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Sickle Cell Awareness Advocate Pays Wall Street A Visit

by | Feb 27, 2023 4:05 pm | Comments (0)

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James Rawlings, visiting Wall Street for Founders Day.

With his feather-adorned Stetson hat firmly on his head, James Rawlings visited the New York Stock Exchange for a Founders Day” celebration of successful Black businesspeople — and returned to New Haven fired up about how to inspire a next generation of corporate leaders and healthcare advocates.

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145 Dwight Apts Sold For $34.6M

by | Nov 17, 2022 12:47 pm | Comments (7)

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Buyers Josef and Jacob Feldman of MOD Equities: Now the owners of 145 more Dwight neighborhood apts.

A New York-based landlord team that has long been active in New Haven’s real estate market added 145 more apartments to its local portfolio — in part by paying twice as much as the city-appraised value for a recently built Howe Street luxury apartment complex.

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Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients

by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)

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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.

New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard. 

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"Abstinence," Not Methadone, Set For CVS Site

by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)

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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.

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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.

The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.

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Neuroscience Center Moves Ahead

by | Aug 16, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (15)

Site work underway at Orchard and George.

Sign posted at site of future neuroscience center.

After more than two years of pandemic-induced delays, Yale New Haven Hospital has revived its neuroscience center development plans — with construction vehicles now on site at the southern end of the St. Raphael’s campus, and local building permits pulled for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical-center-expansion work soon to come.

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Graduate Hotel Union Ratifies 1st Contract

by | Jul 28, 2022 8:42 pm | Comments (20)

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Local 217's Josh Stanley with Graduate hotel worker Jacqueline Sims.

The Graduate New Haven hotel on Chapel St.

Graduate New Haven hotel employees, union organizers, and labor-friendly politicians celebrated the city’s first new hotel worker union in a quarter century by praising an unexpected ally — an employer that voluntarily chose to recognize and negotiate, rather than fight.

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Property Sales Roundup: Pike Sells Former "Cage" For $3.3M; Mandy Refinances, Expands

by | Jun 22, 2022 2:30 pm | Comments (2)

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New property manager Joe Katz at 76 Sherman Ave.: "Things look fine."

A 22-unit Sherman Avenue apartment complex once known as The Cage” has changed hands for $3.3 million — nearly twice the amount its former landlord paid for the property seven years ago.

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