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87 More Wooster Square Apartments Planned
Plans to convert a 68,000 square-foot office building on the edge of Wooster Square into 87 new market-rate apartments won a key city sign-off in the latest entry in New Haven’s ongoing apartment...
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Farnam Phase 2 Survives Dumpster Debate
Phase 2 of the Farnam Courts / Mill River Crossing public housing rebuild won a key city sign-off — on the condition that the end result doesn’t require elderly tenants to walk a block and a half...
View ArticleClock Shop Doc Recaptures Counterculture
A mime, a biker, a stripper, and a hardcore punk rocker walk into a dilapidated former clock factory.That’s not the setup for a joke. That was just 1980s New Haven, as featured in a new documentary...
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“Vegas” Strip Club Wins Approval
Peter Forchetti lost his voice and gained 40 pounds from stress — but ultimately won his final zoning approval Tuesday night needed to turn an abandoned Mill River warehouse into a “Las Vegas-style”...
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Promise: Rezoning Won’t Zone People Out
City officials promised to examine the potential impact that a rezoning project might have on low-income black and brown communities as they move forward with longstanding retail revitalization plans...
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Mandy Buys Warehouse For $1.6M
Mandy Management purchased a Mill River warehouse to store boilers, washing machines, refrigerators, and other household appliances needed for its local property management empire.Meanwhile, four homes...
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“Ribbon” Cut To Open Mill River Trail
When you celebrate a grand opening of a store or building, it’s customary to cut a symbolic ribbon.But when you celebrate the opening of an equally important asset, a riverine trail that links...
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Mill River Office Building Sold For $4.65M
Local builders purchased a Mill River office building for $4.65 million and plan to hold off converting it to market-rate apartments until they’re convinced the neighborhood warrants the...
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New Director Pitches Improved Shelter
The new director of the Grand Avenue homeless shelter has grand ambitions for the oft-maligned social service space: a full interior and exterior building rehab, better connections to permanent housing...
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Gentrification Fears Stall Rezoning Quest
Nearly two dozen critics of gentrification, market-rate housing, Yale expansion, and city-led planning initiatives stalled a rezoning project designed to rekindle commercial development along portions...
View Article3 Cars, 11 Shots Fired
Occupants fired bullets at each other along a ride that took them from Grand Avenue up Orange Street.
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Fire Recruits Find The Rescue Path
Angel Martinez burst through the apartment’s front door, a faded basketball cradled in his hands, a cloud of smoke rushing out behind him.“I got the baby!” he shouted through his face mask. “I got the...
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River Trail’s 2nd Leg Comes Into Focus
So long to the ziggurat of discarded tires and the dumped detritus of a section of abandoned street that pours dirty storm water into our harbor and Long Island soundHello to a beautiful pocket park...
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God Advances. Art Falters
An application to turn a long vacant industrial building on East Street into a church and refuge for those struggling with addiction won approval for zoning commissioners this week.At the same time a...
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Chapel Developer Lashes Out
Peter Chapman came out swinging.He said the city “stonewalled” and “obstructed” his planned factory conversion — and now seeks to “extract” $350,000 before he can proceed.City officials swung back,...
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Factory-To-Sober House Plan Approved
An old eyesore of an abandoned factory building on East Street is about to become a site for sober eyes.That’s because Pastor Mike Caroleo, leader of the Christian-centered 180 Center recovery project...
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“Mill River Crossing” Signs Up
The housing authority’s old Farnam Courts at Grand Avenue and Franklin Street—now the unfolding new Mill River Crossing development —is about to get a spiffy new sign.The four-part grouped column,...
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Pump Builder Buys Fair Haven Factory
An industrial-use pump manufacturer has purchased Radiall’s former factory buildings on John Murphy Drive in Fair Haven for $3.2 million — with plans eventually to hire enough people to replace many of...
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Fed Gun Strategy Goes On Trial
In prosecutors’ telling, Jamie Middlebrook was a hardened crack dealer who carried a semi-automatic in his jacket pocket, ready to blast anyone on Grand Avenue after his stash. He’d rather be judged by...
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