by | Apr 10, 2018 12:01 pm | Comments (4)
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Murray and Biondi.
Brian Murray and Matt Biondi have revived a beloved neighborhood restaurant in Morris Cove. They’ve brought back the pizza. Now, to complete their own vision for what their restaurant can be, they just need a smoker.
by | Apr 5, 2018 6:16 pm | Comments (5)
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Board members Joey Rodriguez and Tamiko Jackson-McArthur.
The Board of Education planned to renew $8.7 million in maintenance contracts this year, with only a small share going to locally-owned businesses, and even less to those owned by women and racial minorities.
by | Apr 2, 2018 5:34 pm | Comments (3)
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A moon rock landed on York Street Monday. With chocolate chips.
Continue reading ‘It All Started With The Maple Chocolate Chip’
by | Apr 2, 2018 2:43 pm | Comments (18)
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WVRA Executive Director Lizzy Donius pitches a new urbanist vision for Westville to the City Plan Commission.
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Proposed new zone.
City planners voted unanimously to approve the creation of a new zoning district for Westville Village that they hope will serve as a model for how to use zoning regulations to encourage dense, diverse, mixed-use economic development throughout the city.
by | Apr 2, 2018 1:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Collab founders Margaret Lee and Caroline Smith.
Seven local entrepreneurs received over $1,000 in seed money and a crash course on how to make their businesses work after completing the first round of an incubator program run by two New Haven small business advocates.
by | Mar 30, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (23)
Ken MacKenzie with his now-silent machines.
An historic New Haven business with the motto “Doing it right since 1864” has closed up shop, along with an old-fashioned way of making and repairing metal parts.
by | Mar 29, 2018 2:18 pm | Comments (13)
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Two new residential developments at Lafayette Street and Congress Avenue.
A 30-year plan to redevelop an 11.6‑acre “ghost town” of mostly parking lots and vacant buildings between the Hill and Downtown took another step forward on Wednesday night when city planners approved site plans for two residential developments that are scheduled to begin construction this fall.
by | Mar 22, 2018 12:50 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven city officials, with the help of Yale Law students, are seeking to leverage the buying power of major nonprofits to boost business and job creation. But first, they say, the state’s law on worker cooperatives has to change.
by | Mar 19, 2018 4:39 pm | Comments (59)
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Nemerson testifying: Techies will drive 15 minutes to an airport.
Hartford — New Haven officials urged lawmakers here to pass a bill that will allow a 1,000-foot extension of Tweed-New Haven Airport’s runway — and, the officials claimed, help the region and the state compete for high-tech jobs.
by | Mar 15, 2018 5:41 pm | Comments (7)
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Ganim, Walker and Harp pitch for Bridgeport and New Haven (top); Davis and Maynard pitch for tribal casino underway in East Windsor.
Hartford — Mayor Toni Harp and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim joined forces here to urge lawmakers to pave the way for a new casino for a region suffering staggering unemployment. They made a simple pitch: We need jobs.
Advocates of a tribal casino planned for East Windsor sought to complicate that narrative.
by | Mar 15, 2018 5:21 pm | Comments (5)
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Bonchon Chicken co-owner Tony Zhou shows off a freshly fried plate of chicken — the 20-piece “medium.”
When Tony Zhou first tried Korean fried chicken in 2014, he had no idea that a Korean soap opera was in part responsible for the explosion in popularity of the culinary phenomenon in China, Europe and the United States.
by | Mar 14, 2018 5:22 pm | Comments (4)
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Fausto Guamantari, the new man selling, fixing and shining shoes on Whitney Avenue, learned his trade from his father back in Ecuador.
by | Mar 14, 2018 8:12 am | Comments (14)
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Nip and drug litter at the corner of Whalley and Osborn avenues.
The city is looking to curb the number of nip bottles littering sidewalks, public parks, and storm drains by pushing for a statewide bottle deposit for the popular alcohol miniatures. It should not expect to find much support among city liquor store owners.
by | Mar 12, 2018 8:04 am | Comments (5)
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Bowens-Mercado toasts in celebration.
Addressing around 200 people who gathered for the launch of her new Rhythm Unfiltered Lager Craft Beer at Vanity on Temple Street Saturday, Alisha Bowens-Mercado triumphantly raised her glass of Rhythm, promising to bring her nascent beer company to a “completely different level.”
by | Mar 8, 2018 9:24 am | Comments (6)
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Rendered view of new plan from Q bridge.
The developer of a planned mixed-use project to transform the east-side gateway to New Haven at the Grand Avenue Bridge got an initial warm and positive reaction from Fair Haven Neighbors neighbors along with some concerns about — you guessed it! — parking.
Continue reading ‘“Heights On The River” Selling Tour Begins’
by | Mar 7, 2018 9:15 am | Comments (30)
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Envisioned stormwater ribbon park anchoring new design.
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Urban planner Stan Eckstut unveils plan Tuesday night.
New Haven won’t have just one Long Wharf district if an ambitious new plan takes form. It will have five urban, walkable Long Wharfs connected by a ribbon-like park.
by | Feb 27, 2018 1:12 pm | Comments (5)
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Bowens-Mercado with the first can of Rhythm Lager.
For Alisa Bowens-Mercado, New Haven’s queen of salsa dance instruction, the week kicked off with the celebration of two births: her own birthday, celebrated on Sunday, and the birth, Monday, of her new flagship craft beer, Rhythm Lager.
by | Feb 23, 2018 9:15 am | Comments (5)
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Blumenthal with Ben Berkowitz at SeeClickFix’s offices.
Connecticut needs an open internet for its startups to keep up with bigger names in the digital economy, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal told a roomful of New Haven techies Thursday.
by | Feb 19, 2018 12:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Ide Ehigiato.
Why did the turkey cross the road?
If Mel and Ide Ehigiato were telling the joke, the punchline would end with wedding gowns.
by | Feb 16, 2018 3:01 pm | Comments (19)
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Brothers Ricky and Brandon at their rib joint.
Prototype of new sauce.
The move to legalize marijuana in Connecticut has a New Haven entrepreneur eyeing his next move: Marketing a homegrown marijuana-infused barbecue sauce. And becoming “the Heinz ketchup of the cannabis industry.”
by | Feb 15, 2018 9:08 am | Comments (8)
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The under-construction DISTRICT project.
DISTRICT, the new nine-acre tech incubator/entertainment campus rising on James Street between Lombard and State, is three-fifths leased and on schedule to have a grand opening this summer.
by | Feb 13, 2018 4:17 pm | Comments (9)
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The new proposed Village Center, or BA-2, zone for Westville Village.
An assisted living facility would be OK, but not a boarding house. An apartment building could rise four stories and have a first-floor pharmacy — but no convenience store. Boutique hotel? Fine. Motel? Not fine.
And never shall there be a drive-through fast food restaurant in the heart of the Village.
by | Feb 9, 2018 5:08 pm | Comments (25)
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Rendered view of new plan from Q bridge.
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Petra and Salas-Romer.
A city developer plans to create a mini-neighborhood of middle-income apartments and local stores done in the architectural style of the historical oystering village along the East Grand Avenue side of the Quinnipiac River — an idea a previous builder tried and failed to carry out.
by | Feb 8, 2018 5:23 pm | Comments (12)
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Leon Mularski, Delaney’s architect.
A developer planning to resurrect the popular Delaney’s Restaurant & Tap Room in Westville Village told neighbors Wednesday night that he has taken pains to preserve what made the spot beloved, down to the same number of tables, operating hours and staff.
But, much to neighbors’ disappointment, the century-old building’s look won’t be making a comeback.
Continue reading ‘Neighbors Back Delaney’s Plan, Despite Design’
by | Feb 2, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (15)
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Adil Chokairy cuts the ribbon on his latest New Haven eatery.
Adil Chokairy is hoping that if you’re famished before or after a busy day of shopping in the Broadway District, you’ll fuel up with a crêpe.