Come Groove With New Business Incubator -- The Grove |
| (9/1/2010) The Grove, a coworking and collaborative space, is now open and located at 71 Orange St. The Grove is a new kind of space that encourages and supports people in their work and the development of new ideas that are solving the social, environmental, economic, and urban problems we face today.The Grove provides all the technical amenities you and your organization need to function as well as hosting a creative, idea-rich environment that ...
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Tech firm earnings up 116% in 2Q |
| (8/13/2010) (From New Haven Register)NEW HAVEN — Higher One Holdings Inc. Thursday reported second-quarter revenue of $26.9 million, up 116 percent from $12.5 million during the same period in 2009.Company officials attributed the year-over-year revenue growth primarily to an increase in the number of OneAccounts, an increase in activity per OneAccount, and the addition of the results of the sale of a subsidiary, Higher One Payments Inc. in the fourth quarter of 2009.Higher One is based at Science ...
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Move-in day |
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| (8/3/2010) (from New Haven Register)NEW HAVEN — Dr. Anees Chagpar, meet 360 State Street.The executive director of the Breast Center at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, Chagpar needs a place to live when she moves here from Louisville, Ky.A gleaming, $190 million, 32-story residential tower — the city’s largest residential development in years and its second-tallest building — could be the place.The 500-unit building’s first tenants moved in Saturday as Chagpar toured one of the 58 two-bedroom ...
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Achillion sees promise in anti-HCV treatment |
| (7/29/2010) (From hartfordbusiness.com)New Haven drug developer Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is preparing clinical testing of a compound that it says could be a promising treatment with other drugs in its stable against the hepatitis C virus (HCV).Achillion said its ACH-2928 targets the specific genetic protein (NS5A) that HCV needs to replicate itself.Achillion plans to begin clinical testing of the ACH-2928 compound in combination with other protease inhibitors it is developing to attack HCV, ...
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New Haven Lab Is an Architectural Experiment |
| (7/29/2010) (from The Wall Street Journal)NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Laboratories don't usually stand out as works of architecture; most are tucked out of sight. The new Park Street Clinical Laboratory in New Haven, however, is something else entirely—a building that not only aids medical diagnoses but is a quite visible attempt to heal longstanding physical and psychological rifts in the surrounding community. The latest addition to the Yale-New Haven Hospital complex—one of the most respected and heavily used ...
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Near Yale, a 32-Story Gamble Rises in New Haven |
| (7/27/2010) (From New York Times, 7/27/10)NEW HAVEN — This city of 123,000 has long struggled to reconcile its two faces: The intellectual oasis of Yale University and the upscale area it has spawned, and a more turbulent side that includes the 1970 Black Panther trials, a recent Supreme Court ruling that white firefighters had been unfairly denied promotions because of their race and crime that still plagues parts of the city. Bruce R. Becker, the president of Becker & Becker, designed and developed ...
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Yale scientists awarded $2.5M for work |
| (7/23/2010) (From New Haven Register)NEW HAVEN — Haifan Lin, director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, plans to use a $2.5 million prize he won Thursday to study the 60,000 tiny genes he discovered in human cells, each of them only one-hundredth the size of our “normal” genes.These tiny genes actually control the expression of the 30,000 genes that make up our DNA. “They’re small but mighty,” Lin said.Lin and Tamas Horvath, chairman of comparative medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, learned Thursday ...
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RELOADING: Developer to air plans for old Winchester factory in New Haven |
| (7/21/2010) (From New Haven Register, July 21, 2010)NEW HAVEN — Where others see broken windows and a dilapidated reminder of a past industrial era, Carter Winstanley sees the Parthenon.“Our business is to tear apart old buildings. I don’t think I have ever seen a building where the foundation goes down 15 feet and sits on top of bedrock. ... The Parthenon is built that way,” Winstanley said admiringly of the Winchester Repeating Arms plant as he compared it to the ancient Greek temple.The turn-of-the-20th-century ...
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Artifacts from New Haven Arena coming back... |
| (7/12/2010) (from New Haven Register)Stored away for decades, artifacts from New Haven Arena coming backNEW HAVEN — Paul Sandella remembers the yellow-brick-lined interior, the smoke filled stands, the fights and just the sheer excitement of the place.Paul, his brother, Rick, and his dad were among the loyal fans of the New Haven Blades hockey team that played at the New Haven Arena in the early 1970s, with the family heading in from Wallingford for those twice-weekly home games.After it ...
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New Haven Featured in Boston Magazine |
| (7/10/2010) The attached is featured in Boston Magazine in July 2010.
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Higher One’s Staying In Town |
| (7/2/2010) (from New Haven Independent)by Melissa Bailey | Jul 2, 2010Fresh off of a successful stock exchange debut, New Haven’s fast-growing financial services company is keeping 170 jobs in the city—and helping give new life to a long-abandoned gun factory. Higher One, which made $36 million by going public on the New York Stock Exchange last month, will be the first tenants at 275 Winchester Ave. when the iconic former Winchester Repeating Arms factory building is redeveloped into office space, ...
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THE BOURSE -- Generous Next Gen Coworking Space |
| (6/25/2010) THE BOURSE. Generous Next Gen Coworking Space.Opening Very Soon!839 Chapel StreetNew Haven, CT 06510Downtown New Haven near Yale, The New Haven Green, coffee, sushi, bike center, pilates, yoga, rolfing, night life, and all your friends and associates. Bring your laptop and cell phone and synergize with like-minded creative energy in wide open urban loft environment. Day rates, night rates, month rates, dedicated workspace and "hotdesk" flexibility. Bounce ideas, create your own unique ...
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Bucking a Trend in New Haven |
| (6/23/2010) Bucking a Trend in New HavenBy LISA PREVOST (New York Times)NEW HAVEN JIM LEVINSOHN and his wife, Kirsten, made their first offer on a house near the Yale University campus here without ever having visited it. This was last year, and they were living temporarily in Cape Town, South Africa. They sized up the spacious colonial via a virtual tour recorded by friends. Their resulting offer was generous enough that they figured a deal was in the offing. They were wrong. “We were kind ...
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New Haven - A Resurgent City |
| (6/23/2010) Federal Reserve report puts New Haven in resurgent city category. Check out report at: Lessons From Resurgent Cities
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Tax Credits for Angel Investors |
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| (6/23/2010) Tax Credits for Angel Investors Will Become Available on July 1, 2010On May 6, 2010, Governor Jodi Rell signed into law a new tax credit for “angel investors” who invest in Connecticut start-ups. The new law authorizes personal income tax credits for individuals who, along with other angel investors in the investor group, invest at least $100,000 in Connecticut start-up businesses in specified sectors. The credit equals 25% of the cash investment, up to $250,000. For a complete analysis of ...
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Medical device company moving to Elm City |
| (6/18/2010) (From the New Haven Register)EpiEP Inc., a medical device company in Charlottesville, Va., plans to move its headquarters to New Haven by mid-July.Connecticut Innovations, a quasi-public agency that invests in technology companies, awarded $1 million to EpiEP. The capital was provided through CI’s Eli Whitney Fund and is part of a $1.5 million round of funding, also involving LaunchCapital and individual investors.“We are delighted to establish our headquarters in Connecticut and forge ...
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Higher One Prices Its Initial Public Offering |
| (6/17/2010) New Haven, CT - June 17– Higher One Holdings, Inc. (“Higher One”) announced yesterday that it has priced its initial public offering of 9,000,000 shares of common stock, at $12 per share. Of the shares being offered, 3,103,822 shares are being sold by the company and 5,896,178 shares are being sold by certain stockholders. Higher One’s shares will begin trading today, June 17, 2010, on The New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ONE.” The underwriters have a 30-day option to ...
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Medical Device Company Moving Headquarters from Virginia to Connecticut |
| (6/17/2010) EpiEP Inc. Gets $1 Million State Technology InvestmentFrom Connecticut InnovationsGov. M. Jodi Rell today announced that a medical device company moving its headquarters from Virginia to Connecticut this summer has received a $1 million state technology investment.The Governor said EpiEP Inc., which is developing novel technology in the treatment of heart disease, received the funding from Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state's quasi-public agency responsible for technology investing ...
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New Haven's Long Wharf gets tasty new tenant |
| (6/17/2010) By Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics Editormoleary@newhavenregister.comNEW HAVEN — They have been partying down on Sargent Drive for a few weeks now, and Wednesday they officially cut the ribbon for a “sweet” addition to the list of city businesses.Gelato Giuliana, which serves 500 small outlets in Connecticut and New York, as well as Whole Foods and Stew Leonard’s, has moved its production facility of the Italian-style frozen dessert from Wallingford to the Long Wharf area.Giuliana ...
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CREATIVE CAPITALISTS: Not the Retiring Type |
| (6/7/2010) (from Conntact.com)June 7, 2010 by Karen SingerA distaff developer with a radical vision for the QuinnipiacFereshteh Bekhrad is spending her "retirement" working eight to ten hours a day on a project to revitalize a part of Fair Haven overlooking both sides of the Quinnipiac River near the Grand Avenue Bridge. "I believe we have a real jewel here, the best hidden jewel of New England," says the Iranian-born architect and developer, who is financing her Oyster Harbor Village project ...
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Jobs Bill Called Good Job |
| (6/7/2010) {from Conntact.com)Monday, 07 June 2010 by Felicia HunterThe new jobs bill passed by the state legislature and signed into law last month will enable Connecticut to be competitive in the global economy by supporting existing businesses, attracting new ones, and shoring up the statewide workforce to meet specific needs of employers, according to a prominent business leader who helped shape the measure. "Many of the elements of the bill are things people have been working on for many years," ...
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A Festival That Caters to Body and Mind |
EDGY Lucinda Childs’s “Dance” is part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas -- photo by Sally Cohn (source, New York Times, June 3, 2010)
| (6/3/2010) (From The New York Times)By ANITA GATESYOU could hear Philip Glass play piano solos next Sunday night at Sprague Memorial Hall in New Haven. You could see Conor Lovett (of Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland) do “Moby-Dick” as a one-man show at the Long Wharf Theater the following week. You could, on various days, take a tour of artworks by Connecticut’s own Sol LeWitt. And on June 19, on New Haven Green, you could see a free concert by the Blind Boys of Alabama. This year’s International ...
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Covidien Moves Ahead |
| (6/2/2010) from The Hartford Courant(Full story link below)Surgical Strategy: Investment In Innovation Pays Off For CovidienBy MARA LEEWhen Covidien spun off from the implosion of Tyco International in 2007, it gained more than a new name unconnected to the disgraced Tyco CEO's $6,000 shower curtain, $2 million birthday party and other ill-gotten perks.Covidien's 3,400 workers in Connecticut design, make and market surgical devices, particularly instruments used in laparoscopic surgery that ...
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The wisdom of crowdsourcing |
| (6/1/2010) (from guardian.co.uk)The story was routine – but not the way it was reported.Earlier this year the New Haven Independent, a non-profit community website, published an article about "the ugliest storefront on Chapel Street".Members of the public saw an opportunity to push for improvements to a former downtown tattoo parlour, which was being reopened as an AT&T store. The facade, in particular, was considered an eyesore. The Independent reported that it was "pitch black and has a texture ...
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360 State Street Gets Green Fuel Cell |
| (5/28/2010) from WTNH.comBy: Keith Kountz New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - A 'green' fuel cell arrived at the 360 State Street tower construction project in New Haven Thursday.The new fuel cell is 400 kilowatts features 'green technology' that will provide almost 100 percent of the building's energy needs. It marks the first time a fuel cell is being used in a residential building of this size."Fuel cells provide the energy trifecta; distribute generation, combined heat and power and homegrown innovation," ...
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Rents rise as vacant space dips |
| (5/13/2010) (from New Haven Register, full article link below)By Cara Baruzzi, Register Business EditorNEW HAVEN — The amount of vacant office space in the city fell to 10.7 percent in the first quarter, down from 13.4 percent a year earlier, and the scarcity of available space has prompted some landlords to start raising rents, according to the latest report by Colliers Dow & Condon.“It surprises me that it took as long as it did for rental rates to firm up,” said John Keogh, senior broker at Colliers ...
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Office Rents Bloom with Spring |
| (5/10/2010) (from conntact.com)NEW HAVEN - Office rents are starting to rise in the Elm City, amid a shrinking inventory of available space, and new office construction is on the horizon. In his New Haven Office Market Report for the first quarter of 2010, John Keogh of Colliers Dow & Condon reports that Keith Mahler, who now has control of 59 Elm Street, is asking $21.50 per square foot plus electric for space in the Class B building, up from $17.50. In late 2009, the New Boston Fund, owner of 545 Long ...
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State Ready To Cut Red Tape |
| (5/10/2010) (from hartfordbusiness.com)By Greg Bordonaro In possibly the biggest legislative victory for businesses this session, state lawmakers passed sweeping regulatory reform that aims to streamline the permitting process across state agencies. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, received bipartisan support and is intended help spur economic development by cutting bureaucratic red tape that slows projects.“This shows that Connecticut will be more business ...
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The New Haven Model |
| (5/3/2010) To improve the quality of schools, districts need a rigorous system for evaluating the quality of teaching — rewarding teachers who do their jobs best and retraining or removing those who fail their students. The city of New Haven and the American Federation of Teachers deserve high praise for the new teacher training and evaluation system they unveiled earlier this week.The proposal, which deserves swift approval from the board, shows what can go right when school districts and unions work ...
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Carbon Micro-Spaghetti Offers Hope For Fighting Cancer |
| (4/29/2010) by Abram KatzIf a new Yale discovery is confirmed, the microscopic spaghetti of carbon could provide a new way to fight cancer and other diseases.The discovery came from research done at Yale on carbon nanotubes (or CNTs). CNTs are super-light and super-strong rolled-up sheets of graphite just one atom thick. They’re used in high-end tennis rackets and bicycle frames.Now Yale scientists have used carbon nanotubes to multiply the body’s cellular defenders—meaning a nanomaterial previously ...
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NEW HAVEN RESTAURANT WEEK CONTINUES SWEET SUCCESS STORY |
| (4/29/2010) Fourth New Haven Restaurant Week is a Thriving Showcase of Destination CuisineNEW HAVEN, Conn., April 2010 - Following the continued success of the fourth New Haven Restaurant Week, the bi-annual event is now lauded as an institution for the New England city. Twenty-seven restaurants participated in the spring event from April 18-23, many citing that the culinary experience will be a mainstay in New Haven for years to come. According to Anne Worcester, chief marketing officer for Market New ...
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For Yalie entrepreneurs, a landlord and partner |
| (4/26/2010) (From Yale Daily)By Cora Lewis, Staff ReporterWhen student start-ups with little credit, a short track record and uncertain prospects need to expand, they turn to Carter Winstanley.In addition to overseeing the renovation and rebuilding of dilapidated properties in Science Park, Winstanley, co-owner of Winstanley Enterprises, a Massachusetts real estate development company, works closely with the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute to help young entrepreneurs obtain flexible leases and affordable ...
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Collegiate chic |
| (4/22/2010) (from hotelworldnetwork.com)When Hospitality 3 acquired the 46-year-old Colony Inn on Yale University’s campus in 2006, developer Paul McGowan’s goal was to create a contemporary hotel that easily blended into the distinct architecture of the surrounding buildings. The result is The Study at Yale, a luxury boutique hotel that offers a convenient and upscale option for visiting families, dignitaries and corporate travelers.To meet the need for additional hotel rooms in New Haven, Conn., the ...
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Merrily They Roll Along, Performing |
| (4/22/2010) By JAN ELLEN SPIEGELWHEN the Arts Council of Greater New Haven began searching for a vehicle to transport arts programs around the city, it ran into a problem. “We didn’t have any money for the vehicle,” said David Brensilver, a council spokesman.The solution was Exact Change, a once-a-year event that uses CT Transit in New Haven — the public bus system — as the vehicle, literally, for arts performances. This year, its third, Exact Change will be held on May 8, with performances along five ...
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Yale University Preparing Site For New Business School Building |
| (4/20/2010) By ERIC GERSHON, The Hartford CourantApril 20, 2010NEW HAVEN —Yale University has begun demolishing two former insurance company buildings to make way for a new, $189 million business school campus that will consolidate scattered operations and — university leaders hope — burnish the school of management's reputation.Yale has largely torn down a brick colonial-revival style building at 175 Whitney Ave. that once belonged to the former Security Insurance Co. The school also plans to ...
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Summer is a time for festival fun |
| (4/19/2010) from Travelbestbuys.comThe summer of 2010 will definitely be a time for some festival fun as families look for cost-effective summer getaways that are both pleasing and enriching. And discovering the local traditions and cultures that are showcased in the numerous festivals that take place across North America every summer is a perfect way to satisfy both of these goals.Combining history and entertainment while on vacation is not only enlightening, but affordable and the following is a list ...
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New Haven Real Estate Bucks the Trend |
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| (4/13/2010) From Contact.com, April 12, 2010Elm City is a surprising hotbed of new commercial construction projectsIn the midst of a national recession, New Haven is undergoing something of a building boom. More than two million square feet in commercial projects is either under construction or recently completed, according to city officials - and that's not counting the Q Bridge project or Yale's proposed School of Management edifice.360 State Street, 500 Luxury ApartmentsThe state of construction ...
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Science Park Company Higher One Hits Higher Ground |
| (4/13/2010) Higher One Rockets to IPO from Conntact.com, April 12, 2010Goldman Sachs, UBS to lead $100M issueNEW HAVEN - Higher One Holdings Inc., the fast-growing Science Park company that provides ATM cards to college students and other financial services to students and colleges, plans to go public.The company has filed a prospectus for an initial public offering of up to $100 million with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, while acknowledging in its filing the uncertainty created by ...
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City’s hotel market stays strong, gets crowded |
| (4/6/2010) From Yale Daily NewsIn hotel market, challengers checking inCity’s hotel market stays strong, gets crowdedBy Esther ZuckermanStaff ReporterPublished Tuesday, April 6, 2010Two years ago, the red-brick high rise at 205 Church St. was poised to transform from an office building into a four-star hotel.But while plans for the new hotel are in limbo — with the building’s owner, Hampshire Hotels & Resorts, still trying to secure $50 million in funding from the city and state — a different ...
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Yale helps construction workers find jobs |
| (4/6/2010) From Yale Daily NewsYale helps construction workers find jobs By Egidio DiBenedettoStaff ReporterPublished Tuesday, April 6, 2010Yale is helping more than 40 New Haven construction workers develop new skill sets and find jobs.Every year since 2003, Yale has teamed up with New Haven’s Commission on Equal Opportunities, local trade unions and local developers on the Construction Workforce Initiative, a city-run program that helps minorities, women and ex-cons living in New Haven ...
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On Solid Ground... |
| (3/21/2010) (From the New Haven Register)On solid ground: Program keeps construction laborers hard at workBy Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics EditorNEW HAVEN — One of the hardest-hit sectors of the economy in the wake of the country’s financial meltdown has been the construction industry with an estimated 25 percent of its work force unemployed.For a sizeable group of skilled laborers in the city, however, work has been steady, the paychecks keep coming and, rain or shine, they are on the ...
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$4,700 Downtown Penthouse Suite |
| (3/9/2010) from Courant.comNew Haven Apartment Tower: $4,700-A-Month PenthouseBy ERIC GERSHONThe Hartford CourantMarch 9, 2010NEW HAVEN —The developer of the city's most ambitious apartment building ever has begun taking deposits on units — including one for a $4,700-a-month penthouse.As of Monday, the leasing agent for Fairfield developer Bruce Becker had accepted deposits for 13 of 500 units in the 32-story project known as 360 State Street, including a 30th-floor penthouse with ...
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360 State Street - Ready to Move In |
| (3/8/2010) Developer Bruce Becker lead a group of local, state, and federal officials to tour his 32 story 500 unit apartment complex on Monday, March 8, 2010. The group included: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, and Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Developement.
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Additional information available on the developer at: www.beckerandbecker.com
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Move-in day |
| (3/3/2010) (from New Haven Register)NEW HAVEN — Dr. Anees Chagpar, meet 360 State Street.The executive director of the Breast Center at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, Chagpar needs a place to live when she moves here from Louisville, Ky.A gleaming, $190 million, 32-story residential tower — the city’s largest residential development in years and its second-tallest building — could be the place.The 500-unit building’s first tenants moved in Saturday as Chagpar toured one of the 58 ...
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Output in state ranks in Top 10 |
| (2/26/2010) from The New Haven RegisterFriday, February 26, 2010By Angela Carter, Register StaffNEW HAVEN - When it comes to the manufacturing sector, Connecticut ranks within the Top 10 nationally in high technology (seventh), patents per capita (eighth) and value added per production worker (seventh), according to data presented Thursday to the New Haven Manufacturers Association.Donald Klepper-Smith, chief economist and director of research for DataCore Partners, said during an association ...
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IVY LEAGUERS THINK GREEN |
| (2/8/2010) BY DAVID KRECHEVSKY REPUBLICAN-AMERICANOne less phone that needs to be created is one less that can end up in a landfill. That's one of the motiva-tions behind an electronics reuse and recycling business created by two Yale Univer-sity students, Bob Casey of Chicago and Rich Littlehale of Norwell, Mass. They first came up with the idea to reuse and recycle consumer electronics in the spring of 2008, and the idea has since grown into a business serving both individual consumers and corporate ...
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New Haven in the News |
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| (1/26/2010) from Anne Worceste, Market New HavenNew Haven continues its strong start to 2010 with PR hits in The Star-Ledger, Financial Times, TheCityTraveler.com, Gayot.com, The Today Show and New York Times. The various pieces highlight New Haven's world-class dining, unique hotels & attractions and growing popularity as a hip and affordable residential city. The links along with a briefdescription of each article are below. Kind Regards, Anne and team: * The Star-Ledger, "Best pizza in New Jersey: ...
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Local Biz - SeeClickFix Makes News |
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| (1/5/2010) From Jan. 4, 2010 New York TimesNews Sites Dabble With a Web Tool for Nudging Local OfficialsBy DANIEL E. SLOTNIKDoug Hardy, an associate editor and Internet supervisor for The Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., wanted to increase page views on its Web site.Mr. Hardy had heard about SeeClickFix.com, a local advocacy Web site that lets users write about issues to encourage communication between residents and local government. SeeClickFix users post a complaint about problems that ...
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Is a Healthy Frito on the Way? |
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| (12/18/2009) From Westchester County Business Journal"Purchase-based PepsiCo Inc. opened a research lab in New Haven, Conn., focused on developing healthier foods and beverages, its fifth such facility in the U.S. The company owns Frito-Lay, Quaker and Tropicana, among other brands.PepsiCo touted the lab as part of a shift to fundamentally improve the nutritional profile of its product portfolio, adding that in the past two years it has added world-renowned scientists and experts in nutrition, food safety, ...
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Locally Grown Startup Highlight |
| (12/16/2009) Article from Businessweek.comBy John Tozzi (posted on Dec. 15, 2009)Municipal Complaints Made EasierSeeClickFixJeff Blasius, Ben Berkowitz, Miles Lasater, Kam LasaterBen Berkowitz got nowhere when he called City Hall two years ago to report graffiti in his neighborhood in New Haven, Conn. His frustration became the seed for SeeClickFix, a Web site where citizens can flag such problems as graffiti and potholes to authorities. Berkowitz, a 30-year-old Web developer, and three friends ...
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Vacancy Rate Down |
| (12/16/2009) Article in New Haven Register (Oct. 21, 2009)By Cara Baruzzi, Register Business EditorNEW HAVEN — Despite a recession that has taken a toll on the office real estate market elsewhere in the state and country, the city has less vacant office space than it did a year ago, according to the latest quarterly report from Colliers Dow & Condon.In the third quarter, New Haven had a vacancy rate of 10.6 percent, down from 13.7 percent in the third quarter of 2008. The report from Colliers Dow ...
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CITY CELEBRATES TOPPING-OFF OF 360 STATE DEVELOPMENT |
| (12/11/2009) NEW HAVEN- Today marks a significant milestone in the construction of the 360 State Street Project, as the City celebrates the “topping-off” of the building’s 32 stories of steel framing. The $190 million, 700,000 square foot mixed-use development, when completed, will be the second tallest building in New Haven. This LEED Platinum development will be host to 500 apartment units and a full service grocery store. Apartments at 360 State will be ready for occupancy by Summer 2010. In building ...
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New Haven Chosen in Top 15 of US News Cities for Commuting |
(From US News, Nov. 11, 2009)
| (11/13/2009) 15 Cities for People Who Hate Driving and Long Commutes Where to go if you don''t want to spend a lot of time behind the wheel By Matthew Bandyk Even though the recession has made it hard to move, many Americans are still trying to flee their cul-de-sacs and long freeway commutes for walkable neighborhoods closer to public transportation and their jobs.Patrick Lashinsky, chief executive of real estate website Ziprealty.com, says that demand for homes in these types of neighborhoods has ...
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Kolltan Pharmaceuticals Adds $5 Million to Close Series A Financing |
Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -- 300 George St, Suite 530, New Haven, CT 06511
| (8/19/2009) Kolltan closes its Series A preferred stock financing at $40 millionNEW HAVEN, CT – August 18, 2009 - Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has raised an additional $5 million to close its Series A preferred stock financing at $40 million. Participants in the Series A financing, originally announced in January 2009, include Purdue Pharma, L.P., HBM BioCapital L.P., the Pritzker/Vlock family, and other substantial private life science investors.Kolltan is a next-generation ...
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Hotels Signal Growth in New Haven |
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| (7/16/2009) By ERIC GERSHON The Hartford CourantJuly 14, 2009Hotel developers have delayed, scrapped and revised projects across America as the recession has scared off guests and financiers, but they're forging ahead in Connecticut's third biggest city.Downtown New Haven hadn't seen a major new hotel in decades until last November, when The Study, a 124-room hotel, opened on Chapel Street, a few blocks from the city green. These days The Study appears to be on the leading edge of an Elm City hotel ...
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Cupcake Truck |
The Cupcake Truck makes news beyond New Haven
| (6/30/2009) Another best kept secret is right here in New Haven. Want to know what it is... check this article below.
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New Haven on Top During Economic Recovery |
Brookings ranked New Haven in top 20 recovering metros
| (6/30/2009) Recent news agencies, like NPR, have been sharing some positive news on the economic recovery front. And New Haven's got some share of this positive news. The Brookings Institute recently studied the 100 largest metro areas in the US to analyze economic conditions and recovery rates in the midst of this recessiion. New Haven is listed within the top 20 metropolitan areas with the healtiest rebound and ranked first in employment recovery. Check it out at the link below, or download the article ...
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US Airways City Profile |
Photo: courtesy of US Airways Magazine
| (5/31/2009) New Haven recognized as a destination city by US Airways Magazine. Check out the story link below.
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Come to New Haven this Summer |
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| (5/14/2009) BEST WEEKEND TO GO: June 20—21DISTANCE: 79.6 mi – about 1 hour 37 mins (up to 2 hours 10 mins in traffic)WHY GO: So what if you didn’t get into Yale? Every year, you can still hobnob with the high IQ’d at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas (888-ART-IDEA, artidea.org; June 13–27), which brings theater, dance and musical performers—as well as leading intellectual lights—to venues in and around the 16-acre New Haven Green. While the highbrow programming of the two-week fest reflects ...
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Dining in New Haven |
Article from NY Times April 12, 2009
| (4/13/2009) By STEPHANIE LYNESSPublished: April 10, 2009A SURE sign that New Haven is coming up in the world is the opening this past October of its first upscale, themed boutique hotel, the Study at Yale.The Study occupies the 1961 building that was once the Colony Inn on Chapel Street. It has been renovated in wood, bronze, stone and glass, with soft color tones, and has the hushed comfort of a private library. From the comfy leather chairs, reading lamps and artfully composed bookshelves in the ...
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Travel - Lodging in New Haven |
April 12, 2009 Article from Boston Globle
| (4/12/2009) By Patricia Harris and David LyonGlobe Correspondents / April 12, 2009NEW HAVEN - When we finished checking in at The Study at Yale, the desk clerk handed each of us an electronic door key and a bookmark bearing the hotel logo: a pair of eyeglasses. It was the first hint that this lodging has a light-hearted attitude about its location amid the bustle of academic life.The Study at Yale1157 Chapel St., New Haven203-503-3900, 866-930-1157www.studyhotels.comWhat we liked most: Large, ...
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Yale Nurtures Elm City Bloom |
April 12, 2009 from the Hartford Courant
| (4/12/2009) Tom Condon April 12, 2009Driving south on I-91 into New Haven one day last week, I looked toward downtown and was surprised to see a couple of construction cranes. Hey, haven't you people heard? Recession? Fun's over? Been in all the papers?Actually, the recession has been felt in the Elm City, and some construction projects have been postponed. But this is the home of Yale University, and there is still hundreds of millions of dollars worth of building going on. And though it wasn't ...
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New Haven Commercial Market Digs In |
| (4/9/2009) New Haven Commercial Market Digs InInstitution-dominated Elm City weathers recession better than some By: Karen Singer Business New Haven The commercial real estate market in New Haven County has not fared as poorly as other places in recent months, but the recession is taking a toll.Building sales are down. Retail is in retreat, and other areas are sluggish."Clearly the amount of deal activity, both leasing and sales, has slowed, but we have definitely not ...
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The Yale Effect Spreads Out |
Image map curtesy of The New York Times
| (3/29/2009) NEW HAVEN — The corner of State and Chapel Streets was a dead spot in the central retail corridor here when economic development officials began soliciting proposals for the site in August 2006. Once home to a department store, the partially paved lot had been vacant for decades, contributing nothing but parking.With downtown on the upswing, however, it was easier for developers to imagine new possibilities. If this particular corner lacked vibrancy, one had only to stroll a few blocks up or ...
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