April 18, 2018
Connecticut Innovations Funds 43 Companies in Final 2017 Quarter
ROCKY HILL: Connecticut Innovations (CI), Connecticut’s venture capital arm and what they say is the “leading source of financing and ongoing support for Connecticut’s innovative, growing companies”, invested $9.4 million…
April 18, 2018
Connecticut Casino Revenue Well Up In March
LEDYARD: After years in the recession fueld dumps, Connecticut’s casino’s are seeing some bright lights and the state's’s coffers are feeling the love as well. Revenue from slots were up significantly at Foxwoods Resort…
April 10, 2018
New Haven Biotech Arvinas Raises $55 Million To Advance Cancer Drugs
NEW HAVEN: The privately owned and venture financed Arvinas LLC, has raised $55 million Series C financing for development of drugs to address prostate and breast cancers. The financing was led by new investor Nextech…
April 10, 2018
Former Trump Estate Hits Market
GREENWICH: A Waterfront estate formerly owned by President Donald Trump is on the market for $45 million. The property, ‘commands” a 6-acre peninsula and on by the waters of Long Island Sound, and is currently the…
Hartford HealthCare To Acquire Bridgeport’s St. Vincent's Medical Center
Apr 01, 2018
BRIDGEPORT: St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport and its parent Ascension Health have signed a non-binding letter of…
Bridgeport Concert Venue Design Revealed
Apr 01, 2018
BRIDGEPORT: Torpedoes or lawsuits be dammed that is the plan of Bridgeport’s Mayor Joe Ganim, and concert amphitheater…
90's Era New Haven Developer Bob Mathews Indicted For EB 5 Visa "Scheme" (2)
Apr 01, 2018
The estate of former New Haven Developer Bob Mathews, now under federal indictment. The home was priced for auction at $26.5…
Law Firm May Challenge Connecticut Water Takeover
Apr 01, 2018
A Law firm is questioning SJW Group's takeover of Connecticut Water Service, engineerd by former CWS CEO and current SJW CEO…
Edible International To Open Second Headquarters in Atlanta, Names President (2)
Mar 03, 2018
Christian Nahas has been appointed President of Edible Brands, and will work from the company's "second" headquarters in…
Fed Report Sides With Utilities, Scolds Environmental Group
Mar 03, 2018
WASHINGTON: Eversource and Avantgrid [United Illuminating] have won a major battle in a against allegations by an…
Bio-tech Exec Charged With Embezzlement
Mar 03, 2018
Artificial Cell Technologies Inc., CFO has been indicted for embezzlement from the company. NEW HAVEN: The chief financial…
Unused UConn Property Offered to City
Mar 03, 2018
TORRINGTON: UConn has contacted to Torrington city leaders to offer the municipality the first chance to buy the…
Blue Buffalo New Top Dog with $8 Billion Buyout
Feb 23, 2018
WILTON: A Connecticut startup and success story Blue Buffalo Pet Foods [NASDAQ:BUFF] is reportedly being sold to General…
Health
Quinnipiac Appoints Dean of Nursing School
NORTH HAVEN : Lisa G. O’Connor of East Haddam has been appointed Dean, of the School of Nursing at Quinnipiac University, O’Connor had been associate…
Hartford HealthCare To Acquire Bridgeport’s St. Vincent's Medical Center
BRIDGEPORT: St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport and its parent Ascension Health have signed a non-binding letter of intent with Hartford…
Anti-Marijuana Organization Cites Potential Costs to Legalization
HARTFORD: While Advocates for legalization of recreational use of Marijuana in Connecticut cite economic benefit to the state an anti-legalization…
Advocates for marijuana sales point to big economic boost
By: Keith M. Phaneuf |ctmirror.org Advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana use in Connecticut — and taxing its sales — are hoping a holistic,…
Breaking down this year’s Access Health CT open enrollment
By: MACKENZIE RIGG | ctmirror.org In all, 114,134 residents enrolled in private health insurance through the state’s health insurance exchange,…
Wallingford Medical Device Company Launches Product To Control Internal…
WALINGFORD: Z-Medica, LLC, a developer of hemostatic devices, announced that QuikClot Control+® approved by the FDA in June of 2017 is now…
Children's Hospital Invests In Mass. Biotech
HARTFORD: Connecticut Children's Medical Center has made an investment in a small Massachusetts based biotech company Biostage, Inc. [OTCQB:…
State Seeks More Medical Marijuana Sellers
HARTFORD: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions may be trying to arrest the increase in marijuana sales in states across the country, but Connecticut is…
Chester Retirement Community Sold
CHESTER: Chester Village West set on 55 acres with 105 cottages and apartments was purchased by Masonicare, based in Wallingford, the state’s largest…
ACA Mandate Gone, State Eyes Imposing Its Own
By: Ana Radelat | ctmirror.com Washington – As Congress is about to vote on a tax overhaul that will gut the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that most…
Technology
Connecticut Innovations Funds 43 Companies in Final 2017 Quarter
ROCKY HILL: Connecticut Innovations (CI), Connecticut’s venture capital arm and what they say is the “leading source of financing and ongoing support…
Fox Network Prevails Against Fairfield Video Search Company In Court
FAIRFIELD: TVEyes, Inc. has lost in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to Fox News Network, LLC, a decision preventing the…
OPINION: How Connecticut became the least likely innovation hub in the U.S.
By Matthew McCooe, Connecticut Innovations Think back to where Connecticut was 20 years ago. A National Hockey League franchise had just left the…
New Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Ecosystem Helps Test Ideas, Hire…
Logan: "Entrepreneurs can do more than offer rewards to backers." PLANTSVILLE: Two Connecticut entrepreneurs are taking on the crowd funding and…
Tech Company Hopes To Disrupt CT Real Estate Market
FAIRFIELD: Connecticut has a new real estate company that is hoping that their expertise in software and digital marketing will allow them to disrupt…
New Haven's New Tech District Is Right Around The Corner
By Mitchell Young NEW HAVEN: In December 2014, digital media entrepreneurs David Salinas and Peter Sena founders of Digital Surgeons a New Haven…
Nigerian National Pleads Guilty in E-Mail Scheme Defrauding Connecticut…
NEW HAVEN: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven…
Two Fast Growing Bank Service Companies Set Joint Marketing Plan
Leaders in Core and Compliance Management Services Working Together to Expand the Deployment of the Unified Compliance Management Model in the…
Datto Founder Donates $50 Million to Alma Mater
STAMFORD: Austin McChord, founder and CEO of Datto, one of Connecticut’s fastest growing tech companies has donated $50 million to the Rochester…
Glastonbury Financial Service Company Raises $6 Million From Strategic…
GLASTONBURY: Payrailz, a digital payments company offering advanced bill payment and money transfer solutions to banks and credit unions, announces…
Real Estate & Construction
Former Trump Estate Hits Market
GREENWICH: A Waterfront estate formerly owned by President Donald Trump is on the market for $45 million. The property, ‘commands” a 6-acre peninsula…
Cheshire Complex Has New Owner, Adding Solar
CHESHIRE: Sky Management Services, LLC with offices in Philadelphia and New York, has purchased 611-617 West Johnson Avenue a four building flex…
Single-Family Home Price Rises 7.2 Percent in February
BOSTON: Single-family home sales in Connecticut fell 3 percent in February compared to February 2017, while the median sale price spiked 7.2 percent,…
Library Design Is Set and Construction Is A Go
HARTFORD: The city’s “long awaited” Park Street Public Library has a a new design presented by architects TSKP Studio of. Hartford. The two-story,…
90's Era New Haven Developer Bob Mathews Indicted For EB 5 Visa "Scheme"
The estate of former New Haven Developer Bob Mathews, now under federal indictment. The home was priced for auction at $26.5 million, but has been…
Mixed Use Westport Property Set For Redevelopment
WESTPORT: A team of three brokers, David Lindland, Franco Fellah and Matthew Keefe, has completed the sale of the 201 Main Street property for $3.25…
Crossfit Builds Out In Waterford
WATERFORD: New London CrossFit, LLC, has leased 11,750 s/f of space at 132 Cross Road. Ron Lyman, CCIM, Lyman Real Estate CEO, brokered both sides of…
Downtown New Haven Building Sells
NEW HAVEN: The iconic mixed use building at 38 Trumbull Street was sold for $1,325,000 to Toplift Peak LLC. The seller was a local real estate…
Hamden Still Attracting Brick and Mortar Retailers
HAMDEN: The city’s Director of Economic Development and Neighborhood Revitalization, Dale Kroop, released a statement saying “despite the challenges…
Printer To Expand In West Haven
WEST HAVEN: For those that take notes write this down. At least one hands on printer is showing that ink on paper still matters. Panagrafix inc. [USA…
Government
Mr. Smith Wants to Go to Hartford
OPINION: By Mitchell Young Or does he? Webster Bank Chairman and former CEO James Smith said on April 6 he wants to be Connecticut’s next Governor,…
Joel Schiavone: New Haven What Road To Where
Joel Schiavone in New Haven magazine's first profile in 2007, on the Chaple Street that he layed the foundation for. Perhaps more than any single…
90's Era New Haven Developer Bob Mathews Indicted For EB 5 Visa "Scheme"…
The estate of former New Haven Developer Bob Mathews, now under federal indictment. The home was priced for auction at $26.5 million, but has been…
Bridgeport Concert Venue Design Revealed
BRIDGEPORT: Torpedoes or lawsuits be dammed that is the plan of Bridgeport’s Mayor Joe Ganim, and concert amphitheater developers Howard Saffan and…
CT Lawmakers Explore Sports Betting Ahead of SCOTUS Decision
By: Keith M. Phaneuf and Clarice Silber ctmirror.org HARTFORD: House Democratic leaders are preparing to enact legislation this spring to launch…
Anti-Marijuana Organization Cites Potential Costs to Legalization
HARTFORD: While Advocates for legalization of recreational use of Marijuana in Connecticut cite economic benefit to the state an anti-legalization…
Advocates for marijuana sales point to big economic boost
By: Keith M. Phaneuf |ctmirror.org Advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana use in Connecticut — and taxing its sales — are hoping a holistic,…
Fairness to Governor May Come At Expense of Business
Hartford: Governor Dannel Malloy thinks the Federal government has been so good to business that a little more tax coming their way is just fine.…
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