January 13, 2020 - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒Mathew leads Comcast through IoT revolution

When Dennis Mathew was a kid, his computer-engineer father built computers at home, and garnished the house with the latest electronics he could buy.

News

🔒Why it doesn’t pay to be a workaholic

“The Hard Break — The Case for a 24/6 Lifestyle” by Aaron Edelheit (Ideapress Publishing, $24.95).

Energy

🔒Reducing electric-vehicle purchase incentive wrong-minded

You own a pizzeria. You want to grow your business. Your best seller is pepperoni. Would you take it off the menu?

News

🔒7 rules of the road to drive you forward

Whether you’re a small business, nonprofit, professional association or community group, seeking growth and advancing is pretty much a constant.

Economic Development

🔒Hartford’s next development phase an important milestone

Ground-up development is a rare bird in Hartford. Whether it’s lack of demand or high costs and taxes, new construction — other than a publicly financed ballpark — has largely eluded Hartford over the last decade.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Landlord to invest $14M in UConn off-campus housing upgrades

The largest landlord of off-campus housing at UConn is slated to begin a $14-million renovation project on two of its student-housing complexes in Willington and Storrs.

Economic Development

🔒Headed into second term, Mayor Bronin has grander development hopes for Hartford

As he begins his second four-year term as Hartford’s chief executive, Mayor Luke Bronin says one of his top priorities will be attracting more private investment and development to the Capital City.

Education

🔒Under Katsouleas, 2020 will mark beginning of innovation, research ramp up at UConn

If all goes according to University of Connecticut President Thomas Katsouleas’ plan, the next decade at UConn will be defined largely by innovation, research and working with industry and state actors on workforce-development issues.

Energy

🔒Gillett leads CT’s massive grid-modernization effort

If there’s a contest for who has the most significant and complex workload with the highest possible...

Banking & Finance

🔒Barnes to oversee growing People’s United Bank empire in 2020

As chairman and CEO of People’s United Bank and its parent, People’s United Financial, Jack Barnes has a growing empire to manage from his 16th-floor corner office in Bridgeport that overlooks the harbor below.

Economic Development

🔒Lehman to retool CT’s economic-development playbook in 2020

David Lehman’s career went through a major transition in 2019 as he moved from Wall Street to Columbus Boulevard in downtown Hartford.

Economic Development

🔒Incoming Hartford food hall only a piece of Mouta’s Parkville vision

Carlos Mouta has developed more than 1 million square feet in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood, but he’s just getting started there.

Politics & Policy

🔒5 to Watch in 2020

Each January HBJ’s editorial staff identifies five leaders who are expected to make significant headlines in the year ahead. Here are the Five to Watch in 2020.

Health Care

🔒Novel health insurance plan aims to provide small employers more affordable coverage; skeptics remain

One of the country’s largest health insurers is looking to solidify its Connecticut market share with the help of a relatively novel product aimed at small employers — a segment desperately looking for affordable coverage amid ever rising rates.

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Hartford Restaurant Group quietly builds a $32M Wood-n-Tap empire

The owners of Hartford Restaurant Group have quietly built a $32-million Wood-n-Tap empire.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒UConn engineering professor eyes autonomous-vehicle testing facility in Storrs

The University of Connecticut could become home to the first autonomous-vehicle testing facility on the East Coast.

Economic Development

🔒Business center records an assist on Meriden’s ongoing development wave

It’s not often that a relatively poor, small city sees a massive influx of infrastructure and housing investment that could change its economic fortunes. But that’s what’s been happening in Meriden, which about 15 years ago began mitigating its longtime downtown flooding challenges.

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