12+ hour, 23+ min ago  (654+ words) After Simsbury's wetlands board signalled this week that it might soon reject the biggest affordable housing proposal in Connecticut, the powerful developer behind the plan cautioned that the final decision needs to be based on state law rather than "speculation....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (378+ words) Conventional wisdom says vegetable gardens need full sun, but a productive garden doesn't always require the recommended six to eight hours of direct sunlight. If fences, trees or your house cast shade on your soil, growing vegetables won't be out…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (609+ words) With a hearing less than a week away, the proposal for an enormous residential development along the waterfront in Farmington has drawn several letters of support citing the region's shortage of housing. Even though Farmington has had some extensive and…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1316+ words) One of the longest-running, far-reaching and intractable problems in Connecticut is affordable housing. Housing has been a gnarly and frustrating problem for a long time " despite persistent efforts by politicians that they have been working on the issue. The issue…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (549+ words) Aided by $2. 7 million of new state grants, New Britain will soon begin demolishing part of the blighted WW II-era Mount Pleasant public housing complex. A recent round of brownfield remediation funding will help the New Britain Housing Authority pay for…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (555+ words) As it works to complete 232 new apartments at The Spark in Newington, Anthony Properties broke ground for another 232-unit project in Manchester. Silk City Commons will be built on the site of the long-gone Manchester Parkade strip mall, and is…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (509+ words) With the long-abandoned Health Bridge nursing home finally demolished, a developer this week broke ground on what's planned as the biggest new apartment complex in Wethersfield in at least a decade. The first wave of units at the Jordan Lane…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (521+ words) The Boston-based real estate development firm undertaking an $85 million apartment complex in Windsor Locks is marking completion of a $56 million project that created 82 new apartments in Meriden's North End. Trinity Financial spent about 20 months converting the former Aeolian Co. factory…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (501+ words) The Simon Konover Co. broke ground Thursday for a 150-unit apartment complex along the Connecticut River, a project that East Hartford officials say will be a key step in transforming the town's waterfront. Billed as all market-rate apartments with extensive…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago  (620+ words) Residents at a standing-room-only hearing Tuesday night took turns criticizing the Silverman Group's proposal for a mammoth 689-unit housing complex, but they faced a setback when independent consultants reported the project wouldn't harm nearby wetlands. If the New Jersey-based Silverman…...