February 24, 2020 - Hartford Business Journal

Small Business

🔒Lombardo makes a living destroying company secrets and data

When Stacey Lombardo got into the document-destruction business, most of the companies she cold-called didn’t employ anyone tasked with handling storage and shredding of private materials.

Health Care

🔒PhysicianOne Urgent Care is a local, physician-founded care provider

In response to your recent article “PhysicianOne gobbles up Greater Hartford urgent care provider,” I wish to clarify a few points.

News

🔒The power of innovation

“Experimentation Works — The Surprising Power of Business Experiments” by Stefan H. Thomke (Harvard Business Review Press, $32).

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Nine mistakes that doom a company’s marketing

Marketing has never been a laidback, trouble-free game anyone can play.

Politics & Policy

🔒In search of moderate political candidates

Connecticut’s April 28 presidential primary is set and to the delight of some local Republicans, Donald Trump won’t be the only name on the GOP’s ballot.

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofits say state funding boost would save taxpayers money

Diana, a 49-year-old resident of a Hartford halfway house, is looking for a job. Any job.

Politics & Policy

🔒State readies one-stop regulatory shop for business owners, entrepreneurs

This summer, businesses and entrepreneurs will see the first major, public-facing example of the Lamont administration’s push to modernize and streamline the state’s information-technology systems.

Economy & Labor

🔒Legalized recreational marijuana poses opportunities and threats to various CT business interests

Gov. Ned Lamont has filed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, creating a $1.25-per-gram tax on the drug, which would be available for purchase to customers 21 and older beginning at the earliest, July 1, 2022.

Politics & Policy

🔒Vacant buildings, parking lots continue to blanket a key gateway to downtown Hartford

While many old vacant office buildings in Hartford have found new life in recent years, a key block that welcomes visitors downtown has struggled to be redeveloped.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Vacant suburban office parks present challenges, opportunities for CT landlords, municipalities

Connecticut has had mixed success in redeveloping recently vacated corporate campuses.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒400-plus Hartford apartments coming online in 2020

More than 400 new apartment units are slated to debut in Hartford this year, continuing a recent wave of vacant offices being converted into downtown living spaces.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Amid rising debts, continued membership declines, exclusive Hartford Club will open doors to public

The Hartford Club is trying to pay down debt as it dramatically shifts its business model.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Developer eyes second project attempt on fiercely guarded Avon golf course land

NIMBYism runs rampant in some Connecticut communities, but a well-organized Avon citizen group with deeper-than-average pockets has taken the “not-in-my-backyard” approach to a new level and notched several recent victories.

February 24, 2020Edition

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