Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
The former home of Elm City rock concerts and New Haven Nighthawks hockey games — and a current parking lot — is one step closer to being redeveloped as a downtown urban center. New Haven has received proposals from six developers for the redesign of the 4.5-acre site of the now-demolished New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which lies on South Orange Street along...
On a night when exit polls for the Pennsylvania presidential primaries showed that many voters already lacked confidence in the economy, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller delivered some less-than-inspiring words about the national housing market. Speaking in New Haven on Tuesday afternoon, Shiller predicted that the current housing crisis, which has resulted in a...
Despite the national recession, an initiation of a new board vice-chairman and a petition in support of Tweed New Haven Regional Airport construction, it was same old, same old for the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting Thursday morning. At the two-hour meeting, held over breakfast at the Omni Hotel and keynoted by Wall Street Journal economics...
A small aside at the Omni Hotel on Thursday morning may aggravate preexisting tensions between Tweed New Haven Regional Airport and East Haven. At Thursday’s annual meeting of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, amid upbeat conversation about city commerce and youth initiatives, Chamber Director Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 introduced a proposal asking East...
Business owners in the Broadway District are hoping their collective discounts during Thursday’s College Night will bring the same crowd of students to the strip that it has in the past — even if most Yale students interviewed said they do not plan to attend. Tonight’s event — during which most businesses will offer a 10- to 20-percent discount between 6 and 9...
Tony Koutroumanis opened Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant in 1970 and has run the popular establishment ever since. The News spoke with Koutroumanis about how the weakening economy has affected his and other New Haven businesses. Q: The economy hasn’t been doing very well. Has it affected business? A: Definitely. A lot of my family is in the restaurant business. They...
Brian Graham, owner of Sushi on Chapel, has a simple business philosophy: “Have fun, make money and eat great sushi.” Surrounded by dark brown walls and square wooden tables at his Chapel Street location, Graham — who plans to open the doors to his new Japanese restaurant in the next day or so — said he is not worried about drawing a crowd, despite his lack of...
When Christine first purchased her three-unit house on University Place in 2004, she was thrilled at the prospect of finally owning her own home. She had a husband of 14 years, a comfortable commuter job in New York City and manageable mortgage payments for her new residence — $2,800 per month. “It was a good mortgage,” said 39-year-old Christine, who asked to have...
As Mayor John DeStefano Jr. stood before the podium at a press conference at New Haven Police Department headquarters last Friday, he emphasized two trends in the city’s quarterly crime report. As statistics breakdowns flashed in succession on a projector screen to his left, the message was clear. “Violent crimes are down. Burglaries are up,” the mayor said on...
After a two-year redevelopment project set to begin next month, the $125-million apartment complex on Chapel and State streets may feature an unexpected surprise for its residents: wind turbines. The once controversial Shartenberg Project — to be built on a 1.5 acre parking lot on the same block where a three-alarm fire caused $10 million in damages last December —...
After a search that began last September, the city has chosen William Placke as the new CEO of the soon-to-launch New Haven community bank, First City Funding Corp., the New Haven Independent reported on Monday. He began his tenure as president of the bank last week. The First City Funding Corp. financed the creation of the Elm City ID, which was offered starting July...
As Thai native Mong Khol shivered behind the smoke of his food cart on Science Hill, flipping slices of meat and serving his equally cold customers, he knew, he said, that the cold, rainy weather was driving down business. But he thought he could at least take solace in one fact: With the increased patronage from the approaching spring warmth, his cart — and the...
