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April 21, 2025Edition

Economy & Labor

🔒Bordonaro: Regulatory reform must be a priority for CT Democrats

During a news conference earlier this month at a union headquarters in New Haven, Gov. Ned Lamont urged state lawmakers to support a bill that creates new regulations on the […]
Real Estate & Construction

🔒Shifting federal priorities create new landscape for architecture, engineering and construction firms

The landscape for design and construction is ever-changing. Two big factors driving that change are the economy...
Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Hartford’s popular Parkville Market adds events space; more attractions coming soon

After nearly $1 million in renovations over the past year, a new events space adjacent to Hartford’s...
Politics & Policy

🔒Despite higher construction costs, interest rates, CT saw spike in multifamily development in 2024; tariffs offer latest risk

Developer RMS Cos. last March cut the ribbon on its conversion of the top half of the...
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Sports & Outdoors

🔒Data analytics firm SponsorUnited, one of CT’s fastest-growing private companies, provides transparency on sports sponsorship deals

Stamford native Bob Lynch has created transparency within the sports and entertainment sponsorship industry, having slowly pulled...
Cannabis

🔒Slow rollout of CT’s newest cannabis cultivation facility reflects industry’s growing pains

It’s no secret that Connecticut’s adult-use marijuana industry has had a bumpy rollout since its launch two...
Manufacturing

🔒Amid expansion, New Britain-based Force Automation’s move to Bristol aims to train CT’s future robotics workforce

Lukasz Poplawski has accomplished a lot since he founded Force Automation Inc. in New Britain in 2017.Back...
Education

🔒Student visa revocations, growing visa backlog may drastically shrink international student enrollment – and revenue – at CT colleges

For college leaders that value the cultural diversity — and tuition dollars — that international students provide,...
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Agriculture

🔒Ag industry vet Klemm leads AI-backed pesticide development startup Enko into commercialization phase

“Mother Nature always wins,” said Anthony Klemm, the new CEO of crop-protection startup Enko.Klemm, the product of...
Legal & Courts

🔒CT Supreme Court ruling rattles workers’ compensation system; CBIA warns of major employer cost increases

A recent state Supreme Court decision overturned more than three decades of practice in the state’s workers’...
Economic Development

🔒Fairfield County’s ‘overbuilt’ office market may shed 3.5M sq. ft. of space over next few years. Here’s why.

Cities and regions across the U.S. saw their office vacancy rates spike during and after the pandemic,...
Economic Development

Two vacant Windsor office properties eyed for multifamily redevelopment, a Starbucks and new commercial building

Two vacant office buildings just off Interstate 91 in Windsor are the focus of a planned development...
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Foreign Trade

🔒As trade war heats up, CT finding greater value in trade commissions

Conall O Móráin is a prominent business broadcaster and podcaster based in Dublin, Ireland.  From his bedroom window,...
Hospitality & Tourism

CT Convention & Sports Bureau on chopping block amid proposed funding cuts

A small, five-person agency that brings meetings and conventions into Connecticut is lobbying lawmakers to save it...
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