Citgo Told To Go Home
| Mar 15, 2024 3:35 pm |A Kimberly Avenue gas station ran out of fuel while requesting extended hours of operation — after community members complained over the convenience store’s contribution to neighborhood crime.
A Kimberly Avenue gas station ran out of fuel while requesting extended hours of operation — after community members complained over the convenience store’s contribution to neighborhood crime.
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| Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm |“We build too many walls and not enough bridges,” quoth Sir Isaac Newton. But it gets a little complicated when the wall you are building is also along a beloved bridge and river, and the construction is all unfolding in a historic district.
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| Mar 13, 2024 12:57 pm |Spaced out on the walls of Time A Tell, a clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave., are black-and-white photos. Each shows a celebrated rap artist — Baby Money, DThang, Cuban Doll, Skilla Baby, and Babyfxce E — wearing Time A Tell clothing made by Joshua McCown, the shop’s 20-year-old owner.
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| Mar 12, 2024 1:39 pm |Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread?
“We’re gonna learn,” Eddie Eckhaus said, “right now.”
Scientologists will have to pay taxes after sitting on plans to resurrect Ron Hubbard’s spirit inside the deteriorating doors of a former furniture store — now that the city revoked the church’s tax-exempt status.
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Hot Pot is the name and aim of Hu Ping-Dolph’s latest New Haven revelation: a sit-down soup joint at 68 Whitney Ave. offering a steamy reprieve from the cold season.
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Need a spot to store lots of steel rods or planks of wood?
Then you’re in luck, because the New Haven Port Authority has now bought more than three acres of previously state-owned land in the city’s industrial waterfront district — and is looking to lease to companies needing a place to put their shipped-in goods.
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| Mar 6, 2024 12:30 pm |Quick: Name the New Haven location where a platinum-selling Grammy-nominated hip hop superstar and coffee entrepreneur joined an award-winning cupcake maker, an up-and-coming cigar collective, and a community-minded lemonade company.
That was Dwight Street’s Cambria Hotel last week, where area entrepreneurs showcased their wares before 100 people in a coffee-tasting event featuring Kiss Cafe and sponsored by Gorilla Lemonade in celebration of Black History Month.
Continue reading ‘Cigars, Cupcakes & Lemonade: Black Entrepreneurship On Display’
A local champion of entrepreneurial equity has been chosen to to lead the New Haven-focused “Center for Inclusive Growth” that Yale promised to build in 2021 — and now will start trying to define two years later.
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| Feb 28, 2024 9:34 am |A new art gallery is coming to the Lab at ConnCORP, on Newhall. The Orchid Gallery, organized by niko w. okoro of the bldg fund, is born out of conversations with area artists, with the goals of making a space for Black and Brown artists in the community to be seen and heard, supporting them in their professional development, and making a place where artists can come together.
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City Plan commissioners killed a request to turn a dilapidated former factory serving as local artist studios into storage units — after deciding the development sounded like “dead space.”
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| Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm |Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
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| Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm |Mujahid Mohammed had a dream. So did Dannie Beverly. And Donald Moody. It was, as it turned out, the same dream.
“All three of us did time in prison, and we wanted to come up with something for the community, a platform to give back, and that was starting our own business,” said Mohammed on a recent afternoon at Made in Greenwood.
A developer has revived the idea of building a hotel, rather than apartments, on the vacant lot that once housed Webster Bank. The city gave him some extra time to decide.
Continue reading ‘Hotel Might Come To Ex-Webster Lot After All’
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allocated a $2.5 million grant to help fund a new terminal at Tweed airport.
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| Feb 15, 2024 12:40 pm |A plan to build affordable housing for veterans has been discharged due to a bad parking design.
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| Feb 14, 2024 4:42 pm |The International Festival of Arts and Ideas has received a federal grant for $45,000 to support two of its events this June — adding to a larger pot of federal support for the organization as it lays out its lineup for the summer and charts its path forward as an organization for this year and beyond.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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| Feb 13, 2024 2:17 pm |In advance of Valentine’s Day, city officials gathered outside “Sweet Mary’s Bake Shop” and called on consumers to open their hearts (read, “wallets”) and shop local in support of their city.
I visited each of the Court Street small businesses courted by politicians at the event and made my own wish list.
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| Feb 5, 2024 1:29 pm |In December, Michelle Robinson graduated from the city’s program for new entrepreneurs. Last week, she and her husband Jazz Stair celebrated the grand opening of WaveMAX, their new laundromat in Quinnipiac Meadows.
An abandoned lighting manufacturing hub will soon transform into 150 below-market apartments a block from Union Station, if a development plan comes to fruition.
As Science Park developers presented renderings of a housing complex soon to rise on Winchester Ave., Carlota Clark wondered if one of the 283 apartments would someday be hers.
State officials stumbled across the littered grounds leading up to English Station to announce a lawsuit filed on the same grounds as other failed threats against United Illuminating — seeking to re-energize the company’s long-delayed remediation of the site.
Mother Juniper frontwoman Lindsay Skedgell unplugged from her Vox AC15 and tuned into Zoom from a “vacant” ex-factory building to send developers a message: 91 Shelton is far from empty.
Skedgell was among dozens of artists who banded together to flood the City Plan Commission’s Zoom room after hearing earlier that day that their studio space, a five-story former factory building at 91 Shelton Ave., is slated for sale to a self-storage company.
Continue reading ‘91 Shelton Studios Smash Storage Space Sale’