by | Sep 11, 2018 8:33 am | Comments (3)
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Boarded-up windows at 873-887 Grand.
The city’s going after a Great Neck, N.Y. landlord — to the tune of $50,000 — for a mess he allegedly has created on Grand Avenue.
by | Sep 6, 2018 8:03 am | Comments (17)
Top: Rendering of one proposal. Bottom: Shubert team’s Fisher & Verrasatro; Music Hall’s Mahler and Nussbaum.
Newly obtained documents show College Street Music Hall and a consortium of Long Wharf Theatre / Shubert Theatre / Albertus Magnus College presenting two competing visions for downtown’s next entertainment venue.
by | Sep 6, 2018 7:55 am | Comments (3)
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New Haven L.L. Bean Store Manager Susan Gardella cuts the ribbon Wednesday.
Five people got the boot at the new L.L. Bean store Tuesday. And they were glad about it.
by | Sep 4, 2018 5:18 pm | Comments (14)
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District, a tech campus that will house Holberton School.
Holberton’s Julien Barbier.
A computer programming school is betting New Haven could become the next Silicon Valley, only without the Bay Area’s crushing cost of living.
by | Sep 4, 2018 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
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Fountain Street’s Elm City Sounds.
Chris Della Ragione, owner of Elm City Sounds, recalled how he and Jeff Chamiac came to work together at the newest place to find old vinyl in New Haven, which has just opened on Fountain Street in Westville.
by | Sep 4, 2018 2:41 pm | Comments (1)
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On Labor Day, I watched from across the street as a young man walked up to the front door of an abandoned East Rock storefront and tried to peek through the shaded windows. Where, he must have wondered, was the drug counter, the mini-post office, the usual human bustle?
by | Sep 4, 2018 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
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MakeHaven, New Haven’s downtown “maker space,” now has a lot more space.
by | Aug 23, 2018 1:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Developer Arsalan Altaf presents the proposed plan to neighbors.
Another vehicle-rental service plans to come to Wooster Square.
by | Aug 17, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (0)
Shanda Ferrucci and daughters.
Shanda Ferrucci grew up on a farm in the South and likes eating fresh produce, preferably grown by her family. She also likes bargain prices on name brands for paper goods and cleaning products.
She’s going to have both close by at the new Family Dollar store at 1168 Whalley Ave. near the corner of Dayton Street.
The new Family Dollar, which replaces an old CVS, is marking its grand opening week with a partnership with the local Boys and Girls Club to grow veggies and then sell them at a grand farmers market day in front of the new store later in the year.
by | Aug 9, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Contreras: Check out my white hairs.
Contreras’s 126 Farren garage, which the city says was illegally converted into an auto body shop.
At 33, Antonio Contreras is watching hair turn white.
He blames zoning rules that have landed him and other small-business and property owners in trouble in the Annex neighborhood.
by | Aug 7, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (46)
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Ninth Square on Monday night.
A Boston-based developer will buy over 300 Ninth Square apartments and keep more than half of them “affordable” in return for a 20-year tax abatement, under an agreement revealed Monday night.
Continue reading ‘9th Sq. Deal Preserves Affordable Housing’
by | Aug 3, 2018 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Bill Qian at Whitney Ave. shop selling his new herbal mouthwash.
Green tea doesn’t do it for me — as a beverage.
As a mouthwash? Much better.
by | Aug 2, 2018 7:49 am | Comments (6)
Land used to store construction materials for the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge will now be put to use expanding the city’s port economy.
by | Aug 1, 2018 4:23 pm | Comments (17)
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L.L. Bean groupie Gordon Daniell at new Elm Street store.
Inside the store on opening day.
Gordon Daniell entered the new L.L. Bean store that opened on Elm Street Wednesday already wearing L.L. Bean-brand khakis, shoes, and a sun-blocking hiking shirt.
by | Jul 30, 2018 6:43 pm | Comments (18)
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Developer Max Reim’s last public sighting, in 2015; newly released emails show him at odds with the city.
The missing-in-action Montreal developer who is years late on starting to build on the old Coliseum site promised the city he’ll finally have some “happy” news by early September.
by | Jul 25, 2018 3:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Antonio Arcos and Dawn Jara at Tuesday’s BZA meeting.
You can still call it Carmine’s. But it’s no longer Carmine’s Tuscan Grill.
Instead, when you next eat at the Italian restaurant in the Amity section of the city, know that you’re eating at “Carmine’s Di Vega Ristorante & Bar.”
by | Jul 25, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (12)
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Mew Haven Cat Cafe husband and wife team Michael and Angela Pullo at Tuesday’s BZA meeting.
Connecticut’s first cat cafe is a step closer to opening in Westville Village center now that the Board of Zoning Appeals granted its owners a special exception Tuesday night.
by | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (4)
Barista Meg Rattanni creates latte art.
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Ballaro and Negreiro at the newly opened Fussy Coffee in Science Park.
The story of how Fussy Coffee at Science Park came to be named is a joke between David Negreiro and his brother-in-law and business partner Joe Ballaro.
On one level, it’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on how pretentious some coffee shops can be. On another level, it’s about the two men’s love of a good coffee after a meal.
by | Jul 20, 2018 11:37 am | Comments (2)
342 Grand Avenue
The Fair Haven Community Health Care Center is one step closer to purchasing a foreclosed property of 342 Grand Ave. for $2,000. Now, all it requires is few more city approvals and hundreds of thousands of dollars for renovations.
by | Jul 20, 2018 7:47 am | Comments (9)
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Could this be the future home of a midsize music venue?
Dozens of people hoping to create the next big thing in the home of the former Boppper’s nightclub got a chance to tour the space as they prepare bids to be the next lessee.
by | Jul 19, 2018 2:33 pm | Comments (20)
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Audubon Square Construction crew at work.
Bitsie Clark spent decades chasing a dream. On Thursday morning she grabbed a shovel to help celebrate the dream coming true.
by | Jul 19, 2018 7:49 am | Comments (7)
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The new 87 Union St.
City planners granted the brand new owners of a Union Street property a five-year extension to complete the previous owner’s plans for a long-delayed mixed-use development on the downtown side of Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘New Owners Get 5-Year Extension For Wooster Sq. Project’
by | Jul 18, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (26)
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Proposed State Street apartment complex.
A new 60-unit State Street apartment complex won’t necessarily offer affordable housing. But it also won’t charge luxury prices, instead aiming for a “mid-price” that falls somewhere in between.
Continue reading ‘New State St. Apartments Will Aim For “Mid-Price”’
by | Jul 17, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (3)
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This is not L.L. Bean. But home for another future retailer.
Yale is adding a little more retail space next door to the new L.L. Bean store on Elm Street, and is asking for permission to add fewer than the required number of parking spaces.
Continue reading ‘Parking Exception Sought For Retail Space Next To L.L. Bean’
by | Jul 13, 2018 1:52 pm | Comments (11)
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Ninth Square: still affordable.
An entire neighborhood could soon have a new owner.