A park and pedestrian-friendly walkway where cars now roar down Long Wharf Drive. 

An automotive trade school where the former Gateway Community College building is starting to crumble. 

A new home base for all of the APT Foundation’s New Haven substance-use treatment programs in a building specifically designed to address neighbors’ concerns.

Those ideas stand at the center of a new plan put together by top city officials on how to transform Long Wharf — a waterfront neighborhood currently dominated by big-box stores, parking lots, and the highway — into a mixed-use district bustling with education, healthcare, and outdoor recreation.

On Wednesday evening, Mayor Justin Elicker and a handful of city departments laid out further details of their vision for a more walkable and commercial Long Wharf at the Betsy Ross Parish Hall on Kimberly Avenue. Read More

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Connecticut is still working to regain all the jobs that it lost during the first couple months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But one of the state's most important sectors recently completed a comeback. 

The state finished 2022 with 161200 manufacturing jobs. With that total the state surpassed the number of positions in the sector that it had in February 2020 which was the last full month before Connecticut recorded its first COVID-19 case. 

While manufacturing’s recovery of thousands of positions since the spring of 2020 attests to the robust demand for Connecticut makers’ products further employment growth in 2023 is not a foregone conclusion. The state has the same number of manufacturing jobs as it did 10 years ago — and now as they did then manufacturers are struggling to fill all their openings. But today there is arguably more commitment to tackling the shortage. Read More