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Netz Group Chief Investment Officer Frank Micali.
One of the city’s largest private landlord groups plans to convert three vacant Wooster Square former church buildings into 23 upscale apartments, pending zoning approval of the church’s request to correct a faulty property line.
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by | Oct 15, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (11)
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Shiller: Prices up 30 percent since 1975.
A three-family East Rock house sold for over double what it cost 30 years ago, and a major local property management company picked up four new units in two adjoining Fair Haven Heights homes, in some of the latest recorded land transactions in town.
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)
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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 9, 2018 6:04 pm | Comments (11)
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485 Grand: Take a last look.
Commission Chair Pedro Soto, Nemerson embark on van tour.
Part of English Station is coming down. Half of Church Street South has been demolished. And barbeque is coming to Fair Haven’s new tech hub.
Those were some of the takeaways of a 45-minute van tour Tuesday focused on past, present, and future economic development projects in the center of the city.
by | Oct 7, 2018 7:05 pm | Comments (27)
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Wearing tricorner hats and colonial uniforms, the Yalesville Fife and Drum Corps marched down the middle of Chapel Street to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Not far behind in white-collared shirts and black-and-yellow bowties, the Stylettes Drill Team stepped back and forth and spun in sync to the percussive beat of their own three drummers.
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by | Oct 4, 2018 12:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Entrance to the prime commercial space at Grand and Hamilton.
The first two buildings of the redeveloped Farnam Courts public housing development on Grand Avenue — remonikered as Mill River Crossing — are now nearly filled up. And the public-housing complex has a new name: “Mill River Crossing.”
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by | Sep 20, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (0)
New Haveners sipped booze and soda out of iconic anthora cups while appreciating the art of Michael Angelis at a pop-up show at 169 East St., the studio where he collaborated with Lunch Money Print to host his latest exhibit, “Disposable Aesthetics.”
The show gained popularity after his anthora cup print sold out in preorders.
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 5, 2018 7:21 pm | Comments (11)
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Metropolitan Business Academy.
Still easing into the academic year, students were dismissed early on Wednesday afternoon, after three schools were affected by a mid-morning power outage.
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 23, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (7)
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The Charles T. McQueeney Towers.
The city’s housing authority will receive nearly $8 million from the state to rehabilitate two local public-housing complexes, one downtown and one in Wooster Square.
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by | Jul 23, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (3)
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Maria Maddalena statue carried through Wooster Square Sunday.
Rheta DeBenedet slid a tray of assorted desserts past a plate of cannolis while instructing the guests filing into the common room to skip straight to the food –– unless of course they wanted coffee. They would have to wait their turn to snag an Americano.
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.
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by | Jul 17, 2018 4:44 pm | Comments (33)
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DuBois-Walton and Mayor Harp cut ribbon on new Mill River Crossing.
The former Farnam Courts public housing development has traded its dilapidated townhouses for high-rise living, a new name, and views of the Q Bridge and East Rock that rival some of the fanciest digs downtown.
by | Jun 22, 2018 10:49 am | Comments (1)
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Some came for the memories and to see old friends.
Others came to introduce a fourth and even fifth generation of local Italian-Americans to enduring traditions.
Almost everyone came to taste the sausage and peppers, the pasta e fagioli, and the fried mozzarella
Yet others come to plumb the mysteries of the secret sauce.
by | Jun 20, 2018 1:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Grasso Boulevard, planned site for new “opportunity school.”
Soon-to-be-vacant schools in Wooster Square and City Point could host cleaning materials, security camera feeds, science kits and other storage next year, under a money-saving plan to shift employees out of leased buildings.
by | Jun 20, 2018 12:51 pm | Comments (3)
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DOC staffers Marvin Anderson (right) and Eric Ellison (center) at Tuesday’s Downtown-Wooster Square management team meeting.
Downtown neighbors and city officials don’t disapprove of the prisoner reentry work done by a state parole office that is slated to relocate to Grand Avenue in a few months. They’re just frustrated with the location chosen and the lack of communication between the state and the new site’s neighbors.
by | Jun 20, 2018 8:07 am | Comments (0)
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Paola Morales, after she spoke.
Four years ago Paola Morales came to New Haven from Colombia. The only English she knew was “yes” and “no” and friends communicated with her – or tried to – through Google Translator.
She persevered with language and more, and finished High School in the Community (HSC) a year early. She has already completed a semester of courses at the University of New Haven.
She was back Tuesday evening, wearing a white gown, and a broad smile of pride as the valedictorian of the 2018 graduating class of HSC
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by | Jun 12, 2018 2:46 pm | Comments (4)
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Dimitri Rimsky surveys remnants of Hamilton Clock Factory.
Before the new owners of the historic Hamilton Street Clock Factory seal it up and begin the arduous process of turning it into artist lofts, a few ghosts returned to haunt the buildings abandoned halls.
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by | Jun 8, 2018 2:01 pm | Comments (1)
A new documentary about New Haven’s Little Italy is part fond recollections, part Ken Burns, and fully committed to the stories of everyday neighborhood residents.
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by | May 25, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (39)
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Mona Berman holds up 150 signatures in opposition.
Wooster Square residents question project organizers.
Wooster Square residents shouted each other down, hurled accusations of racism and NIMBYism, and brought some close to tears over a proposal to bring an overnight shelter for homeless youth to a struggling commercial strip of Grand Avenue.
by | May 23, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (13)
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Rendering of the future Clock Shop Lofts.
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Alder Reveiz with developer Reed before the vote.
The historic Hamilton Street clock factory will get a new lease as an apartment complex on life now that city alders have struck a deal that balances the city’s need for affordable housing with a developer’s need for tax relief to make an affordable-housing project viable.
by | May 4, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (20)
Rendering of Clock Shop Lofts.
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Festa: Good project. Tax break’s too big.
Let’s talk numbers. But let’s talk quickly.
That was the upshot of a meeting between alders and a developer about how much of a tax break the city can afford on a plan to turn an historic clock factory into 130 affordable apartments.
by | Apr 25, 2018 1:04 pm | Comments (15)
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Trash behind 873-887 Grand Ave.
A landlord amassing thousands of dollars in blight fines on a deteriorating building he owns in Westville is suing the city for harassment over another property he owns at the edge of Wooster Square. The city’s suing him back.