January 22, 2024 - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒5 crucial steps to building long-lasting client relationships

One of the invaluable lessons learned during my 30-plus year career in the advertising agency world is the transformative power of feedback — both negative and positive — and its potential to improve professional relationships and drive enduring loyalty. It is this feedback, and the willingness to seek it out, that builds trust and deepens […]

Economic Development

🔒Bordonaro: Grand plans to reshape Hartford’s transportation infrastructure are nice. But, how will we pay for it?

The state Department of Transportation recently released a detailed study recommending transformative changes to Greater Hartford’s highway...

Politics & Policy

🔒Working group prepares recommendations to reform state’s historic property redevelopment review process

A working group tasked with reviewing the state’s role in approving tax credits and grants for the...

Politics & Policy

🔒As legislative session begins, CT lobbying corps sees new players, fresh starts

When the 2024 legislative session kicks off in just a few weeks, there will be a noticeable...

Bioscience

🔒Amid $350M fundraise, ‘promising’ clinical trial data, Arvinas sets sights on commercial drug launch

With a recent $350 million fundraise, New Haven biotech Arvinas says it’s financed through at least 2027...

Cannabis

🔒CT records $144.6M in recreational cannabis sales in 2023

Connecticut tallied $144.6 million in recreational cannabis sales in 2023, according to new estimates from the state...

Energy

🔒Key Capture’s 400 MW battery energy storage projects seen as key to CT’s renewable energy future

Key Capture Energy is at the forefront of bringing renewable energy to Connecticut, ahead of the state’s...

Small Business

🔒Speedier approvals, tight credit market, pandemic aid programs help grow SBA loan activity

Nicheisha Walker last April was able to purchase Rockville Bank’s former South Windsor headquarters and transform the...

Retail

🔒Abunasra brothers, with three Ashley furniture stores, plan to expand growing retail, real estate portfolio

West Hartford businessman Sami Abunasra learned the value of hard work at the side of his father,...

Economic Development

🔒Two major New Haven development projects move forward

Two major New Haven developments are moving forward in the new year now that both have secured...

Economic Development

🔒Vacant downtown Hartford church to get new life as HR consulting firm HQ; minority business support center

A Hartford business owner will give new life to a former downtown church property when she relocates...

Small Business

🔒Growing Stamford-based property tech startup SwiftConnect completes $10M fundraise

A Stamford-based property technology startup that offers digital access to apartment or office buildings recently raised $10 million in funding that will allow it to add about a dozen new employees and support new clients.

News

Here are CT’s highest-paid state employees

These are the highest-paid state of Connecticut employees. The data was obtained from the Office of the...

Politics & Policy

🔒Lamont looks to replicate CRDA’s success with statewide development agency tasked with financing transit-oriented housing

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to replicate the success of the Capital Region Development Authority — credited with helping to spur the development of thousands of new apartments in Hartford — in other cities and towns as part of his administration's focus on transit-oriented development.

Economic Development

🔒Redevelopment would bring 100 apartments, commercial space to Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood

The new owners of the former Hanson & Whitney Co. factory in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood hope to...

Economic Development

Former Wethersfield Town Council member Pentalow named Hartford’s economic development director

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has named former Wethersfield Town Council member Patrick Pentalow as the city’s new...

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