Zoning Q: More Housing, More Parking?
Clockwise from top left: Up to 64 new apartments eyed for Hamilton St.; developer Yoon Lee; the 63 Hamilton parking lot; Lost in New Haven's Rob Greenberg. A bid to provide lots more places for people...
View ArticleHousing Plan Dropped Amid Parking Dispute
Apartments that won't be built on Hamilton St. A Hamilton Street parking lot will remain a Hamilton Street parking lot for the time being, now that a local landlord has withdrawn a housing application...
View ArticleLast Warming Center Closes For Summer
Christopher lines up for the 180 Center's final night as a warming center. At 6:15 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, Christopher ambled over to the 180 Center on a crooked foot.It was the last night that the last...
View ArticleIndustrial District Tour Eyes Mixed-Use Future
Minsky, Eyzaguirre, Pickett, and McLeggon in the Art to Frames showroom ... ... as employees put together custom frame orders, as viewed on Development Commission tour of Mill River / River Street...
View ArticleSquatters Set Up In Almost-Sold Factory
Franklyn Gallo: RV is "better than living on the street." The clock company's latest tenant. Inside the nearby shed. Housing has finally come to the old Hamilton Street clock factory — in the form of a...
View ArticleEx-Clock Factory Has Another Fire
Firefighter Dan Kisluk on scene Tuesday. For the second time in a month, firefighters Tuesday raced to the abandoned clock factory on Hamilton and Wallace Streets.The latest call came at 12:30 p.m....
View ArticleThe Word On Chapel & East: Swirling Colors Hit The Wall
Jessie Unterhalter at work Monday. “Beautiful!” a passing motorist called out while heading downtown Monday on Chapel Street.“Thank you!” Jessie Unterhalter said for the tenth? 20th? time of the...
View ArticleKaleidoscopic Mural Unveiled On Chapel
Whoa! Payton, Ellis, and Anaya with muralists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn: “This is why we’re doing this.” The challenge was steep. To scour the globe for a muralist to lend such pizzazz to a...
View ArticleConcrete Co. Eyes More Trains, Fewer Trucks
Suzio truck rolls on out of the Chapel St. concrete plant. Expect 4,000 fewer truck deliveries per year to an industrial riverfront stretch of Chapel Street — as a Meriden-based concrete company plans...
View ArticleAlameda Animates Mill River District Visioning
Can the city help bring this vision to life? Oh, that's an alameda. Cool! Imagine an alameda — a long shady tree-lined walkway — running down the middle of Blatchley Avenue all the way from Grand...
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