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A new hotel on Park St.? Not so fast...
Page 1 of 33 of a New Haven Rising-letterhead petition sent to the City Plan Department about the planned hotel.
A Pennsylvania-based developer’s plan to build a 150-room Marriott Residence Inn on Park Street hit a roadblock Wednesday night — as the City Plan Commission pushed off taking a final vote, and opted instead to hold a public hearing on the project, in response to parking and gentrification concerns raised by the neighborhood’s alder.
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Jun 13, 2025 2:13 pm
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On Munson St.: To the right, to be demolished; to the left, to be preserved.
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At Thursday's Winchester factory demo meeting.
Science Park’s redevelopers have selected a demolition contractor — and have applied for a relevant city permit — as they move forward with plans to start knocking down the remaining vacant, toxic former Winchester Repeating Arms factory buildings this summer.
A rendering of the proposed Marriott Residence Inn.
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Alder Douglass: “I’d prefer affordable housing.”
An abandoned laundromat, vacant healthcare building, and pair of surface parking lots on Park Street could turn into a 150-room Marriott Residence Inn.
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Jun 6, 2025 2:15 pm
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Now that's a party, after 31 years at 827 Chapel.
Beauty Plus founder Mel Hylton (center) with Gale Hylton-Matthews, Rudy Hylton, and Pastor Kevin Hardy.
After Denise Rogers’ husband died of Covid in May 2020, she made it a practice to stop in at Beauty Plus on lower Chapel. Not so much to buy makeup or skin creams or hair care products, but to talk with co-owner and founder Mel Hylton.
“Miss Mel just has always been there for me,” said Rogers, at a rousing retirement party outside Beauty Plus, a beauty supply store which has now closed its doors after 31 years downtown.
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May 20, 2025 8:00 pm
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Karla Tejeda Arias, Malby Rojas, and baby Leo pose in their new store.
The ribbon is cut! Featuring Justin Elicker, Thea Buxbaum, Elizabeth Donius, Katya Vetrov, and Malby Rojas.
“Toast a slice with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt,” Malby Rojas told a small group of customers when explaining how best to eat her signature country sourdough bread.
She offered that advice at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday marking the launch of two Westville businesses: Malby’s Pastries and its Whalley Avenue neighbor, Inkberry Art Shop.
Rigueur (right) embraces a ConnCORP employee at April 16 steel-signing ceremony.
The real estate developer and business-boosting agency ConnCORP has tapped a business and economic strategist to be its president, with the hope of strengthening its internal operations and bringing greater visibility to its projects.
Redeveloper Jake Pine: This demolition will be done right.
Highville Principal Che Dawson: Will this endanger kids?
275 Winchester, to come down starting this summer.
Demolition of the remaining vacant, toxic former Winchester Repeating Arms factory buildings near Munson and Mansfield Streets is slated to begin this summer.
The cleanup and teardown project should take roughly a year to complete — and will ultimately lead to the construction of new housing or lab/office space in Science Park.
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CEO Gilles Tamagnan cuts the ribbon for XingImaging's new research facilities.
The NeuroExplorer PET scanner -- one of three in the world.
In the basement of 55 Church St. sits one of just three NeuroExplorer PET scanners in the world. Capable of producing images with significantly better resolution and sensitivity than its 20-year-old predecessor, the High Resolution Research Tomograph, the machine is the crown jewel of XingImaging’s new research facility inside the Elm City Bioscience Center.
XingImaging hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday afternoon to mark the official opening of its 24,000-square-foot research space at the downtown lab and office building — and to celebrate the work it plans to do with the help of that basement super-camera, especially in regards to better understanding Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Design of the new lab-and-office building that might now not be built.
The site of New Haven’s next planned biosciences office and lab tower will remain an empty lot for now — as Yale pulls back its biotech investments in light of possible federal funding cuts.
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Does the Annex need another one of these?
Attorney Herbst: This complies with local zoning.
A desolate, industrial stretch of land in the Annex is now the site of a billboard dispute — as two neighboring property owners jockey for position to determine who will get to show ads to highway drivers.
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Apr 16, 2025 5:11 pm
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ConnCORP leaders, including Erik Clemons and Carlton Highsmith, celebrate the final beam...
... which bears Kim Harris's signature among many others, as Nina Silva photographed.
As the final beam of ConnCAT’s future health-job-childcare hub rose on Dixwell Avenue, Kim Harris and Julia Ficklin each thought of generations past and generations to come.
For Ficklin, that beam meant a longtime dream of her late husband, Alder Tom Ficklin, clicking into place.
For Harris, it meant a trove of resources for the children she teaches starting to materialize.
91 Diner owner Stavros Karadimos with his son, decades ago.
On its last day, the diner's door "kept revolving" with customers saying goodbye.
“I feel like I’m grieving a death,” said Georgette Ieraci, as she described the feeling of saying goodbye to the Middletown Avenue diner her family opened and ran for 38 years.
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Lisette Vega: Diversity helps make America great.
Lisette Vega arrived at a “Hispanic Business Excellence” celebration with a vision of starting her own international trade business one day — and an ear open for advice.
ConnCORP's Ian Williams, with ConnCAT's Steve Driffin: This redevelopment project represents "a total transformation" of the corridor.
At work on Monday.
Nearby, underground, in the Construction Academy's new classroom.
As a construction crew worked to lay the foundation for “ConnCAT Place on Dixwell,” redevelopers behind the neighborhood-transforming effort gathered in an underground classroom a few hundred feet away to lay the foundation for a more diverse, locally rooted construction workforce.
Furlow (at mic): “This is one step towards a more healthy and vibrant city.”
New Haven officially has room for one last smoke shop — which will have to obtain a municipal license, alongside all of the city’s 212 existing tobacco retailers — thanks to new zoning and public health regulations passed by the Board of Alders.
Rendering of 410 Orchard St., one of the two new developments to be built by GDDC.
City officials, state lawmakers, and local nonprofit leaders gathered at the corner of Edgewood and Orchard Thursday morning to celebrate a $9 million state boost to various affordable housing developments across town.
