by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Complaining of decades of decay at the Silver Lane Plaza, a series of East Hartford residents on Friday praised town government’s progress toward acquiring the property through eminent domain. A town panel voted unanimously Thursday night to pursue seizing the...
by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fifteen years after the city imploded the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, construction of the first of three buildings in Phase 1 of the site’s redevelopment — to be known as “Square 10” — is about to begin, Mayor Justin Elicker and the...
by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
The latest stop on the city’s journey to build a $164 million upper school of the future on a hilltop overlooking Kenosia Avenue is to go back to the way zoning was 40 years ago when the biggest thing on the west side was the Danbury Fair. Before the city can retrofit...
by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Once used as open sewers for manufacturing spoils and human waste, Connecticut’s long-abused rivers have recovered much of their past allure following stricter environmental laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s, accompanied by the retreat of large-scale manufacturing...
by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
CRDA Executive Director Michael Freimuth recently told his board — which oversees the XL Center on behalf of the city of Hartford — that Oak View Group (OVG) is interested in a deal that could see the company putting much of its own funding into the XL Center. OVG...
by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
A plan to renovate the shopping plaza, which now has multiple vacant storefronts, including one previously occupied by Starbucks, and another that formerly housed Porricelli’s Food Mart, has received support from many of the businesses that currently occupy Trumbull...