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Get Ready To Call Him “Banker DeStefano”

by Paul Bass | May 21, 2013 12:00 pm | Comments (21)

After 20 years running City Hall, John DeStefano plans to move into an office a mile west on Whalley Avenue—to help run a community development bank he brought into existence.

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Crown St. Visions Collide

by Thomas MacMillan | May 17, 2013 3:16 pm | Comments (3)

One person sees a “shady gas station” on the corner of Howe and Crown.

That’s “crypto-racist,” says another.

At the corner of Orange and Crown sits one person’s “weird art place.” To another it’s “Artspace (not weird.)”

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Harp Casts Doubt On 9th Square Bailout Plea

by Paul Bass | May 16, 2013 4:03 pm | Comments (31)

Mayoral candidate Toni Harp questioned a developer’s argument that it needs a $10 million-plus bailout from the city to keep the Ninth Square project alive, while two of her opponents expressed support for spending some new money to preserve affordable housing there.

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Antenna Plan Withdrawn

by Allan Appel | May 16, 2013 10:55 am | Comments (2)

One telecommunications company withdrew its application to put an antenna on a historic Fair Haven building, while another got the OK to upgrade out-of-sight equipment atop an East Rock roof.

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New Gas Station OK’d

by Allan Appel | May 16, 2013 9:33 am | Comments (4)

By a unanimous vote Wednesday night the City Plan Commission gave the thumbs up to a plan for a convenience store and four gasoline pumps to be installed at 281-289 Chapel at Mill River Street.

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Check Out The Coliseum Now (Or In The Future)

by Allan Appel | May 14, 2013 1:23 pm | Comments (22)

The city went public Tuesday with phase one of a developer’s plan for the Coliseum lot: A strollable “town square” with five- or six-story apartment buildings; top-of-the-line wine shops and restaurants; and a “woonerf”—a special lane for pedestrians and cyclists, not drivers—that takes you to State Street.

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C-Town Expansion Blocked

by Allan Appel | May 10, 2013 12:38 pm | Comments (1)

C-Town Supermarket’s attempt to spread commercial activity onto an adjacent block in Fair Haven came to an end after neighbors convinced lawmakers to overturn a zoning decision.

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Higher One Expands, Again

by Thomas MacMillan | May 10, 2013 8:29 am | Comments (1)

What can you buy for $47.25 million?

If you’re New Haven tech powerhouse Higher One, that much money will get you an existing company with 60 employees and several hundred clients.

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9th Square Developer Seeks A Bail-Out

by Paul Bass | May 9, 2013 4:13 pm | Comments (47)

Saying it’s running out of cash, the developer of the Ninth Square downtown apartment and retail district is asking the city to forgive $9.9 million in unpaid interest and obtain another 15 years worth of tax breaks.

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Manic Mark Goes Retail

by Thomas MacMillan | May 9, 2013 9:36 am | Comments (6)

Amid an onslaught of garage-rock guitar chords, the biggest name you’ve never heard of in local music promotion waded through a crowd of nodding teenagers wearing ironic T-shirts and claimed a new kind of concert swag: a pair of jeans.

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