March 18, 2024 - Hartford Business Journal

Economy & Labor

🔒Opinion: CT’s disconnected youth crisis has an enormous human, economic cost

Connecticut finished 2023 with 94,000 job openings — about where we began the year and 27,000 more vacancies than in February 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world. Demand for workers continues to outstrip supply, with the state’s labor force — those working and those looking for work — declining by 14,300 people in […]

Economy & Labor

🔒Bordonaro: A solution looking for a problem? Tipped wage debate raises restaurant industry concerns

The March 5 issue of the Wall Street Journal had an eye-catching, front-page headline: “Costs Drive Menu...

Health Care

🔒As telehealth popularity persists, CT sees growth of virtual care clinics

Hartford HealthCare has launched a second OnMed telehealth site in the Capital City, after opening its first...

Health Care

🔒In growing outpatient bone and joint care market, Orthopedic Associates debuts storefront clinic

If you’re seeking a location for a new orthopedic clinic, it makes sense to open it just...

Cannabis

🔒Women-led cannabis startup looks to make its mark in Connecticut

A women-led, multistate cannabis startup is moving into the Connecticut market, eyeing a retail location in East...

Energy

🔒Federal, state incentives drive solar farms to landfills, other brownfields

West Hartford-based Verogy has struck deals to develop solar farms on three landfill sites in Connecticut, marking...

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒CT market is attracting more big, small coffee retailers

In the 1984 film, “Moscow on the Hudson,” Robin Williams stars as a musician for a Soviet...

Energy

🔒CT lawmakers propose new restrictions on private industry’s use of PFAS

While water utility companies await new PFAS regulation from the federal government, state lawmakers are also looking...

Energy

🔒New regulations that limit ‘forever chemicals’ will cost water utilities hundreds of millions, while raising concerns for businesses

Connecticut’s water utilities are bracing for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new limits on PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, which are at the center of lawsuits, health problems and, what some say is an environmental crisis.

Economic Development

🔒More multifamily developments sprout in Berlin, as town inches closer to affordable housing goal

The town of Berlin has been experiencing an apartment boom, with hundreds of new units coming online...

Politics & Policy

🔒CT’s AI bill could be model for U.S., but businesses wary of reporting requirements

With artificial intelligence increasingly working itself into the fabric of society and commerce, state lawmakers are attempting...

Real Estate & Construction

Hartford’s struggling office sector shows cracks with new foreclosure, falling property values

HBJ has a series of stories on significant new developments in Hartford's struggling office market.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Major downtown Hartford office complex faces foreclosure

A lender is seeking to foreclose on much of the Constitution Plaza office complex in downtown Hartford. In...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Fighting foreclosure, Shelbourne says lenders are withholding rents needed to keep 23-story Hartford office tower running

Shelbourne Global Solutions is claiming lenders trying to foreclose on its 23-story “Stilts Building” office tower in...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Market Reset: Hartford landlords’ successful property tax assessment appeals will cut millions from city tax rolls; more office sector storm clouds hover

The city of Hartford is poised to lose millions of dollars in property tax revenues, after successful...

Health Care

🔒Bill to allow chambers, trade groups to pool members for health benefits gains support

Legislation that would allow trade associations and chambers of commerce to pool their members and offer them...

Energy

🔒After years of work, state leaders say they’re close to replacing burdensome Transfer Act

Three years after state lawmakers agreed to replace the state’s burdensome system that governs environmental cleanups of...

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