by Joelyn Leon | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Almeida and the New Haven Fire Department rescue company he oversees faced that challenge on Friday afternoon after an apartment building under construction on Lafayette Street partially collapsed. They moved fast, but carefully, amid danger to themselves to save the...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Amid strong opposition from the public, members of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission continued a public hearing regarding a special exception request to construct an 8,100-square-foot trucking terminal with 10 loading docks in a densely populated, residential...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Local, state and federal officials gathered in Waterbury Monday morning to celebrate $8.8 million in brownfield cleanup funds for Connecticut. Waterbury is pushing hard to cross properties off its list of brownfields. The 12-year-administration of Mayor Neil O’Leary...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
An isolated corner of downtown Hartford that struggled for decades to be known for more than its dusty parking lots appeared finally to have something going for it: a popular minor league ballpark and brisk leasing of the first of as many as 1,000 apartments. The city...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Built-out and pocked with abandoned buildings and tattered shopping plazas, East Hartford has long suffered from a lack of interest by developers in building anything new within its 18 square miles. With per-capita income among the state’s lowest at about $32,000,...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Workers were pouring 4 million pounds of concrete when a building under construction on Lafayette Street collapsed Friday, injuring eight, an official said. As of Saturday afternoon, four of the workers who were rescued at the scene of the collapse at 188 Lafayette...
