by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Northern Middlesex YMCA is getting closer to raising the millions it needs to renovate its historic building, transforming it into a modern, state-of-the-art community center. So far, the All Together Better campaign has garnered about $15 million in state, local...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Time is running out to save the Timex Group headquarters, considered by some as a gem of 21st-century corporate architecture but by others, a property that has left a small western Connecticut town divided over its place in future economic development. In the face of...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
About a decade ago, when Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess was first elected to office, one of the biggest complaints he heard from residents was on the condition of the roads. The Board of Mayor and Burgesses approved at its March 4 meeting a modified five-year...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A long-awaited report on the future of the city school system’s aging facilities recommends the district shutter seven school buildings, construct four new ones and perform major renovations on eight others. Pat Gallagher, a community planner with MP Planning Group,...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A plan to transform much of East Hartford’s aging Founders Plaza office park into about 1,000 apartments mixed with commercial development could get a big infusion of funding through the property taxes the project generates. The legislature’s Planning and Development...
by Joelyn Leon | Mar 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 5 approved a plan by IJ Group LLC, controlled by Norwalk developer Jason Milligan, according to the city’s principal planner Bryan Baker. A narrow five-story office building currently sits atop an expansive...
