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East Haven, CT
30 Frontage Road
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/east-haven-hotel-frontage-road-18555713.php
An artist’s rendering of the Home2 Suites by Hilton being built on Frontage Road in East Haven. The hotel is expected to open in the summer, a project official said.
Gary Desai / Contributed Photo
As basic as it gets!
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Great news. The airport will be expanded (subject to whether potential litigants can obtain funding to pay counsel).
In the decision, FAA concluded that the expansion would actually improve Tweed’s environmental impact by reducing the total number of flights, reducing noise for neighbors, lessening the airport’s effect on air quality and abutting wetlands.
Will litigation ensue? The article didn’t say:
“The Town of East Haven has committed a number of well-placed assets to provide the FAA with detailed information about our concerns from traffic, public safety to the environment,” Carfora said. “The substantial impact that the proposed action will have on our community is monumental. Our experts, and my staff will fully evaluate the FAA’s findings before announcing our next steps.”
(Carfora is mayor of East Haven)
On a Friday phone call with CT Examiner, Roger Reynolds, senior legal counsel for Save the Sound, said the decision ignores the reality of the project, and fails to address the criticisms from opponents.
“There’s no acknowledgement of any of the extensive criticisms that were submitted by federal agencies, state agencies, the public, municipalities,” Reynolds said. “And instead, they basically accepted the remarkably flawed document in its entirety.”
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New Haven’s Union Station should be surrounded by dense development, as it is one of the busiest train stations in New England. However, it’s surrounded by weeds and parking lots. There is a proposal to build high-density residential next to the train station.
Massing proposal (not an actual rendering):
Unfortunately, the proposal will likely be denied. That’s because city plan commissioners seem to be of the view that people should not live next to train stations. Funny but true!
“There will be lots of vibrations and loud noises and other impacts,” Commissioner Adam Marchand noted about apartments placed right next to a railyard. “Who would really want to live right next to a train station and train tracks? Perhaps it would be uncomfortable and disruptive.”
While such residences are surely built next to such transit hubs in cities across the country all the time, he said, “what I don’t know is what special features such projects must have to mitigate the vibration and noise and air quality impacts of such proximity to rail.” Maybe the state building code already covers those concerns.
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Usually the comments in development articles want the proposal taken down but almost everyone wants this to be built. I think New Haven needs way less parking, empty lots, and more high rises and mid rises
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Well if they get rid of this parking lot it may start a domino effect of other parking lots. Then how will this commissioner, (who I assume lives outside the “urban core” of NH), get some authentic Wooster Street Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana? THE BUS? Like a Poor? Bike? They might die by an SUV!
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Branford, New Haven suburb
https://www.ctinsider.com/shoreline/article/branford-s-parkside-expected-move-in-condition-18585723.php#photo-24589090
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This hotel in East Haven will open on June 13.
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280 Blake Street, Abandoned building into theatre.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/new-haven-broken-umbrella-theatre-bza-18600198.php#taboola-2
855 Boston Post Road, West Haven (suburb) 150 units
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/west-haven-post-road-mixed-use-housing-project-18599660.php
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Tweed airport expansion
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/faa-grant-tweed-new-haven-airport-expansion-18669698.php
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A developer has revived the idea of building a hotel, rather than apartments, on the vacant lot that once housed Webster Bank. The city gave him some extra time to decide.
The developer is Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, which has been filling vacant lots throughout downtown with new apartments.
It had originally planned to build a 132-room Hilton hotel at 80 Elm St., at the corner of Orange. The city in 2019 gave the company approval to build that hotel. The company demolished the old Webster Bank building on the lot to prepare for construction.
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Meanwhile, work continues apace down Orange Street on the $76 million “Phase 1A” for “Square 10” atop the grave of the Coliseum, where a crew is constructing 200 apartments, 16,000 square feet of retail space, and 25,000 square feet of public open space.
“The roof’s on,” Fowler reported. He said the company expects to begin marketing the apartments soon and moving people in by July.
Alders voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve the following three items:
- A $995,600 Municipal Brownfield Grant from the state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) to demolish and remediate the former Electrix lighting factory at 10 Liberty St. The city will pass this funding over to developer LMDX, which plans to build 150 units of below-market housing at the site. Read more here.
- The sale of a city-owned vacant lot at 756 – 762 Congress Ave. to Denise Keyes for $43,025. Keyes plans to build 20 below-market apartments there, geared toward elderly tenants. Read more here.
- Another state Municipal Brownfield Grant, worth $999,000, to clean up 265 South Orange St., on the border of Downtown and the Hill where the historic New Haven Coliseum once stood. The city will pass that funding onto developer Ancora Partners, which plans to construct a biotech center there.
City Plan Commissioners killed a request to turn a dilapidated former factory serving as local artist studios into storage units — after deciding the development sounded like “dead space.”
They took that unanimous vote over Zoom Wednesday night concerning the fate of 91 Shelton Ave., the deteriorating five-story former factory complex that real estate developer Schneur Katz has been trying to sell to a new owner after long been renting out to artists and small businesses.
A lone potential buyer, Diamond Point Development LLC, approached the commission months back with a request to convert the “abandoned” property into storage space — their company’s speciality — while retaining a climbing gym inside the building and setting aside room for a community-run center.
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This may not be a housing development but State street is being narrowed for better bike and pedestrian access
269 Orange street
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This article is very confusing. I thought this plan was already denied by the city plan commission:
Did something change since last month? Or does the Hartford Business Journal have outdated information?
Here is a non-paywalled article covering the same story:
According to the city land records database, on Feb. 28, the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven purchased 16 and 36 East Grand Ave. for $1.42 million from Long Water Land LLC, a holding company controlled by Carl Youngman of Newton, Mass.
The properties sit on either side of (but do not include) the Grand Vin wine shop just east of the Grand Avenue Bridge. One is a 0.8‑acre lot right on the Quinnipiac River, the other is a single-story commercial building that houses Ziggy’s Pizza Restaurant. The city most recently appraised both properties for tax purposes as worth a combined $680,000.
The property transaction comes roughly three months after the housing authority’s board signed off on the East Grand Avenue deal to facilitate the construction of around 40 new mixed-income apartments along with ground-floor retail space.
In a comment provided to the Independent for this article, Karen DuBois-Walton, who heads the housing authority and its nonprofit affiliates under the umbrella organization Elm City Communities (ECC), heralded the property acquisition as enabling the agency’s creation of more affordable and market-rate places to live, without identifying exactly how many housing units will be built as part of the final project.
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North Haven
The Archway is completed and fully leased
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/north-haven-ct-housing-development-19201407.php
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