Concerns arise as QU looks to designate its Hamden campus as planned development district

by Joelyn Leon | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorized

The Planning and Zoning Commission took issue with the zoning process and the area Quinnipiac University wants to designate as a planned development district, a zone change the legislative body itself passed in July. The public hearing portion for the PDD designation...

Connecticut Children’s proposed, $280 million expansion would double size of hospital. Here’s what it would look like.

by Joelyn Leon | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized

An ambitious, $280 million expansion of Connecticut Children’s in Hartford that would roughly double the size of the hospital could be connected to a new parking garage across Washington Street via a pedestrian skywalk. The plans for a parking garage, near the...

Glenbrook Residents Question Mayor’s Math for Rehabbing Community Center in Stamford

by Joelyn Leon | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized

Mayor Caroline Simmons’ first public meeting with Glenbrook residents opposed to her plan to sell their community center to an affordable housing developer has them fact-checking her information. Simmons repeated during Wednesday’s meeting with residents what she has...

New state board allocates $76.4M for economic development; Middletown, New Haven, Waterbury big winners

by Joelyn Leon | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized

Middletown is in line for $12 million to fund its “Return to the Riverbend” plan, an effort to make better connections with parkland and redevelop industrial, commercial and waste treatment sites along the Connecticut River. Waterbury is teed up to get $10...

Shelton receives $240K in CT grants for downtown projects

by Joelyn Leon | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized

Shelton has received two Small Town Economic Assistance Program, or STEAP, grants totaling $240,000 — with $120,000 going toward the extension of the Housatonic Riverwalk on Canal Street and $120,000 toward creation of Shelton Canal Lock Park. These grants were among...