Sept. 4, 2023 - Hartford Business Journal

Banking & Finance

🔒Multigenerational Shift: Navigating Great Wealth Transfer is a boon for attorneys, estate/investment planners

The Great Wealth Transfer is underway, on track to see an estimated $84 trillion pass from the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers down to younger generations by 2045.Legal and financial experts agree that ensuring hard-earned money is properly passed down takes more than a will and a way.Amid the generational shift, attorneys, accountants and financial […]

Politics & Policy

🔒Bordonaro: Next Hartford mayor needs a vision for city’s future

Where’s Hartford headed? What’s the vision to make the city the bustling metropolis it could and should...

Economy & Labor

🔒CT ranks among best states for work-location flexibility

Connecticut ranks as one of the top 10 states in work-location flexibility, according to a recent Flex...

Legal & Courts

🔒The risks of AI for law firms and their business clients

By now, many people have heard about the New York lawyer who got into trouble earlier this...

Economy & Labor

🔒Change to nursing OT law seen as nod to organized labor, doing little to address staffing crisis

A new state law, passed during the recent legislative session, reduces the number of circumstances under which...

Economic Development

🔒Startup indoor cycling league eyes Windsor arena; price tag could reach $80M

Mark Greenberg’s vision to develop a premium sports and entertainment complex in Windsor could get a major boost from a new venture hoping to popularize team cycling in the United States.

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Litchfield businessman Mark Greenberg doubles down on Windsor sports and entertainment complex

Whether it’s $4 million committed to a nearly complete sports dome, or plans to invest $7 million...

Retail

🔒Going Green: Car dealerships say they are ready for ‘electrification’ of auto industry

Connecticut is on track to join eight states in adopting new standards to slash vehicle emissions, an...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Charitable Mindset: The Walker Group transitions to unique trust-ownership model that ensures it will never be sold

As Kate Emery, founder of Farmington-based IT and digital marketing firm The Walker Group, considered retirement options,...

Energy

🔒From glass to concrete, CT company offers construction industry environmentally conscious cement alternative

A Connecticut manufacturer is hoping to help municipalities and contractors reach their clean energy goals through an innovative approach to making construction materials.

Politics & Policy

🔒Fonfara: Reducing poverty, workforce development key to Hartford’s future growth

Longtime state Sen. John Fonfara said he’s running for mayor of Hartford because he’s witnessed the city...

Banking & Finance

🔒New head of Union Savings Bank Reyes focused on growth, community investment

Chelen Reyes, who took over as president and CEO of Union Savings Bank in August, said he’s...

Economic Development

🔒Wave of single-family, build-to-rent properties crashes against Northeast’s high costs

Construction of single-family rental homes is a booming business in fast-growing southern and southwestern states, where undeveloped...

Economic Development

🔒Fairfield father-son development team makes big bet on increasingly popular single-family housing rentals

Over nearly 50 years in the real estate business, Connecticut Realty Trust Chairman Robert Kligerman has prospered in areas overlooked by others.

Sept. 4, 2023Edition

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