by | Dec 4, 2018 5:13 pm | Comments (31)
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Chief Campbell with recruits at the academy.
Hemorrhaging younger cops to the suburbs, New Haven is looking to pluck suburban retirees to help build its force back up.
by | Nov 30, 2018 8:26 am | Comments (3)
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Two of the three “Could Be Fund” co-chairs: Caroline Smith and Ben Berkowitz. Long Wharf Theatre’s Elizabeth Nearing is the third.
A new $152,000 fund from the city’s entrepreneurial incubator is looking for project proposals that will better connect three adjacent but economically and racially disparate city neighborhoods.
Continue reading ‘“Could Be Fund” Looks To Connect 3 Neighborhoods’
by | Nov 29, 2018 4:49 pm | Comments (10)
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Nemerson at the groundbreaking for the Audubon Square project.
The city’s embattled top development official, Matthew Nemerson, is resigning his post as of Friday to take a tech job.
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by | Nov 28, 2018 8:38 am | Comments (19)
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A bakery and coffee shop that roasts its own may become the next tenant at the historic Hall Benedict Drug Company building on Orange Street.
And the Bike New Haven advertising stanchion, which had riled residents, right outside the location — along with the bikes themselves — may be moved to another East Rock location before the aromatic new establishment moves in.
Continue reading ‘Bike Share Out, Baked Goods At Historic East Rock Pharmacy’
by | Nov 26, 2018 6:17 pm | Comments (44)
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Last look? This design will change, perhaps along with architect.
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Spinnaker’s Fowler: To the rescue?
One of the city’s busiest developers has signed on as a partner to restart the stalled plan to build a new urbanist mini-city on the gravesite of the old New Haven Coliseum.
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by | Nov 23, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (7)
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Spencer Luckey inside his bigger new plant.
Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California and the Middle East.
by | Nov 19, 2018 3:51 pm | Comments (11)
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The Great Wall Restaurant at 67 Whitney Ave.
The owners of a two-decade old Downtown Chinese restaurant plan to build three new stories and 15 new apartments atop their one-story eatery.
by | Nov 16, 2018 1:15 pm | Comments (3)
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The site, at 65 Broadway, in the alley way between book and computer emporiums.
A restaurateur is planning to open a new high-end Indian restaurant in the corridor between Broadway’s Yale Booskstore and the Apple Store, at the site of the shuttered Thali Too, a vegetarian Indian eatery that closed in 2017.
He plans to get a liquor license. But, he said, his people will be very well-behaved — so he doesn’t see why he’d have to close up at 11:30 p.m.
Continue reading ‘Thali Too Successor Wins Right To Stay Open Late’
by | Nov 16, 2018 8:30 am | Comments (5)
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742-750 and 754 Chapel St.
A Greenwich developer cleared the last administrative hurdle in his plans to convert the upper levels of two adjacent Chapel Street buildings into 29 market-rate apartments.
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by | Nov 16, 2018 8:28 am | Comments (5)
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Mayor Harp and Alder Greenberg join owners Coffin and Bodak, and GM Corina cutting the ribbon.
In a town where getting a good slice is a given, Robin Bodak and Doug Coffin thought adding one more place to the apizza landscape couldn’t hurt, especially when in a place where people have good memories.
Continue reading ‘“Next Door” Reimagines The Neighborhood Bar’
by | Nov 15, 2018 3:47 pm | Comments (9)
Family and friends are filtering in and out of Rubber Match to console the owner, George Zito, in the coming weeks before the store closes its doors for good.
by | Nov 15, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (1)
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The old Comcast building at 630 Chapel St.
Four years of legal disputes over the proposed development of the old Comcast service center on Chapel Street are just about over, paving the way for a busy Norwalk-based developer to convert the property into 200 luxury apartments.
Continue reading ‘Good News For Spinnaker At Comcast Building, Audubon’
by | Nov 15, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (21)
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IKEA attorney Jim Segaloff prevailing at Wednesday’s City Plan meeting.
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The Pirelli Building.
A plan to convert the long-vacant and historic Pirelli Building into a 165-room hotel received approval from the City Plan Commission despite a one-hour push by labor-affiliated alders and city staff to stall the proposal.
Continue reading ‘Pirelli Hotel Plan Survives Surprise Attack’
by | Nov 6, 2018 8:40 am | Comments (4)
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Rick Epstein.
Rick Epstein didn’t want work to get in the way of his employees’ civic duty. So his insurance company joined more than 300 across the country giving their employees time off to go vote.
by | Nov 1, 2018 9:35 pm | Comments (15)
Tim Wilson explains the growler to Mayor Harp.
It took brothers Tim and Shaun Wilson a little longer than they’d hope to get the doors of the city’s first production brewery and beer hall open — about three years — but nobody was counting during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their Nicoll Street facility.
by | Nov 1, 2018 2:12 pm | Comments (13)
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Mayor Toni Harp joins developer Nancy Greenberg in a ground breaking ceremony at 703 Whitney Avenue.
Forty-two luxury apartments are coming to the former Whitney Avenue headquarters of the Red Cross.
Continue reading ‘Luxury Transformation Of Red Cross HQ Underway’
by | Oct 31, 2018 4:20 pm | Comments (21)
Scores, looking down Saint John Street.
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Attorneys DiCrosta and Lawlor in housing court.
New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130 low-income housing units and artist lofts.
by | Oct 31, 2018 7:39 am | Comments (3)
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City officials joined the owners of Patty’s Caribbean Cuisine …
… and International Tastebuds for a dual ribbon cutting on Congress Avenue.
The taste of the Caribbean has come to Congress Avenue thanks to three immigrants who’ve recently decided to put out shingled — right next door to each other.
by | Oct 29, 2018 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Chayton Pabich Danyla as Edgar Allen Poe, Craig Henderson as a Commander from the Handmaid’s Tale, Andrea Barbelich as a handmaid, and Judy Deshpande as Anne Rica at Saturday’s party.
Centuries worth of literary and real-life New Haven characters showed up for the party — a fitting way to celebrate an indy used-bookstore that has survived tumultuous industry changes.
Continue reading ‘Booktrader Turns 20 — In Literary Costume’
by | Oct 26, 2018 1:06 pm | Comments (23)
Inside 115 River St.
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Mayor Toni Harp with Hunan Boom CTO Haitang Yang at The Study.
Over a swanky breakfast and then on a tour of tech and manufacturing hot spots, city leaders sought to convert a newly forged Chinese business connection into the creation of up to 100 local jobs.
by | Oct 24, 2018 3:31 pm | Comments (24)
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Rendering of proposed 16 Miller St. complex.
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Antunes: That’s all?
A developer got penultimate approval for a 17-year tax break to build 56 townhouses on long-vacant Route 34 land, but not before two alders questioned whether the help needed to extend that long.
by | Oct 24, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (12)
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Grand looking west at Jefferson, at the City Seed building, site of the much missed Frank’s hardware store.
A grocery, a deli, florist, a coffee shop, or an all-purpose hardware store so you wouldn’t have to drive five miles to pick up a nut, bolt, or screw.
An ethnic restaurant with tables on the sidewalk, to be welcoming. Something that says “neighborhood.”
And how about lowering traffic speeds, less loitering, and attracting foot traffic beyond clients of social service agencies?
by | Oct 24, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (1)
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HealthHavenHub Executive Director David Pearlstone and Co-Founder Donna Lecky with Ned Lamont in New Haven Tuesday night.
On the ninth floor of a Church Street office complex, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont Tuesday night showed a room full of entrepreneurs and techies that he can speak their language. Including their buzzwords.
by | Oct 23, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (21)
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Selection committee members Avi Szapiro and Jackie Buster and committee staff Steve Fontana at Monday’s meeting.
Proposals from two finalists lived to fight another day to win the right to run downtown’s next cultural hotspot .
by | Oct 19, 2018 12:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Plaza’s Clarke, Harp: Let’s see the plan.
Plaza passageway to back lot.
The faded retail hub of the Dixwell neighborhood appears on the verge of entering the 21st century.
Details to come, and be worked out.