Warehouses going up in East Hartford as other buildings set for demolition

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, East Hartford’s residents face few choices when it comes to shopping, updated housing or […]

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Workers were pouring 4 million pounds of concrete when New Haven building collapsed, official says

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 St. remain hospitalized, according to a spokesperson for Yale New Haven Hospital. […]

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Bridgeport’s former ‘Mt. Trashmore’ site on cusp of green transformation

Deborah Sims, like Newton, also attended the rallies at Mount Trashmore. Now she and the coalition she helped form are on the cusp of turning the municipally-owned site across from Johnsons Creek, bordered by Central Avenue, Trowel Street and Suggetts Lane, into an agricultural and wellness campus. The new name? Mount Growmore. On Monday Bridgeport’s […]

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Plowing through rough seas toward offshore wind

On May 19 the cargo ship Claude A. Desgagnes arrived from Denmark to a State Pier in New London. It carried both the first components for offshore wind turbine construction and the promising possibilities that this will become a major new industry, benefiting the region and state while combating climate change. The turbine parts are […]

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National Coast Guard Museum second phase set to go to bid

The National Coast Guard Museum Association announced last week it is ready to go to bid this week on the work to create the foundation for the more than 80,000-square-foot, six-story museum that will occupy a prominent place on the city’s waterfront. The upcoming work will include the installation of about 240 micropiles, essentially rods […]

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Behind the scenes of the Yale Peabody Museum as renovations enter final phas

The Yale Peabody Museum building renovations are nearly done. For the next year, museum curators, staff and construction personnel will put the final touches on the building and re-install exhibits for the reopening in 2024. The lobby entrance, once a narrow gothic arch congested by school groups has been widened. A new freight elevator, rated […]

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Debt ceiling deal would speed environmental permitting

President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck an agreement late Saturday to suspend the debt ceiling for two years. The result of their talks, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, will cut $136 billion in federal spending and avert a default, and most notably for the nation’s civil contractors, includes measures to accelerate environmental […]

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Torrington mining operation gets permit renewal, with conditions to address neighbors’ complaints

Haynes and O&G were granted another two-year mining permit by the Planning & Zoning Commission, but with conditions aimed to address complaints from neighbors about noise and idling vehicles. The Haynes materials quarry, a mining operation partnership with O&G Industries, has been running for more than 20 years, with trucks and machinery running from 7 […]

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