The town’s plan and zoning commission on Tuesday approved Amazon’s plan to open a delivery station in the former Nabisco warehouse at 107 Eastern Blvd., a town official confirmed Wednesday morning. Amazon will reconfigure the 104,000-square-foot building and expand the parking lot. Winstanley Enterprises acquired the 12.5 acre property in Sept. 2020 for $4.4 million, […]
In a 6-0 vote following a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved a special-permit modification allowing EB to extend construction hours from the current 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday to 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, according to City Planner Leslie […]
“COVID threw us all off the balance beam this past year,” Mike Freimuth, the executive director of the Capital Region Development Authority, said last week. “In fact, the XL’s absence over this last year has certainly been felt in downtown energy, hotel, restaurant and bar trade and made clearer the real adverse impact of losing […]
Officials with Arvinas announced Tuesday the company has signed a 10 year-lease for three of the 10 floors in the building, or about one-third of the space in the 500,000-square foot-building. Massachusetts-based Winstanley Enterprises is developing the multi-tenant project, with construction scheduled to get underway by the end of June, according to company officials. Arvinas […]
“The reality is that today, in order to get a decent job, you need some degree or credential or skill or trade past high school. That’s a fact of our economy. You saw the folks that got hurt most during the pandemic were those who were in the lower skill, lower wage jobs,” said U.S. […]
This week, the city’s downtown committee discussed a proposal for a 30,000-square-foot office building to be constructed at the corner of Hope and Riverside streets on a currently vacant parcel. When approved, the plan next goes to the economic and community development committee with plans for a letter of intent to be signed by the […]
As the state begins to return to a semblance of normalcy, New Britain’s Energy and Innovation Park project at the former Stanley Black & Decker site will also be coming back to life. The estimated $1 billion energy and data center project began construction late 2019. But when the pandemic happened, the project took a […]
In many places, locals are pushing back, saying that forests and farmlands should not be sacrificed in the fight against climate change. Local activists say they support clean energy, but they want state regulators to be more thoughtful about where to allow development. The activists would like to see more solar projects on rooftops and […]
City officials insist ground will be broken this year in the South End on a new Bassick High School, despite advice from one state agency to hold off until the completion of a massive flood mitigation project in that same neighborhood. Resilient Bridgeport is a $52 million, federally-funded, state-implemented effort to fortify the South End […]
