by | Feb 26, 2019 4:17 pm | Comments (2)
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The three young women pictured above put the future on display along with some local New Haven history …
by | Feb 25, 2019 4:29 pm | Comments (7)
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The now vacant former St. Michael’s school on Greene Street.
After a false start with a controversial landlord, St. Michael’s Church has found a new developer to purchase its vacant former school and convent buildings and turn them into apartments.
Continue reading ‘St. Michael’s School Conversion Resurrected’
by | Feb 25, 2019 3:10 pm | Comments (0)
CBD producers Matt Fastuca, Mike Simpson at hemp strategy session.
Fattie Roots pumps up the reggae at Saturday’s gathering.
Tinctures and textiles perched on tables around the room, a reggae band played, and the taps were flowing. Everything was in place to celebrate the launch of a new association for Connecticut’s emerging hemp industry — everything, that is, except for needed regulations.
by | Feb 25, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (3)
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Dixwell/Munson/Orchard intersection, looking south to the triangle, from Shelton.
Do anything you want. As long as you don’t mess with my building.
Continue reading ‘Rezoning Pitched For Dixwell Biz Corridor’
by | Feb 25, 2019 8:43 am | Comments (10)
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Miguel Almodovar, lawyer for both projects, pitching zoners.
Twenty-five apartments in a rehabbed historic carriage factory. A “Planet Venus” strip club with liquor service in a 1960s-era concrete warehouse.
Both are planned for within a half-mile of one another on the same post-industrial stretch of Wooster Square.
Welcome to the new Wallace Street?
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by | Feb 22, 2019 2:00 pm | Comments (7)
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The former East Rock Pharmacy at 763-767 Orange St.
Common Grounds Co-Owner Dena Jara and local attorney James Perito at Tuesday’s meeting.
The cafe owners and managers taking over the shuttered East Rock Pharmacy are promising not only more coffee and baked goods for the neighborhood, but also fewer parking headaches for the cafe’s immediate neighbors.
by | Feb 22, 2019 8:58 am | Comments (30)
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Crowd Thursday night demanding Yale meet 1,000 local-jobs pledge.
For three years after graduating from Wilbur Cross, Carlos Hernandez has been trying to get a service job at Yale until he can afford to go back to school to study radiology. Though he has cooked in kitchens and cleaned in hospitals, Yale has rejected his applications.
by | Feb 22, 2019 8:42 am | Comments (6)
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City Plan Senior Project Manager Anne Hartjen, Acting City Plan Director Mike Piscitelli, and Assistant Director of Comprehensive Planning Aïcha Woods on Wednesday night.
Cat cafes should be clearly defined. And self-storage facilities should be more closely reviewed.
Continue reading ‘Cat Cafe Clarified; Self-Storage Scrutinized’
by | Feb 21, 2019 2:00 pm | Comments (16)
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The state’s latest design for the second Union Station garage.
The Independent’s transit guru studies the data and weighs in.
Continue reading ‘Analysis: Garage Subverts State, City Goals’
by | Feb 21, 2019 8:38 am | Comments (3)
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Neapolitan brothers and new pizza restaurant owners Aleko and Jeshar Zeneli on Tuesday night.
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The third brother, Eataly NYC Flatiron Executive Pizza Chef Gazmir Zeneli, winning the Caputo Cup in 2017.
Three Neapolitan brothers plan to open their own pizza restaurant later this spring in the heart of the city’s Little Italy.
How will they compete with Pepe’s and Sally’s, not to mention the many farther flung famed local pizza joints?
With personal pies. Wood-fired stoves. And decades of experience.
Continue reading ‘Neapolitan Brothers Take On Wooster Square Pizza’
by | Feb 20, 2019 2:40 pm | Comments (23)
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Wang pitches historic commissioners on his plan.
All Jimmy Wang wants to do is put in bigger windows so pedestrian traffic can see how cozy his Wooster Square corner coffee shop is.
In an historic district, he’s learning, that’s not so simple.
by | Feb 20, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (9)
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Laborers at work Tuesday on Spinnaker’s Audubon Square project.
District Manager Lt. Sean Maher, in foreground, with team chair Smith, surrounded by carpenters.
Hillhouse High School graduate and proud local young carpenter Davon McNeil, 27, is enthusiastic about his profession and his town. A carpenters union member, he commutes daily to a project in Bridgeport.
He’d love to hammer the boards and do the framing of the many rising new buildings in his native New Haven.
But the builders, when they acquire their properties in private transactions involving no city help, don’t have to hire local.
Continue reading ‘Busy Builder Pressed To Hire Local Workers’
by | Feb 20, 2019 9:02 am | Comments (33)
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BZA’s Sarah Locke and Shirl Wilkins lead the charge.
The Duncan: Soon to be “Graduate New Haven” … or will it?
A surprise last-minute attack led by two union-affiliated zoning commissioners scuttled a boutique hotel developer’s bid for its final needed city approvals.
Continue reading ‘Surprise Attack Thwarts Hotel Duncan Plans’
by | Feb 20, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (5)
Tortora, on right, with customer Kerby Long.
Ben Tortora’s Grand Vin wine shop lost 15 – 18 percent of its business when the sidewalk all around the store was dug up during the two-year-long Quinnipiac Avenue redo beginning back in 2011.
Now the 73-year-old merchant fears losing 25 percent of his business when Grand Avenue Bridge closes for a year and more of major renovations.
by | Feb 18, 2019 3:24 pm | Comments (2)
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The new design.
It’s not every day that neighbors dispatch their lawyer before a city commission for the sole purpose of expressing joy at an outcome.
Continue reading ‘Oyster Farm Expansion, Redesigned, Wins Support’
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:47 am | Comments (4)
Pat Dillon and J.R. Romano on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.
Queens’s loss wouldn’t necessarily be Connecticut’s gain.
by | Feb 13, 2019 4:46 pm | Comments (5)
Google takes over the public library steps.
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Archibald at Google library event.
Malcolm X. Archibald knows a lot about real estate. He knew little about online marketing.
That changed on Wednesday as the 24-year-old real estate agent and budding entrepreneur joined dozens of local people for a corporate-led crash course on how to build a small business in the digital age.
by | Feb 13, 2019 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz: Governor is putting state on a debt diet.
While Hamden regional business people, state legislators, and citizens tucked into a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and pastries on Wednesday, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz got them ready to diet on debt.
Continue reading ‘Bysiewicz Serves “Debt Diet” Breakfast To Hamden Regional Chamber’
by | Feb 12, 2019 8:57 pm | Comments (12)
Aaron Kelsey shows Von Roll factory building to visitors from China; the space was later snapped up by a Brooklyn manufacturer.
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The old Von Roll factory at Chapel Street and Blatchley Avenue.
From electrical insulation to custom art frames.
A Fair Haven factory is about to make that transition as a Brooklyn-based frame manufacturer moves to town and a heavy industrial manufacturer rolls out, in the city’s latest property transactions.
by | Feb 12, 2019 2:25 pm | Comments (13)
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City’s Gerry Garcia Tuesday describing the plans.
Updated—New Haven is already flush with coworking spaces. But the city’s small business team sees room to open still one more, aimed at local college (non-Yale) student entrepreneurs.
by | Feb 11, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (3)
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The Westville arts scene grew a little bigger with the opening of Chapel Haven’s new UARTS program and store in the heart of the village Friday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘Chapel Haven Opens “UARTS” Store In Westville Village’
by | Feb 8, 2019 1:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Asher Arka and Gary Murphy at new downtown iZeek.
A new tech shop has opened on College Street. The shop’s operators are promising “fast quality” phone repair “without the hassle of going to a big store.”
by | Feb 8, 2019 1:38 am | Comments (2)
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Julie Robbins cuts the ribbon on The Well for Women Thursday.
Women of the Elm City have a new haven where they can take off their superwomen capes and draw from a “well” that aims to restore them to fight another day.
Continue reading ‘Well Women’s Sanctuary Opens In Westville’
by | Feb 5, 2019 6:19 pm | Comments (33)
“Dave’s Double” served Tuesday at new Whalley Wendy’s.
Happy customers: Naila Smalls and Wenona Hollby.
Above: tax solution for NYC investor.
A new restaurant has opened on Whalley Avenue. No officials cut a ribbon. No jubilant developer hired a p.r. firm to celebrate a multimillion-dollar private investment, the creation of dozens of jobs, and the boost to the tax rolls.
by | Feb 5, 2019 8:33 am | Comments (16)
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Cafe Romeo: Closed. But a new cafe coming soon.
Cafe Romeo has closed after ten years of selling coffee, pastries, and pizza from the corner of Pearl Street and Orange Street in East Rock.
The owner has sold the cafe to another local coffee shop, though he would not confirm which coffee shop that is.
Continue reading ‘Cafe Romeo Closes After 10 Years In East Rock’