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924 Grand Ave. before and after the proposed Y2Y buildout. Below: Y2Y supporters at Wednesday’s meeting.
A temporary housing facility for homeless youth won approval — and dodged a potentially contentious future public hearing — in its bid to build a 12 to 20-bed rooming house atop a single-story social services building on Grand Avenue.
The operative phrase is “rooming house.” Not “shelter.”
A developer Tuesday night unveiled details of a plan to turn three vacant Wooster Square properties into 23 luxury apartments, and heard some pushback about the market prices.
United Illuminating plans to knock down a decommissioned Olive Street electric substation and leave a vacant lot at the heart of Wooster Square in order to reduce its local property tax burden and cut down on security costs.
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May 21, 2019 12:03 pm
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John Taylor: We need space.
A Wooster Square school closed down by budget cuts may fill up with students again next year — this time, by a local charter operator that’s bursting out of their current space.
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May 7, 2019 12:40 pm
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Scores owner Peter Forchetti and attorney Anthony DiCrosta in court.
A housing court judge has given a Mill River strip club eight days to post $1.2 million in cash or collateral to avoid immediate eviction from its dilapidated clock factory home.
People got to learn Sunday, during the Historic Wooster Square 46th Cherry Blossom Festival, that “life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
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Apr 18, 2019 12:04 pm
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The former St. Michael’s School buildings on Greene Street.
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Michael Massimino (center with scissors) at 2009 Bishop Woods development.
A Branford-based, mother-son development team has closed on its purchase of three long vacant St. Michael’s Church school and convent buildings. They plan to convert the buildings into 23 market-rate apartments.
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Apr 17, 2019 12:10 pm
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CRB candidates Elizabeth Larkin and Steve Hamm.
The first candidate is a Yale-trained young lawyer who works with one of the city’s most renowned civil rights lawyers on police-related cases.
The second candidate is the outreach supervisor for for one of the city’s anchoring social service agencies helping homeless kids confront racism and police profiling.
The third is a former New Haven Register police reporter and the creator most recently of a documentary about community policing in the Elm City.
Whom, among these embarrassment-of-riches very talented and qualified candidates, should a community management team choose to recommend as its representative for the evolving Civilian Review Board?
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Apr 11, 2019 2:50 pm
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Wang with glass sample (and new design, below) for commissioners.
After four tries and two applications, owners of the Wooster Square Coffee Shop finally won permission from the Historic District Commission to put in new windows and doors to make their java junction attract more customers.
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Apr 2, 2019 7:43 am
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Excavator on site at 87 Union.
Demolition has begun at the old Torrco site in Wooster Square, leaving a pyramid of cinderblocks and steel beams that will soon be replaced with nearly 300 new market-rate apartments.
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Apr 2, 2019 7:34 am
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A federal judge fined two property-owning brothers $9,500 each and sentenced each to one year of probation and 50 hours of community service for illegal and dangerous removal of asbestos from a Mill River warehouse.
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Mar 18, 2019 3:23 pm
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Contested beachfront: Cirino’s property at left; Palmieri’s, right.
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Palmieri in a past interview about the family food biz.
The city has moved to foreclose on a Mill River spaghetti sauce manufacturing plant due to unpaid taxes.
Meanwhile, the plant’s third-generation owner owes over $430,000 to a Morris Cove neighbor whom he took to court six times over 15 years over who owns the beach abutting their properties.
City officials, economic boosters, and developers move some gravel to celebrate 87 Union St. groundbreaking.
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The latest design for 87 Union St.
It took five years and two different developers to get from the first community meeting to the groundbreaking.
Now work is beginning on a 299-unit, market-rate apartment complex on the border of Wooster Square and Downtown, and builders predict it will take far less than another five years to finish the job and fill the block with new tenants.
Scene of discovery beneath clock factory floorboards.
The developers of the new Clock Shop Lofts apartments recently stumbled upon a half-dozen high-power firearms buried beneath the floorboards of the former Hamilton Street factory complex.
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Feb 25, 2019 4:29 pm
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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.
