September 5, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Hartford’s investment real estate market offers opportunities

Hartford's investment real estate market is unique in that it tends to peak later than primary markets such as New York and Boston. At this late date in the current investment cycle, aggressive competition and highly priced properties in New York and Boston are driving many realty investors to secondary markets such as Hartford and Springfield, Mass. These investors are looking for relatively undervalued properties and more generous returns.

🔒Cardiac Care: Cornovus eyes heart failure remedy

The final installment of HBJ's series on bioscience concludes with a look at Cornovus Pharmaceuticals' development of a synthetic molecule that could keep heart muscles from dying.

🔒Keiler & Co.’s ex-Farmington home sells for $1.425M

The 26,361-square-foot former home to the defunct Keiler & Co. advertising-marketing agency recently sold for $1.425 million to a New York City apartment-commercial developer who is reimagining potential uses for the 8-acre property.

🔒Liquor retailers right on policy, wrong on breaking law

Two liquor retailers in Connecticut tried to publicly violate state law in recent weeks by skirting the state's longtime minimum pricing rules, deciding instead to sell some of their alcoholic beverages at cost.
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🔒Tips for winning business by focusing on consumers’ emotions

“All About Them — Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others” by Bruce Turkel (Da Capo Press,...

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Glastonbury-based GoodWorks Insurance recently gave a $2,500 GoodWorks Community Grant to the Granby Education Foundation. GoodWorks Community...

🔒Area nonprofits to test “March Madness” bracket fundraising model

There's perhaps no more exciting time for many Connecticut fans than when UConn's basketball teams take the court for the NCAA's March Madness tournament.

🔒Pratt & Whitney hosts STEM field day

Nearly 60 Pratt & Whitney volunteers came together recently at Manchester Community College for Pratt & Whitney's...
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🔒‘American Dream’ pursuit brings Liang to UConn, Cornovus

Connecticut Innovations is investing more than $1 million in Cornovus Pharmaceuticals, not just because of its promising heart medication, but also because of the doctor behind it.

🔒KeyCorp., First Niagara combo may widen the U.S. bank-merger spigot

In the past five years, Connecticut has had a front-row view of two of the nation's biggest bank mergers since before the Great Recession — and it may witness more, bankers say.

🔒Hooray for Total Wine, hisses for legislature

Connecticut's system of inflating the retail price of alcoholic beverages may not be unconstitutional and a violation of federal antitrust law, as the Total Wine & More beverage retailing chain recently charged in a lawsuit brought in federal court. But this argument against the system is not novel. Forty years ago a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Leonard Orland, made the same argument in support of the courageous effort of state Sen. Robert D. Houley (D-Vernon) to repeal the alcohol-pricing system.

🔒Local lemonade stand raises money for St. Francis hospital

For the sixth year, an enterprising group of neighborhood friends set up a lemonade stand in Burlington...
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🔒United Bank’s Joy among 2016 Women of Fire Award Winners

Melanie Joy, United Bank's senior vice president of regional commercial real estate lending, was selected by the...
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