U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced major enhancements to the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, a federal disaster relief loan designed to better serve and support our small business communities still reeling from the pandemic, especially hard-hit sectors such as restaurants, gyms, and hotels. The SBA is ready to receive new applications immediately from small businesses looking to take advantage of these new policy changes.

Key changes being announced by the SBA include:

The CT Dept. of Economic and Community Development’s (DECD) Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development (OBRD) announces the availability of $17 million in grant funding for eligible remediation and redevelopment projects under the Round 14 Municipal Grant Program.

Applications are due by 3:00 PM on Friday, October 22, 2021.

Click here for the detailed announcement, the Notice of Funding Availability, the Application Form, and Frequently Asked Questions. 

National Preparedness Month (NPM) is an observance each September to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time. The 2021 theme is “Prepare to Protect. Preparing for disasters is protecting everyone you love.”

For the first time in its history, the Ready Campaign, in partnership with the Ad Council, identified the Hispanic community as a key audience, and will launch a series of Public Service Advertisements specifically designed to encourage preparedness within the underserved demographic.

Jon Soderstrom has spent the last quarter-century waiting for Greater New Haven’s bioscience industry to catch up with his vision.

Since being recruited to lead Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research in 1996, Soderstrom has played a leading role in building an ecosystem that he hoped would one day put New Haven on the map as a nationally recognized biotech hub.

It appears to him that moment is about to arrive. Consider the evidence, he said, ticking off a list of recent headlines.

“People used to laugh and say ‘How are you going to do all this stuff?’ ” Soderstrom said in a recent Zoom interview from his home office in Madison. “And now it’s actually happening.” Read More

There certainly would be water views.

More apartments are being proposed for the city, this time along the harbor off Long Wharf Drive.

Lynn Fusco of Fusco Harbor Associates LLC and Fusco Maritime Associates LLC has submitted a petition to the Board of Alders to modify a Planned Development District approved in 1984 to allow construction of up to 500 units on a parcel bound by New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound.

The proposed site is on the south side of Long Wharf Drive on 4.3 acres between the Fusco’s Maritime Center and the Canal Dock Boathouse, on land that was home to a series of restaurants, the most recent being Lenny and Joe’s. Read More