July 15, 2019 - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒Community Notebook: July 15, 2019

More than 450 Ability Beyond supporters attended Ability Beyond’s Enchanted Forest Gala to raise $550,000 for critical programs and services for 3,000 individuals with disabilities. The black-tie event was held at the Amber Room Colonnade in Danbury. All proceeds from the gala will be used by the nonprofit to continue providing job training and placement, […]

Economy & Labor

🔒CT budget, tax changes impact small employers

Gov. Ned Lamont has signed a two-year budget that increases taxes by about $340 million for the next fiscal year alone.

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofits must prepare for the worst

There is no industry more rigid, more entrenched and more archaic than the nonprofit sector. There, I said it.

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Fashonista Harris hopes to shake up men’s fashion direct marketing

As a teen, when Tyron Harris walked into school with a new outfit, everyone looked. “I dressed very...

Economic Development

🔒A focus on better managing parking

Managed parking, which aims to make the greatest use out of the fewest parking spots as possible,...

Economic Development

🔒Are parking lots undervalued?

A proposal a few years ago to begin taxing land in Hartford at a higher rate, while...

Economic Development

🔒Downtown Hartford has a glut of parking lots some say could hold the key to growing the city’s grand list

Some say Hartford’s many parking lots could be used to host commercial and residential development.

Banking & Finance

🔒Local credit unions see opportunity as community-development lenders

Jayne Defrancesco, a Hamden grandmother raising her three grandkids, wanted a reliable car.Defrancesco’s old car needed extensive...

Banking & Finance

🔒CT angel investors get a boost from state budget

Connecticut lawmakers have sent a confident message to the state’s startup ecosystem, according to some of the...

Energy

🔒CT utility regulator targets backlog of utility-pole removals

The handful of companies that own Connecticut’s hundreds of thousands of utility poles have reported a growing backlog of delays related to removing old poles that potentially pose safety hazards.

Education

🔒Hartford HealthCare, Trinity College deepen relationship

The two largest institutions in Hartford’s South End have long been friendly neighbors and collaborators, but a newly announced arrangement ties them more tightly together.

Retail

🔒Riccobono airs Untuckit’s push into brick and mortar retail

Clothing retailers have spent years taking brick-and-mortar operations online, but with its June opening of a store...

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