by | Oct 19, 2018 8:07 am | Comments (11)
Alders Decker and Douglass with DISTRICT’s Salinas.
Focus on talent, not taxes. Focus on growing companies that come here and want to be here, not dying ones that left.
Local pols heard that message in Fair Haven as they entered a different world from the one depicted on this year’s gloomy gubernatorial campaign trail.
by | Oct 17, 2018 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Hot of the press: The first edition of New Haven Biz magazine.
The New Haven business community is leaping off the Internet and back onto the printed page.
by | Oct 17, 2018 12:15 pm | Comments (4)
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Envisioned stormwater ribbon park anchoring new Long Wharf design.
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City Assistant Director of Comprehensive Planning Aïcha Woods and Economic Development Officer Carlos Eyzaguirre.
A plan to redevelop Long Wharf into five new walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods is almost complete, laying the groundwork for a potential 20-year overhaul of the current sprawling, disconnected, and underused stretch of city waterfront.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Development Plan Ready For Public Debate’
by | Oct 16, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (9)
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Agora’s Matt Fantastic, one of the new owners of The Grove.
A team of punk rock game designers has taken ownership of a popular downtown co-working space, with a new game plan.
by | Oct 15, 2018 2:46 pm | Comments (1)
Homecooked’s founders.
When Hojung Kim moved off-campus during his undergraduate days at University of Chicago, he wondered how he would keep up with rent and friends.
His answer: Creating a pop-up restaurant in his home. Friends, friends of friends, and those who heard by word of mouth would come over and pay him to cook them food.
Continue reading ‘New App Builds Community Through Homecooked Meals’
by | Oct 12, 2018 12:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Clockwise from top left: New Westville shop owners Gonzales, Angela Pullo, Della Ragione, Lorri Cavaliere.
When Melissa Gonzales began looking for a storefront for a new incarnation of her popular vintage store Vintanthromodern, Westville Village came calling.
No really: The creatives and young entrepreneurs who have had a hand in reenergizing the neighborhood’s commercial district reached out and said, “Come to Westville.”
by | Oct 12, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (10)
State Street between Warren Place and May Street.
Cedar Hill is in its worst shape in half a century, and its few remaining business owners desperately need the city’s help.
They also need to convince city zoners to reconsider a decision that’s preventing an investor from expanding a gas station with a 24-hour convenience store.
Merchants from the pocket-sized neighborhood at the eastern end of New Haven’s Hamden border delivered that message Thursday to city economic development and anti-blight officials during an emotional hour-and-a-half-long meeting.
by | Oct 11, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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In hallway outside hearing, Camille Ansley marshals the resistance.
VISION
The current lot, which new owners want to reconfigure.
How can a business make or break the safety of a neighborhood? Do 24-hour operations make it more or less safe?
Cedar Hill neighbors are confronting those questions at the intersection of Ferry and State streets.
by | Oct 10, 2018 8:07 am | Comments (5)
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The proposed new Avis Car Rental service on Olive Street.
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Developer Arsalan Altaf pitches zoners Monday night.
A request for a special exception for a rental car company on Olive Street to store its cars indoors sparked a rift among neighbors about whether such a business should come to Wooster Square at all.
by | Oct 10, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (9)
CROSSKEY ARCHITECTS
Rendering of future Clock Shop Lofts.
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Development staffers Clayton Williams and Carlos Eyzaguirre at Tuesday’s commission meeting.
The developers of a new 133-unit low-income and artist loft housing complex in Wooster Square will get $800,000 in city-managed federal funds to help pay for part of the site’s estimated $6.6 million environmental remediation.
by | Oct 8, 2018 2:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Salim Bendacha (above left) questions candidate Bysiewicz (below).
The founder of a New Haven tech start-up had one word of advice for Susan Bysiewicz: blockchain.
Continue reading ‘Techie Pitches Bysiewicz On Next Big Thing’
by | Oct 4, 2018 3:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Lauren Tagliatela accepts the Community Leadership Award on behalf of her family.
From businesses with generations of contributions in the region and state to those who just opened their doors last spring, the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce sought to honor them all at its annual Business Leadership Awards Thursday.
by | Oct 3, 2018 7:26 am | Comments (7)
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Ibrahim in the kitchen.
Mubarakah Ibrahim needs to rent a commercial kitchen for no more then 10 hours each week to prepare and bake the dozens of navy bean pies that her small business distributes to local cafes and grocery stores.
But current city law treats her, and charges her, as if she owns an independent restaurant.
Now she wants to change the law.
by | Oct 1, 2018 4:50 pm | Comments (5)
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Union League owner and Chef Jean-Peierre Vuillermet joins his staff, family and friends on Chapel Street.
The Union League Cafe is the place in New Haven where people make big deals — in life and in business. And on Monday afternoon people gathered to celebrate the French-inspired brasserie being a big deal on Chapel Street for 25 years.
by | Sep 28, 2018 3:05 pm | Comments (2)
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Kim Harris and Spirite Watson, 8, and Aneissa Beam, 11, present a dream board for Newhallville.
More black-owned businesses. More activities for children. A praying community with a few more speed bumps and communication. That’s how more than 100 Newhallville neighbors want to see their community develop.
ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons wants to use what he has access to — resources, influence, knowledge — to help neighbors make that vision a reality on Newhallville’s terms.
by | Sep 26, 2018 7:46 am | Comments (25)
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LCI chief Serena Neal-Sanjurjo (right) pitches deal with transit chief Doug Hausladen and Beacon’s Dara Kovel.
The Ninth Square.
A deal to keep affordable housing in the Ninth Square received a needed preliminary approval Tuesday night amid discussion about why it needs a two-decade tax break.
by | Sep 25, 2018 3:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Owner Sampson, left, with satisfied customer Yale economics major Nathalya Leite.
Chunks of the bottom-crawling creature, not stringy fragments. And not a modest helping, but a hefty four ounces. Slathered in tons of butter.
by | Sep 25, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (13)
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Long Wharf’s Joshua Borenstein, College Street Music Hall’s Keith Mahler pitch the Parking Authority.
Who will bring more people to downtown New Haven? Who has the sounder business plan, and the deeper pockets? And who will better complement the entertainment district’s current mix of restaurants, theaters, clubs, concert venues, schools, and other community arts groups?
Those were some of the many questions asked Monday night during a New Haven Parking Authority meeting dedicated almost entirely to discussing who will next occupy the vacant commercial space on the ground floor of the Crown Street Garage.
by | Sep 21, 2018 8:33 am | Comments (35)
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Stacy Spell and Anthony Dawson: 2 takes on Route 34 plan.
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A rendering of the proposed 16 Miller St. complex.
A plan to develop housing on 4.3 vacant acres along Route 34 moved forward Thursday night, but not before a longtime neighborhood leader criticized a turn away from promoting homeownership.
by | Sep 19, 2018 8:58 am | Comments (7)
It’s time to start exploring whether New Haven needs to start over looking for someone else to build a new project on the grave of the old New Haven Coliseum.
Continue reading ‘Harp: Time To Explore New Coliseum Site Builders’
by | Sep 18, 2018 12:59 pm | Comments (4)
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Cutting the ribbon at The Learning Experience on Tuesday morning.
Matthew The Development Administrator (left) hanging with Bubbles the Elephant (center), the official mascot of The Learning Experience. At right: Lena Largie.
A former parking lot stranded between MLK Boulevard and Legion Avenue in the Hill is now home to a 10,000 square-foot childcare center that uses a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters to teach toddlers everything from vocabulary to etiquette to yoga.
by | Sep 14, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (28)
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Workers building Audubon Square, symbol of the boom.
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Steve Fontana, Clay Williams, Matthew Nemerson make the case.
The Harp administration pitched a plan to harness the city’s building boom to tackle its yawning structural deficit: Change the terms of tax deals offered to builders.
by | Sep 14, 2018 7:49 am | Comments (5)
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Olmo chefs and co-owners Craig Hutchinson and Alex Lishchynsky with Olmo general manager Tessa Cooney.
Tamales made with fermented pork sausage and farina. Coal-roasted vegetables served with housemade ricotta. A 32-ounce dry-aged ribeye steak.
Oh yeah, and one-dollar bagels, baked in house every morning and available seven days a week.
Those are a few selections from the eclectic menu of Olmo, the new restaurant, catering service, and take-out spot that will replace the recently closed Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro at the corner of Trumbull Street and Whitney avenue downtown.
by | Sep 13, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (5)
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742 Chapel St.
In a sign of a continuing residential boom, a Greenwich-based developer plans to convert downtown office space into 29 new market-rate apartments just around the corner from where he plans to build a six-story, 60-unit apartment complex atop a currently vacant parking lot.
Continue reading ‘Downtown Builder Plans 29 More Apartments’
by | Sep 11, 2018 2:46 pm | Comments (24)
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Officials break ground on Audubon Sq.: Will cranes save city’s finances?
As New Haven reckons with two recent credit downgrades, a substantial structural deficit, and a double-digit tax increase, city officials are banking on a bright light at the end of the tunnel to guide the Elm City towards future financial health.
That light? New construction.