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Louisville is known for bourbon, baseball bats and a famous horse race, but the city on the southern bank of the wide Ohio River has another distinction:…
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New Haven was stumbling and struggling in the 1980s and early 1990s. Downtown was moribund, litter-strewn and dangerous — a Yale student (among others)…
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To the world outside its borders, Bridgeport doesn’t have a sterling reputation.On those rare occasions when it’s referenced in popular culture, it’s in a…
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When D&D Market closed its Franklin Avenue storefront in Sept. 2016, Hartford lost more than a landmark small business.The third-generation family grocer,…
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By the middle of the last century, U.S. cities were showing their age. They had endured the Great Depression and World War II, two decades of deferred…
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Gary Flocco, managing partner of Corvus Capital Partners, excitedly spoke over the sound of power tools and the shouts of hard-hat clad builders working…
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The irony carries great economic consequence: Once engines of Connecticut's prosperity, the state's former factories have long been massive liabilities…
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There's no telling how many empty industrial buildings are rotting away on polluted properties in Connecticut. The brownfield inventory maintained by the…
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One key to a better future for Connecticut's cities could lie beneath the ugly scars from its industrial past, blighted and often toxic pockets that mar…
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Connecticut’s cities were the glories of their time. Handsome and self-reliant, well-built and functional, they were economic dynamos, often known by the…