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🔒Tolland’s Ivy Woods Apts. sell for $7.4M

The 64-unit Ivy Woods Apartments in Tolland sold recently for $74 million, or $115,000 per unit, brokers say.

🔒Lenders wary of residential clean energy program

The quasi-public Connecticut Green Bank is taking another stab at creating an energy-efficiency lending program for homeowners, something that exists in just a handful of states.

🔒Malloy attends ribbon cutting for new Capewell Lofts in Hartford

The Corporation for Independent Living (CIL) joined Gov. Dannel Malloy, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, Mayor Luke Bronin...

🔒Windsor Lions Club donates $1,000 to CRIS radio

The Windsor Lions Club recently donated $1,500 to CRIS Radio, Connecticut's only radio-reading service for people who...
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🔒Power of long-term savings drives Prudential President Marcks

Christine Marcks recalls working in her father's pharmacy as a 13-year-old, growing up in Western Massachusetts. The work was minimal. The pay was minimum, about $1.60 an hour — and there was one non-negotiable condition.

🔒How ‘relationship bunnies’ build long-term business

This is a story about one of the Hartford Business Journal's Best in Business Award recipients. Pam Butterfield of Business Success Tools is that winner, and is the source of the admittedly strange title of this column — “relationship bunnies.”

🔒‘First Fiver’ CareCentrix carves out $1B homecare niche

Helping health insurers manage home-health benefits and control costs has been good business for Hartford-based CareCentrix.

🔒What fans, taxpayers get with a $250M XL Center makeover

State lawmakers have a difficult decision in the months ahead on whether or not to invest $250 million to renovate the aging XL Center.
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🔒Car business drives Pimentel’s career success

Job Pimentel began selling cars 31 years ago and never looked in the rearview mirror.

🔒Simsbury Bank makes $2,500 donation

Simsbury Bank has made a $2,500 donation to Simsbury Community Television's capital campaign. The campaign will raise...

🔒Nonprofit human-services sector in need of reforms

If I had the power to give homework to the members of the state legislature, their first assignment would be a book report on the 2017 Legislative Briefing Booklet prepared by the Connecticut Community Nonprofit Alliance, the leading state association that speaks for our nonprofits.

🔒Startup’s sensor tech aims for better bridge inspections

Q&A talks to Kevin McMullen, a UConn civil engineering graduate student who founded a startup called NexGen Infrastructure, which provides state-of-the-art bridge monitoring systems.
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🔒Time to bring back tolls to CT

Connecticut has an aging transportation infrastructure problem and the only logical way to help solve it is by reinstating tolls.

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Hartford Community Loan Fund Inc.

The Greater Hartford Auto Dealers Association recently donated $1,000 to Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters on behalf...

🔒New downtown eatery feeds on Hartford traffic

Gyro & Kabob House has occupied and opened in the former Jojo's Coffee Roasting Co. space at 22 Pratt St., next door to Sorella Restaurant, in downtown Hartford.

🔒Tips for building a successful blue-collar business

“Blue-Collar Gold — How to Build a Service Business from the Dirt Up” by Mark Stoner (Next...
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🔒UConn School of Business Dean Elected Officer of International Business-School Accreditation Program

John A. Elliott, the dean of the University of Connecticut School of Business, has been elected an...
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