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
by | Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Co-owners Donald Moody and Mujahid Mohammed with Dannie Beverly of Made in Greenwood smoke shop.
Mujahid Mohammed had a dream. So did Dannie Beverly. And Donald Moody. It was, as it turned out, the same dream.
“All three of us did time in prison, and we wanted to come up with something for the community, a platform to give back, and that was starting our own business,” said Mohammed on a recent afternoon at Made in Greenwood.
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Builder Clay Fowler (at center): Market's back, but construction costs rose too.
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The vacant lot where a hotel is slated to rise.
A developer has revived the idea of building a hotel, rather than apartments, on the vacant lot that once housed Webster Bank. The city gave him some extra time to decide.
Continue reading ‘Hotel Might Come To Ex-Webster Lot After All’
by | Feb 15, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (14)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
by | Feb 15, 2024 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
A plan to build affordable housing for veterans has been discharged due to a bad parking design.
by | Feb 14, 2024 4:42 pm | Comments (4)
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Congressional staffer Lou Mangini, fest chief Shelley Quiala, and A&I staff at Wednesday's announcement.
The International Festival of Arts and Ideas has received a federal grant for $45,000 to support two of its events this June — adding to a larger pot of federal support for the organization as it lays out its lineup for the summer and charts its path forward as an organization for this year and beyond.