July 4, 2022 - Hartford Business Journal

Sports & Outdoors

🔒Bordonaro: Travelers Championship shows Hartford region has ‘major league’ potential

The Travelers Championship this year raised $2.5 million for charity, providing an important lifeline for local nonprofits. Just as significant is the impact the PGA Tour event has on promoting […]

Manufacturing

🔒Mountains of trash, cockfighting ring, illegal marijuana grow operation – Hussains aim to rejuvenate troubled Parkville building in Hartford

Riaz and Gladys Hussain knew the Bartholomew Avenue building they purchased via Hartford city tax auction in...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Southington HVAC company pays $2.4M for new Berlin home

Jeff Leone, CEO of Air Temp Mechanical Services, recently paid $2.4 million for a Berlin industrial building...

Manufacturing

🔒Element 119 growing ceramic coating business off new business, defense contracts

When Element 119 founder and President Andrew Zeppa began making ceramic coatings in his garage in 2010,...

Health Care

🔒Here’s how the healthcare industry is addressing its workforce shortage crisis

Connecticut’s healthcare workforce shortage — especially in nursing — remains in a crisis stage due to a...

Banking & Finance

🔒Quietly, some CT banks and credit unions serve cannabis industry

Despite fears about federal restrictions, some banks and credit unions in Connecticut are working with cannabis companies...

Banking & Finance

🔒Cannabis companies turn to alternative financing options to start, grow their businesses

With mainstream banks and credit unions unable to lend to cannabis companies, marijuana entrepreneurs are turning to...

Politics & Policy

🔒Red-hot Hartford, New Haven multifamily sectors evolve along different paths

RMS Cos. is welcoming the first tenants to its sleek, gray-sided, nearly-finished apartment building that wraps around...

Insurance

🔒Will there be a Hartford apartment bubble?

A slowdown in Hartford apartment construction following the onset of the pandemic has now turned into a...

Politics & Policy

🔒Intense demand fuels New Haven rental boom

The prospective tenant from California had perfect credit, excellent references and more than enough income for the...

Education

🔒Massive fundraising campaigns offer CT colleges a key financial lifeline

Fundraising — especially in today’s competitive higher education market — is the financial lifeblood of any university.Money...

Banking & Finance

🔒Annie Lamont-led angel investor group aims to boost women venture capital funding

In 2020, Americans filed more than 4.2 million applications for startup businesses — a 24% increase from...

Nonprofits

🔒Hartford nonprofits turn to development to strengthen their missions

When Rosanne Haggerty’s Community Solutions nonprofit got involved in redeveloping the historic Swift Factory in Hartford’s North...

Nonprofits

🔒Riverfront Recapture eyes multiuse park, arts venue, commercial development for Hartford waterfront property

What to do with the 60 acres of open waterfront space on the Hartford-Windsor border that Riverfront...

Nonprofits

🔒Not-for-profits need a profit: Consider multiple revenue streams to ensure longevity

Some not-for-profit leaders feel an obligation to apply every possible dollar to the mission.While the impulse is...

Cannabis

Entrepreneurs hope to build cannabis ‘campus’ in Hartford

Two entrepreneurs are hoping to create a hub for cannabis businesses in Hartford with a new campus...

Health Care

Cigna plans $386M renovation of Windsor data center

Bloomfield-based health insurer Cigna Corp. hopes to tap tax incentives enacted by Connecticut in 2021 for a...

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