Artists Go Back In Time At Ex-Clock Factory
Before the new owners of the historic Hamilton Street Clock Factory seal it up and begin the arduous process of turning it into artist lofts, a few ghosts returned to haunt the buildings abandoned halls.
View ArticleBender Stays, Expands
Mayor Toni Harp, Economic Development Officer Matthew Nemerson and other city officials gathered Thursday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Bender New Haven’s 21,000...
View ArticleNeighbors Push Back On Parole Move
Downtown neighbors and city officials don’t disapprove of the prisoner reentry work done by a state parole office that is slated to relocate to Grand Avenue in a few months. They’re just frustrated...
View ArticleSo Long, Farnam. Hello, “Mill River”
The former Farnam Courts public housing development has traded its dilapidated townhouses for high-rise living, a new name, and views of the Q Bridge and East Rock that rival some of the fanciest digs...
View ArticleDriver Dies In Crash; Car, Body Recovered From Mill River
A 28-year-old Madison man died after his car crashed and fell into the Mill River.
View ArticleFarnam — Er ... “Mill River Crossing”— Readies Phase 2
The first two buildings of the redeveloped Farnam Courts public housing development on Grand Avenue — remonikered as Mill River Crossing — are now nearly filled up. And the public-housing complex has...
View ArticleBiz Tour Updates Demo, Parking Plans
Part of English Station is coming down. Half of Church Street South has been demolished. And barbeque is coming to Fair Haven’s new tech hub.Those were some of the takeaways of a 45-minute van tour...
View ArticleClock Shop Lofts Get $800K Clean-Up Loan
The developers of a new 133-unit low-income and artist loft housing complex in Wooster Square will get $800,000 in city-managed federal funds to help pay for part of the site’s estimated $6.6 million...
View ArticlePlan Proposes Mill River Clean-Up
Add bioswales up and down James Street. Convert a portion of Exchange Street into a linear trail park. And always keep parking lot dumpsters closed to avoid stormwater runoff contamination.Those are...
View ArticleAs Goes Georgia, Doesn’t Go Connecticut
In Georgia, Democrats are accusing the secretary of the state of blocking tens of thousands of black people from voting. In New Haven Sunday, black women working to turn out the vote heard a promise...
View ArticleLatest Sales: NHR Sheds Small To Focus Big
A local developer who has made a name building apartments for middle-income renters is shedding smaller properties to invest in larger-unit ventures Downtown and in Fair Haven Heights, as reflected in...
View ArticleGrand Avenue Dreams
A grocery, a deli, florist, a coffee shop, or an all-purpose hardware store so you wouldn’t have to drive five miles to pick up a nut, bolt, or screw.An ethnic restaurant with tables on the sidewalk,...
View ArticleChinese Manufacturer Comes Shopping
Over a swanky breakfast and then on a tour of tech and manufacturing hot spots, city leaders sought to convert a newly forged Chinese business connection into the creation of up to 100 local jobs.
View ArticleAs Lofts Loom, Strip Club Gets The Boot
New owners of a former clock factory on the industrial “Mill River” side of Wooster Square have moved to evict a nearly two-decade-old strip club as they prepare to convert the complex into 130...
View ArticleBrews & BBQ Stack Up
Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.
View ArticleShuttered Factory Gets Luckey
Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Memorial Park Dedicated
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 19-year-old Electrician’s Mate Floyd Welch was pulling together the microphone and other equipment for church services on his ship, the U.S.S. Maryland, anchored,...
View ArticleStrip Club Stalls Eviction With Bankruptcy
A Mill River strip club filed for bankruptcy the afternoon before its eviction hearing, buying itself time before having to leave in order to make way for a new complex of 130 low-income apartments and...
View ArticleAmid Freeze, Cops Look Out For Homeless
As temperatures dropped into the single digits on Wednesday night, beat cops fanned out across the city searching for anyone who might be at risk of freezing to death.
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