January 27, 2020 - Hartford Business Journal

Arts & Culture

🔒Hartford’s next master plan to focus on arts, nightlife, transportation

What are Hartford’s strengths and weaknesses, and which need to be accelerated or curtailed? Those are some of the big questions planning officials are posing to thousands of city residents and stakeholders as they prepare Hartford’s next master plan, which will focus heavily on economic development.

News

🔒How to gain productivity daily

Think of tasks in which you were in the “flow” (i.e. so engrossed that you worked uninterrupted from start to finish and lost track of time). I’d bet such tasks are few and far between. Why? You’re constantly battling the enemies of flow: interruption, distraction and diversion.

Nonprofits

🔒Lamont must retool relationship with nonprofit sector

Gov. Ned Lamont misread his audience when he spoke recently at the annual meeting of the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance in Hartford.

Economic Development

🔒A 2020 legislative wish list to spur economic growth in New England

Our leaders in Congress ended 2019 with a flurry of activity. In their final week on Capitol Hill, Congress passed a $1.4-billion spending bill that will fund the government through September.

Nonprofits

🔒HBJ expands nonprofit-sector coverage in 2020

Hartford Business Journal recently formed a new partnership with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to accelerate HBJ’s coverage of the nonprofit sector in 2020.

Small Business

🔒Who is Barry Alexander?

Barry Alexander has major ambitions to build a large-scale drone manufacturing company in downtown Hartford, but he’s not a household name in the business community.

Small Business

🔒Newington pilot has grand aspirations for Hartford drone startup

A growing push by the U.S. government to stem the market dominance of Chinese-made drones over espionage concerns is creating a business opportunity in downtown Hartford.

Economy & Labor

🔒Nonprofits play key role in workforce development

The path from high school to a job was once direct — many companies were willing to take on unskilled workers and train them for entry-level posts.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒New Britain court shakeup could impact property tax appeals

For the past two decades or so, as directed by state law, property tax appeals from many cities and towns have been funneled to New Britain Superior Court, to be weighed by several judge trial referees within the court’s so-called “tax and administrative appeals session.”

Politics & Policy

🔒Property tax appeals are costing Hartford, other munis big bucks. Now cities and towns want to reform the system.

Following its $550-million debt bailout deal with the legislature in 2017, the city of Hartford started down a long, painful path to stabilize its finances by cutting expenses and limiting new borrowing.

Health Care

🔒Despite a short legislative session, interest groups pushing major policy agendas in 2020

In Connecticut’s two-year budget cycle, legislative sessions in even-numbered years are only three months long, creating a relatively tight window that typically tempers lawmakers’ and interest groups’ policy aspirations.

Manufacturing

🔒State’s disparate manufacturing groups join forces to strengthen lobbying effort in Hartford

Connecticut's disparate manufacturing groups have joined forces to strengthen the industry's lobbying effort in Hartford.

Subscriber Only

🔒Hartford’s newest tech company aims for 200 workers, new downtown office in 2020

GalaxE.Solutions Inc. is aiming to hire at least 200 workers and potentially find new downtown Hartford office space in 2020.

Education

🔒College interns: The unsung heroes of the business world

There’s a group of people who get very little acclaim in the business community, sometimes they don’t even get paid, but they are an integral part to the success of a business.

Education

🔒More U.S. colleges are converting to a university. Here’s why.

When Mark Scheinberg stepped on stage earlier this month in the main auditorium of his East Hartford school, the words projected on the screen behind him were also emblazoned on excited-looking faculty members’ sweatshirts.

Economic Development

🔒Windsor’s long-awaited Great Pond development debuts first apartments

Windsor’s Day Hill Road recently debuted its first multifamily housing development.

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