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Apr 5, 2022 3:49 pm
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Downtown Alder Eli Sabin speaks up in support of zoning change.
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13-story apt. tower proposed for 78 Olive.
Alders overwhelmingly approved rezoning an Olive Street lot to make way for a proposed 13-story apartment tower to be built on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
Local legislators took that vote Monday night during the latest regular bimonthly meeting of the full Board of Alders. The in-person meeting took place in the Aldermanic Chamber on the second floor of City Hall.
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Matt Fantastic Loter |
Apr 4, 2022 9:10 am
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Project design for 78 Olive St.
(Opinion) Our affordable housing crisis is a complex issue, with many factors both local and national contributing to the rising rents and lower relative incomes behind it. And just as the causes are many, to help solve this crisis we need a multifaceted approach.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 2, 2022 2:45 pm
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The proposed zone change.
The Board of Alders’ legislation committee unanimously supported a request to rezone the lot at 78 Olive St. on Tuesday evening, inching one step closer to a 13-story apartment building at the site.
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Courtney Luciana |
Mar 2, 2022 1:45 pm
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Starting fresh: Ex-offenders Robinson and Shabazz picking up litter.
Abdullah Shabazz woke up at 2 a.m. Wednesday, showered, said his prayers, read the Quran, then caught the bus from Bella Vista to Grand Avenue to start cleaning up the street — and keeping on a straight path.
A Wooster Square developer’s altered plans for a 13-story apartment complex include more affordable housing and sidewalk improvements — drawing a mix of praise and criticism in its quest for support.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 10, 2022 4:16 pm
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Marc Massaro
New version of proposed monument.
Cristoforo Colombo was always aloft on his pedestal, looking out toward the harbor and sea, to catch the next ship and to sail off to his next conquest.
His replacement – the Italian, or perhaps universal, immigrant family – will have come from the sea, from far away, and to stay, to put down roots and to begin their American success stories.
That’s why they’re not going to be aloft on a plinth but at eye level, facing inward toward the park and the city they are helping to build. The viewer will be able look them in the eye.
PMC's McKeon: "We can get a copy of the report out to folks."
Building rendering, behind 360 State tower.
What rents will you charge?
“We’re still crunching numbers.”
How will zoning affect the ground floor?
“The report does not address that.”
Will construction interfere with the Farmington Canal Trail?
“I don’t know the details.”
Skeptical neighbors posed those and lots more questions Monday night to the developer of a proposed new 14-story building at 78 Olive St. They received a variety of iterations of “don’t know” in response.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 27, 2022 4:52 pm
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New version of proposed monument, with plaque.
Gone are the benches, planters, flood lights, and gravel walking paths.
The sculpture itself — of an aspiring immigrant family — remains in the picture, as a controversial plan to replace the former Wooster Square Christopher Columbus monument moved to a new stage.
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 24, 2022 8:52 am
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Make room for newbies: Current Wooster Square residents at dog park.
With new apartment complexes rising along and near Olive Street, Wooster Square is planning ahead of an anticipated influx of new neighbors — and the dogs they’re sure to bring with them.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 21, 2022 3:33 pm
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Lyman pies: Soon to be "made in New Haven."
Lyman VP John Lyman.
A Middlefield-based apple orchard company is moving some of its pie-baking business to New Haven, after purchasing three industrial buildings in Wooster Square and Long Wharf for $3 million.
A Philadelphia-based developer revealed plans to build a 13-story apartment building on the ever-densifying border of Downtown and Wooster Square — if it can win a requested zoning change.
Aaron Goode with voting reform advocates at Sally’s slicing session.
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One alternative Congressional district map, with New Haven and Bridgeport combined.
Seven voting reform advocates gathered around a table at Sally’s, far more satisfied with the way their pizza had been sliced than with the way New Haven is currently split into state legislative districts.
Rendering of the proposed new Fair Street “greenway,” to be included alongside 185 new apartments.
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A view of Fair Street, in August.
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved plans to build a new seven-story, 185-unit apartment complex on Fair Street — paving the way for a reopened public connection between Union Street and Olive Street, and piling on to the residential-development blitz currently taking place on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
… and a partially collapsed rear wall at 133 Hamilton St.
A Howard Avenue barbershop has been reduced to a dusty pile of wood and bricks.
Two fire-damaged Sheffield Avenue homes are boarded up and awaiting repairs.
And the old clock factory on Hamilton Street has a collapsed rear wall, 20 leaking oil drums, a corner apron of fallen bricks — and no construction workers in sight.
City building inspectors have their eyes on those derelict properties and more, according to a half dozen newly issued “unsafe structure” notices filed by the Building Department on the city land records database.
Proposed Fair St. “greenway” beside 185 new apartments (below).
A closed-off section of Fair Street will open to pedestrians — but not to cars or bikes — according to the latest plans from a Wooster Square developer looking to build 185 more market-rate apartments in the neighborhood.
City zoners unanimously approved land-use relief for two projects that promise to bring hundreds of new market-rate apartments to Wooster Square and East Rock.
Construction workers, construction critics at Fair & Union Wednesday.
Proposed site of 186 new apartments.
Wooster Square neighbors took to the streets Wednesday to fight a planned new 186-unit market-rate apartment complex — opening the latest front in a building-boom debate over what new housing should get built, where, and for whose benefit.
The line is backed up for spots at local self-storage centers — thanks primarily to college students leaving town for the summer, but also to rising rents and monopolization of the low-income real estate market.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Jul 26, 2021 9:05 am
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“Rosie the Riveter” cake for Edie Fishman.
Edie Fishman celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by bubbles, bright balloons, and flowers in Wooster Square Park.
Comrades, community leaders, neighbors, and friends poured into the park Saturday afternoon to wish her a happy centennial birthday and thank her for her years of work.
The longtime, struggling Grand Avenue retailer is looking to add two floors of apartments to its buildings, add townhouses in the back of the rarely used parking lot, and rescue a long-blighted building adjacent to the lot. The plan would also include converting an old masonry building across the avenue into five more apartments
The result: “An adaptive reuse of three blighted structures in a corridor where there’s a mixture of homeless people, neighborhood people, and it could certainly use some life.”
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Allan Appel |
Jul 15, 2021 2:01 pm
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335 St. John St., the morning after the wall collapse.
Here’s what neighbors in Wooster Square told the zoning board this week:
A landlord who allows a wall of an historic building to collapse should not be rewarded with legal permission to put in an under-sized basement apartment.
Here’s what the landlord’s attorney said:
We need that apartment to support a new wall to keep the building standing
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Allan Appel |
Jul 14, 2021 4:43 pm
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Renderings for Fair St.
When the easternmost block of Fair Street reopens as a public thoroughfare after 60 years, it will not be a new edition of Court Street with cute benches and shops.
Think rather of a dark alley serving as a driveway for another looming massive private development whose pricey market-rate rents will do little to address affordable housing needs.
One alder, at least, portrayed the planned reopening of that street. Another praised it for bringing back to life a dead street, with the potential to connect Wooster Square to the train station and the Hill.
A slew of Wooster Square neighbors registered opposition to approve the planned street reopening for now. While the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce said, in effect, All aboard!
