Hartford’s Bushnell South project takes big step forward with purchase of large parking lot

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized

Norwalk-based Spinnaker Real Estate Partners exercised its option on Tuesday to buy a 90,000-square-foot parking lot at Capitol Avenue and Hudson Street for $3.25 million, according to the Capital Region Development Authority. The authority voted in January to loan...

Work on New Haven’s State Street won’t cause traffic nightmares, city engineer says

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized

City Engineer Giovanni Zinn says the project to make a nine-block stretch of lower State Street more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly won’t involve street closures and will ultimately improve traffic and safety. The $6.7 million project, partially funded through...

Major Connecticut River bridge to get $30 million work. Your commute may be affected

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized

The state is preparing for a $30 million refurbishment of the Bissell Bridge, a key traffic link between I-84 and I-91 north of Hartford. Precise construction plans won’t be known until engineers do final designs in 2025, but the state department of transportation is...

Old Lyme Quarry Owner Ordered to Cease Unpermitted Work Along Three Mile River

by Joelyn Leon | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized

After a discussion of unpermitted work at a quarry that lacked proper erosion protection along Three Mile River, the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission ordered the property owner to cease all work and to appear at a show cause hearing on March 7. Ron Swaney,...

New Haven begins reconnecting Wooster Square, Downtown, the Hill with $6.7 million State Street redesign

by Joelyn Leon | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized

Work has begun on a $6.7 million State Street redesign project to transform a nine-block stretch of lower State Street and “knit back together” areas of the city that were chopped up by urban renewal, city and state officials said Tuesday. The...

Proposed Trumbull veterans center gets traffic OK, bids should go out soon

by Joelyn Leon | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized

Now that a traffic study has been approved by the town’s police commission, plans for the long-awaited Veterans and First Responders Center will go out to bid — and construction could break ground by April, officials say. “They are two separate bid packages but...