Business/ Economic Development

Prodigy Designer, 20, Turns Heads Worldwide

by | Mar 13, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (3)

Joshua McCown.

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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Blighted Scientology Building Returned To Tax Rolls

by | Mar 8, 2024 2:28 pm | Comments (42)

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No sign of "religious" activity: Assessor Pullen (left); portions of the blighted Scientology building.

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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Port Authority Picks Up New Properties

by | Mar 7, 2024 2:46 pm | Comments (22)

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Port Authority's Sally Kruse: Planning for harbor growth.

Ghost ships ahoy? A foggy look at the port district on Wednesday from the Tomlinson Bridge.

Steel rods on Stiles Street.

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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Cigars, Cupcakes & Lemonade: Black Entrepreneurship On Display

by | Mar 6, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (0)

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Hip-hop superstar Jadakiss joins the party.

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.

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Orchid Gallery Prepares For Inaugural Show

by | Feb 28, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (2)

niko w. okoro and Erik Clemons.

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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New Biz, Made in Greenwood

by | Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (0)

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Co-owners Donald Moody and Mujahid Mohammed with Dannie Beverly of Made in Greenwood smoke shop.

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.

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Hotel Might Come To Ex-Webster Lot After All

by and | Feb 16, 2024 2:54 pm | Comments (25)

Builder Clay Fowler (at center): Market's back, but construction costs rose too.

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The vacant lot where a hotel is slated to rise.

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.

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Fed Grant Connects A&I To LA, Ukraine

by | Feb 14, 2024 4:42 pm | Comments (4)

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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Congressional staffer Lou Mangini, fest chief Shelley Quiala, and A&I staff at Wednesday's announcement.

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.

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"Ultrafine" Pollution Enters Tweed Debate

by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)

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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.

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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City Woos "I LUV U" Shoppers

by | Feb 13, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (0)

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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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Will She Live In "Winchester Green"?

by | Feb 1, 2024 12:46 pm | Comments (53)

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Carlota Clark at Wednesday evening's open house at Science Park.

A rendering from Pine's presentation: Apartments up to $4,500 a month on Winchester Ave.

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.

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State Sues UI For Power Plant Passivity

by | Jan 29, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (42)

"Just look at this place": State Attorney General Tong, Mayor Elicker, State Sen. Looney, and DEEP Commissioner Dykes on Monday.

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.

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91 Shelton Studios Smash Storage Space Sale

by | Jan 25, 2024 4:15 pm | Comments (21)

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Kennies Earl: Not "invisible."

Mother Juniper members Lindsay Skedgell and Christian Abbott: Jamming conversion plans.

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.

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