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White House Hopes to Boost CT Aerospace, Shipbuilding Fed Adds State To Special Manufacturing Communities List

By Ana Radelat The Obama administration has given Connecticut special status when it comes to seeking federal grants that would help the aerospace and shipbuilding sectors.

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In a statement, Gov. Dannel Malloy said the designation will allow the state to “accelerate and enhance our initiatives to boost innovation, worker skills, supply-chain capabilities, infrastructure investment and job creation.”

Since assuming office in 2009, President Obama has singled out the nation’s manufacturing sector as a driver of economic development. The designa-

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Tell Us What You Really Think

Still Cranky After All These Years: An Independent Publisher Has His Say – Again and Again and Again....

Mitchell Young, 64, is the founder, editor, and publisher of Business New Haven and New Haven magazine.

New Haven magazine is looking great, but given competition from the Hartford Courant’s magazine how is it going?

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For 39 years, he’s been part of and watched the evolution of greater New Haven’s business community. Late last winter he announced that changes would be coming to the publications as he addressed a management change and the needs of the marketplace that preceded it. The questions for this interview were assembled from conversations Young has had in recent weeks with business people and journalists about business in the region and the future of the independent publishing company.

There isn’t room for two city lifestyle magazines in New Haven. Sooner of later there will be only one the region’s maketers will have to decide which one is better for New Haven.

Our readers across the region LOVE and have embraced New Haven magazine as they did Business New Haven years ago, and there are tens of thousands of them.

Whether we can continue to grow and last until The Hartford Courant realizes they are not taking care of their core Hartford region readership, and that there is no real money in niche markets for billion dollar outfits, we’ll just have to wait and see.

••• You announced changes to Business New Haven and New Haven magazine, where do things stand?

How, as a small company, can you compete in the media marketplace?

We’re about half way in on Business New Haven not quite as far with New Haven magazine.

We’ve been doing the opposite of what most magazines and competitors have done; we’re increasing our quality in every way possible for us in both publications.

Complacency is not an option for anyone today.

We are increasing what we write about overall, and adding more “departments” to run on a regular basis. Involving interesting people in our coverage has always been a big reason why readers are attracted, and we are doing even more of that.

We’ve also done some redesign work in both publications.

If someone in Ohio reads an article in one of our magazines and likes it, it was probably the wrong piece. Our goal is to be obsessively local to the New Haven region and Connecticut.

We noticed that you are listed as Editor and Publisher for both Business New Haven and New Haven magazine, why did you take this additional role?

Late last year, our founding editor left after a dispute on numerous fronts.

For the changes I wanted to make, it was just easier with no one in the way.

My motto is “if it ain’t broke, break it.”

Not everyone handles that well.

How are the changes affecting Business New Haven?

The most easily noticed is that we’ve upped the ante on printing quality, no newsprint style publication beats us.

We’re trying to take advantage of the reduction in local news coverage, including state government reporting, by working with some media partners that do a good job but don’t have presence to our audience.

It seems that the story mix is different now?

It is wider and in the past few months, we reported on a fair number of very important business stories that received very little attention elsewhere.

Two stories were arguably among the biggest business stories in New Haven and the state, but they weren’t covered by the Register, the Hartford Courant, WTNH, any radio, or TV.

Readers will recall our reporting on New Haven biotech start-up, Arvinas Pharmaceuticals, which made a $434 million collaboration deal with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Achillion Pharmaceuticals, was formed in New Haven in 2000, and inked a billion dollar plus deal with Johnson & Johnson.

Going low-end with generic stories and low quality paper has knocked many established magazines out of business or to just online. The trend has now changed to do what we’ve done – increase quality, including production and delivery expense.

Achillion is a public company and the deal ended speculation on the sale of the company and brought in $225 million up front.

I can still visualize the first pictures of a virus printed by Life Magazine in the mid nineteen sixties, but if ISIS was torturing me I couldn’t tell you what I read on the Internet last week.

A billion and a half dollars expected to come into two New Haven biotech companies over the next few years?

We are not in the news business, we are in the presentation business – that’s where we excel in local media.

The fact that we are basically the only ones that covered them says something about what we’re doing, but also says something about what is not being done by other local media.

We don’t see much of an online effort?

We have very clear ideas about who we’re looking for as an audience and we’re not distracted by anything. The reader target for Business New Haven, for example, is not very accessible online – despite what digital advocates Continued on page 6

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U.S. Government Gives Itself an “A” In Small Business Federal Government Using Contracting Goals to Get More Small Businesses Hired

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he federal government reached its small business federal contracting goal for the second consecutive year. The federal government awarded 24.99 percent of federal contracts to small businesses, the highest percentage of contracting dollars awarded to small businesses since the 23 percent goal was established in 1997.

Small businesses received a total of $91.1 billion in federal contracts, an increase of $8 billion (over FY 2013) in small business contracting dollars.

SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet made the announcement during a press conference at the Pentagon with Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics at the Department of Defense (DOD).

DOD received an “A” on the procurement scorecard for its contract goal achievements.

The SBA has worked with federal agencies to expand opportunities

for small businesses to compete for and win federal contracts.

Alongside the announcement, the SBA released the FY 2014 Small Business Procurement Scorecard, which provides an assessment of each federal agency’s yearly small business contracting achievement against its goal with 20 agencies receiving an A or A+.

Small businesses received a total of $91.1 billion in federal contracts, an increase of $8 billion over FY 2013.

The following agencies received an A+ on their contract goal achievements: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Commerce (DOC), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Entrepreneurs, Preheat Your Ovens Connecticut Joins 36 Other States in Enacting Cottage Foods Law

Recently, the Connecticut Legislature voted to approve a Cottage Foods Law for Connecticut, allowing the Department of Public Health to regulate home-based food businesses. Previously, home-based food businesses, home bakeries and similar outfits were not legal in the State, but with the adoption of the new Cottage Foods Law, Connecticut will “allow the preparation of food in a private residential dwelling for sale for human consumption.”

The new law takes effect on October 1, 2015. Home bakeries and food businesses will be regulated by the Department of Health in accordance with a licensing, permit, or inspection process to be determined by officials. This is good news for many in the food industry. Small business owners looking to cut costs can lower expenses by preparing food at a home-based kitchen rather than an expensive commercial kitchen space.

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Women’s New Retirement Realities

By Donna M. Phelan

the most cautious outlook for retirement.

Although it is improving, there is an economic cost to being a woman that reverberates into retirement.

It results from multiple long-term socio-economic conditions.

The first is that women have consistently earned less than men, and real wages have stagnated. Currently women earn about one-fourth less than men. The disparities are even greater for black women, who earn about 30 percent less and Hispanic women, who earn about 40 percent less, according to Census data. The Center for American Progress calculates that over a forty-year career life, that difference may add up to $300,000 for lower earners, $431,000 for average earners and $723,000 for higher earners.

Women are also less likely than men to start their careers in, or get promoted to management positions. Women comprise only 5 percent of CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies.

A 2014 Grant Thornton International Business Report survey, featured in the March 6, 2014 issue of Forbes, found that the number of women in senior management has “stagnated” at 24 percent since 2007.

Women are more likely to leave the workforce for childcare and eldercare, redirecting their resources of time, money and energy away from retirement saving and hindering career

progress. Women who leave the workforce for caregiving also incur consequences for Social Security. Women receive about one-fourth less than men in Social Security benefits, $13,236 versus $17,004. Nearly 30 percent of women over age 65 rely on Social Security for virtually all of their income, a rate that increases with age.

The percent of women older than 65 living below the poverty level of $11,670 was 11 percent versus 6.6 percent for men, and 18.9 percent versus 11.9 percent for those living alone.

Women also tend to work in industries that don’t offer retirement plans, so they miss the opportunity for wealth building through an employer match. With women’s average income hovering around $38,345, it is difficult to see how women would have any discretionary income left over for retirement saving.

Marital status is also a factor. Married women fare best, divorced and widowed women next best. Nevermarried single women incur

New strategies are needed if women are going to thrive in retirement. Women should consider working longer in their careers, and part-time in retirement.

Women should also consider non-traditional residence sharing – renting out empty bedrooms, getting a roommate, and downsizing. With the savings from reduced housing expenses, women could make financial investments in income-producing vehicles.

Women need to understand the role they play in their own retirement and take responsibility. They need to become financially literate and realize they will need income for life. Women need to create stackable income streams to empower their retirement security and meet their monthly spending needs.

Women should also start talking to other women about retirement planning.

What are their friends doing to prepare for retirement?

They might discover that they have ideas, talents and resources to share with other women, which might enhance the retirement planning experience and success of a larger scope of women.

Donna M. Phelan is theAuthor of Women, Money and Prosperity: A Sister’s Perspective on How to Retire Well

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OCKY HILL: Connecticut Innovations, Connecticut’s Venture Capital arm, has appointed Matthew McCooe as its new chief executive officer.

McCooe, 47, was the founding managing partner and fund manager focusing on investments in communications, green technologies, software and computer vision for Chart Venture Partners (CVP).

Prior to CVP, he worked at Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures (STV), where he managed a large portfolio of spinout companies and what CI says was “deployment of Columbia’s highly profitable seed fund.”

Adding, “during his tenure at Columbia, nearly a dozen portfolio companies went public or were acquired by publicly traded companies.”

Prior to Columbia, McCooe co-founded Eureka Networks, a communications and application software organization that sold for $110

million. Earlier in his career, he managed product development, sales, marketing, and new product rollouts for two Fortune 500 companies, Becton Dickinson and MCI. McCooe has a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College. He has served as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Innovation Ecosystem Initiative, and consults for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the Defense Venture Catalyst/Potomac Institute, where he identifies and helps speed the adoption of emerging technologies that meet the U.S. government’s technology requirements.

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might say. We are not focused on the business-interested person, but rather on business decision makers.

I’ve been through many major media phenomenon: FM Radio, Alternative Newspapers, Direct Mail, Banner Ads, now it’s Mobil – and now “native [essentially advertorial] advertising.”

Eventually, the media moves back to audience and content quality and the noise about methods subsides.

When we’re happy with the changes in the print product we’ll worry again about online.

What changes or coverage should we take note of in New Haven magazine?

Subscribe and you’ll see many, but two quick items come to mind. We have started providing coverage about local food more widely; locally manufactured products, craft beer, local wines, recipes, ethnic restaurants, but not just restaurant reviews.

I have irritated some by saying the average New Havener can name five arts organizations but not many artists.

We’re featuring some really outstanding visual artists and their work with the goal of changing that.

Is this focus about building the economy?

Art shouldn’t be attached to issues of economic development, it shouldn’t be promoted as a tool for economic development. If it is, then we have to measure it against all other economic development tools.

If we encourage creativity we will likely get an economic benefit, but that’s not how we see the purpose of art.

How strong is the business of art in New Haven?

Not so great. The music scene just received a boost with the reopening of the Palace Theater as the College Street Music Hall, but the music scene was far stronger here in the seventies than it is now. For a region that is dependent on attracting young people, we need to be encouraging to the music young people are interested in today.

Today’s local leaders seem more at odds with the music of the youth culture than the folks that arrested Jim Morrison at the Coliseum.

Theater, thankfully, continues to grow with the addition of some new theater groups, but a robust summer theater would be a great addition..

In terms of visual arts, we will know the region’s visual arts efforts are successful when the region’s artists and notably, Yale’s art students, want to show, demand their work be seen in New Haven, which is not the case now.

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You started The New Haven Advocate, how did you feel that it was shut down by The Hartford Courant?

That start-up was a long time ago in 1975 and I left in 1991 after 18 years at the chain, then we fought for a few years over buying back my share, etc.

The Hartford Courant later bought The Advocate newspapers. The Hartford Courant sold the original Valley Advocate in Western Massachusetts and that paper continues to publish as do ninety five percent of the alternative newspapers in the country.

By the time The Hartford Courant closed The New Haven Advocate, they sucked so much life out, it was more like a mercy killing.

The Hartford Courant’s purchase of The Advocate never made sense to me. My wife said they bought it so they could profit from the huge number of sex ads.

At the time I thought that was a stretch.

Well why did you run those ads?

Whoa – we didn’t run those ads while I was in charge of advertising there.

There were two founders of the Advocate: Geoff Robinson and Edward Matys; they were copy editors at The Hartford Courant.

Robinson was a Yale grad and from New Haven, his dad, Frank Robinson, was a noted neurosurgeon in New Haven. His younger sister Dorothy became counsel for Yale; she just retired.

In spite of the New Haven connection, the pair started up The Advocate in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1973. I joined on the first day.

Matys was the visionary, and his vision was we would be in competition with the Sunday paper, we had a conservative community oriented non-sexist ad policy. With a sixties libertarian bent, we were, however, among the first to run personal ads for gay matchups.

Matys left in the early eighties because he wanted more expansion, Robinson mostly just didn’t want to work for someone else.

The sex and prostitution ads came soon after I left.

During its ownership of The Advocate Newspapers, the Hartford Courant earned millions off of prostitution ads and defended them on many occasions.

The Valley Advocate dropped the ads soon after the Hartford Courant sold it.

You created a dust up over the Advocate’s escort ads a couple of years back?

When The Hartford Courant came into the New Haven market with a magazine and an announcement that they would put New Haven magazine out of

business in ninety days, I wanted to teach them a lesson.

practice, you need lots of expensive chemical fertilizer and pesticide.

I pointed out to businesses that the Hartford Courant’s concern for the New Haven community wasn’t genuine.

They had defended running prostitution ads even after their own papers wrote that the ads included underage and trafficked young women and men.

What impact did the recent tax and budget controversy have?

The Hartford Courant resisted calls from women’s groups, lawmakers, law enforcement to drop the ads. Senator Blumenthal and other senators pressured a chain of alternative newspapers to drop prostitution ads but the Hartford Courant wouldn’t budge.

I’m pretty libertarian, I have no problem with the life choices individuals make, but The Tribune is the only multi-billion dollar company in the country that was pimping your boys and girls and then defending it.

After fifteen years of running prostitution ads, within several weeks of my outreach, the ads were removed from both the Hartford and New Haven Advocate. Not long after with the pimping revenue gone, The Hartford Courant folded the Advocate.

Tribune/Courant should correct its mistake by donating those profits to someone like New Haven’s anti-sex trafficking non-profit, Love 146.

So the answer to the question is, if your kid grows up to be a pimp, better that you disown it.

• There is a negative narrative about Connecticuts business costs what do you hear now?

We cover a lot of state rankings, there’s one in this issue, a multi-year report card on manufacturing and logistics from Ball University, for example.

The grade on taxes even before this year’s budget was bad [a D], but the state gets its only failing grade on nonsalary worker costs; health insurance, unemployment and worker’s compensation expenses. These costs are so high, in large part because of state government mandates and management.

The problem for Connecticut is not so much companies leaving because of costs as it is about companies not locating here or thriving because of them.

Today companies large and small outsource a great deal of products and services. This business shift is causing an impact on job growth in the state.

It’s not just manufacturing, it is in every business, including services.

These losses are harder to identify.

Lawmakers and opinion leaders miss what is going on inside of businesses.

The focus is on incentives, planning, industries, who’s moving in or out. In gardening, if you have poor soil and

It is hard to understand how this communication disconnect with these major companies took place.

Every business person I talked to was really angry, even those that weren’t necessarily affected directly.

Business owners and managers have no tolerance for the lack of understanding by lawmakers or the public on how hard it is to succeed today.

The CEOs of GE and Aetna are considered two of the most liberal in the country. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt was President Obama’s point man with other big companies on jobs and Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has been aggressively promoting a $16 per hour minimum wage to major companies across the country. He raised wages at Aetna for those making less.

If you have these guys questioning you and then you attack them, what do you think the more typical and conservative CEOs are going to think?

There has been a lot of buzz about Start-Ups, do you see this as a strategy that is working?

We have seen a growing number of companies starting up and becoming successful, much is hyped but overall there is somewhat more respect and interest in start-ups and home-grown companies, but not nearly enough.

A great example of this is a successful company with a very unique service offering “citizen engagement,” at Ben Berkowitz’s SEECLICKFIX. This company has an outstanding client base of cities and towns across the country. It has tens of thousands of users and across our border in Massachusetts, cities signed on to a network that they built for the state.

Here in “blue state” Connecticut, Seeclickfix, with a couple of exceptions like the City of New Haven and Connecticut Innovations, we treat them like chopped liver.

One thing that is cheap in Connecticut is economic development talk.

Every town manager, mayor and first selectman in the state should be learning about and from this company. They make cities and towns and their leadership more successful and frankly, Ben probably can’t say it, but much more powerful – but hey “how good could they be, they’re from here.”

Part of creating a culture of start-up success is working with young innovative companies, buying from and promoting them. It is how governments and business embrace start-ups in places like Boston, San Francisco,

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Brooklyn, Austin and it is what we need to do in this region and the state.

Millennials will be out to the suburbs like their parents and grandparents.

After all, I do have a pretty big self interest in New Haven and the region.

How is the City of New Haven itself doing?

In fact, we already hear constantly from young New Haven citizens that are starting families about the need to move out to address family issues.

In the last month, the Hartford Courant, WNBC CT, WTNH and the national foodie website tastingtable. com have all done features on the city and the concept. There was no effort on anyone’s part to promote to them, it was strictly organic.

I first pounded the pavement in downtown New Haven in 1975. The baby boomers were moving into the cities.

That demographic trend ended and things got very tough for New Haven and cities generally in the eighties and into the nineties.

Is this about crime in the city and the region?

In the past five years we’ve seen a billion plus dollars of new investment, led largely by out of state investors and they’re all doing very well and more investment is continuing to come.

If you watch local TV news or spend much time on the Internet comment posts of the New Haven Register or WTNH, you would think you live in a war zone. The view you see and hear of this region and in New Haven is that your neighbor’s house is about to catch fire, while you’re out dodging bullets.

Millennials, like their parents and grandparents did in the seventies, are pouring into cities, they are a bigger demographic group [eight million more] than the Boomers were.

The public’s demands for safety are much higher today in the city because so many people grew up in suburbs but New Haven is so much safer than it has been for decades.

Demographics will continue to lift New Haven for another few years, then things are going to get dicey again.

Literally thousands of women, many young, have moved to New Haven in the past five years or so, largely from suburban towns. These women have their own networks of friends and family and they wouldn’t be moving to the city if they felt it was unsafe.

The myth is the inflow is happening because of a “new urbanism.” In the seventies in New Haven, we were all over The Greening of America by Yale Professor Charles Reich. Boomers wanted to live in a city then too, but demographics are destiny and the suburbs were the eventual destination.

For New Haven, schools better be really good, taxes better be in check, housing will have to be affordable, or in spite of the feel good urban rhetoric, green transportation blah, blah, the

You have promoted the Greatest Small City In America concept [#gscia], we’ve seen a bunch of press lately, where does this stand?

This concept was started on social media about eighteen months ago by folks I refer to as New Haven’s dreamers and doers, and I have helped it along.

With the exception of the apparently out of touch WTNH that said that the effort was started two weeks ago by Connecticut Magazine [they’ve never written about it], the reports were mostly accurate and very positive.

The most telling thing was that the writer from tastingtable.com, which was highlighting the great food in the region, explained this was a selfchosen description by New Haven folks and the city did in fact deserve the title – Greatest Small City In America.

The writer was a former Yale student.

From the seventies till recently – one thing we could rely on was that once Yale students left New Haven, they weren’t saying nice things about it.

We had hoped that the city and its marketing efforts would incorporate and build the concept, but at this point I think they may be making themselves irrelevant in the imaging of the city.

In a recent article in New Haven magazine on Genocide, you seemed to suggest that you were suffering from Cancer but didn’t use that word. Are you willing to clarify?

I didn’t use the word because the goal of the article was to highlight the Armenian Genocide and that too many people, including our President, were not willing to use the word Genocide.

I wanted to make the point that using the real word matters, or you allow for uncertainty and confusion. It may have been subtle, but it mattered to me.

We just saw this play out recently with Vladmir Putin challenging the use of the word Genocide to refer to the slaughter in Bosnia.

Yes, I have Cancer. I am not suffering from it; I am not battling it. The cancer poses some very difficult personal challenges, but I am living with it.

This of course may change, but that is the current situation, I have been lucky in many ways.

I do have an advanced cancer diagnosis and I have been getting a variety of treatments at Yale’s Smilow Cancer Center for around sixteen months.

The treatments have resulted in some positive progress. There is a reasonable chance now that with continuing treatments, I will be around a lot longer than those SOBs from Hartford will like and my creditors require.

I am very grateful to and proud of the folks at Smilow. I watch them, especially the oncology nurses with folks that are suffering and how diligent and compassionate they are. In that sense, we are all very lucky and we can use the “Greatest...” hashtag #GSCIA next to their name, too. BNH

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Obama Since assuming office in 2009, President sector has singled out the nation’s manufacturing The designaas a driver of economic development.

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Fairfield Democrat Jim Himes broke with Connecticut Democrats to support the fast track trade deal.

Himes defended his vote to angry callers on Connecticut Public Radio that Connecticut [and Fairfield County] was a leading exporter and that what critics called the lack of transparency of the negotiations were typical.

He reminded one union official that the AFL-CIO’s own labor negotiations, as well as the current nuclear negotiations, were examples highlighting how sensitive negotiations were not typically done publicly. He said he and the other Congressional representatives had full access to the details of the deal, and as such, were not really secret.

The Senate approved the Trade Promotion Authority [TPA], or Rookie Senator Chris “fast-track” by 60 to Murphy couldn’t get 38, with 13 Senate his “Buy American” Democrats voting for provision to a vote. the bill. Some of the Democrats who voted for the measure are often described as “hardcore liberals,” including Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington State, Diane Feinstein of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

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Himes, as well as the liberal senators, cited the importance of exports to their states. United Technologies as well as the General Electric companies, both headquartered in Connecticut, are among the country’s largest exporters.

Passage of the TPA does not guarantee that the actual Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will receive Congressional approval – but the Congress is limited to an up or down vote on the entire package.

DeLauro [D-3rd District] has been a New Haven’s leading opponent to the Rosa DeLauro fast track bill and had quarterbacked the predicted that her no vote - but came colleagues would reject up a few votes short. it. The House, however, passed the bill with a slim ten point margin, only twenty-eight House Democrats voted for the bill. Fifty congressional Republicans joined a handful of Republican Senators voting against it, including Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Senior Senator Blumenthal “defied” President Obama as thirteen Senate Democrats support President on trade.

The twelve countries covered by the TPP are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States.

Himes offered the example that the bill could help open up Japan’s automobile market, which is effectively closed to the U.S. which has virtually no current market share.

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“Egg-Head Economy” Gets Booster Shots

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Generator Company Powers Up In the Wake Of Power Outages Berlin Company Buys Clinton Generator Supplier CLINTON- CT Home Generator Systems (CTHGS) bought out the entire generator division of Acorn Bernier Electric in Clinton.

Acorn-Bernier Electric is also a certified Generac dealer that has been serving the

town of Clinton, CT and shoreline areas since 1991.

Additionally, CTHGS has partnered with Home Depot to become the exclusive

Tech Companies Get Venture Funding

Greater New Haven’s knowledge economy continues to get a boost with another round of venture capital invested into local enterprises.

Branford-based Core Informatics, a developer of data management software used to accelerate scientific innovation, received $17.5 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, a Greenwich based growth-equity fund focused on healthcare information and financial technology. Core’s existing investors also participated in the funding round.

Andrew Adams, a general partner at Oak HC/FT will join Core’s board of directors, he said. “drug discovery, molecular diagnostics, and other scientific domains are seeing tremendous transformation and yet the industry still lags in terms of software solutions to support this important work,” adding, “Core Informatics is closing that gap.”

Josh Geballe, Core Informatics CEO, explained, “this round of capital will equip us to meet the strong demand for our software.”

Core Informatics says it has tripled in size in just over a year by providing flexible, web-based solutions to manage and analyze scientific data, automate laboratory workflows and collaborate with external partners.

New Haven-based Melinta Therapeutics, formerly known as RiB-X with a facility at 300 George Street also has raised new venture funding, picking up $67 million in new equity financing led by Irish biotech fund Malin Corp. PLC a venture capital investor, [see page 24]. The company was founded on technology developed by Nobel Prize winner Thomas Steitz, Ph.D of Yale.

installer and service provider for every Generac generator sold at 11 of the chain’s 18 stores in CT. CTHGS services generators purchased at the Berlin, Manchester, West Hartford, Enfield, Glastonbury, Lisbon, Bloomfield, Windham and Middletown stores, while handling electrical sales in the Southington, South Southington, Waterbury, Wallingford, New Hartford and Bristol stores of the Home Depot chain.

Newington Electric Company is the parent company of Connecticut Home Generator Systems, founded in 1958.

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} MANUFACTURING HELP The White House cited a $30 million Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund, approved by the state legislature in 2014, as part of the reason it decided to give Connecticut special status. tion of special manufacturing regions — this is the second round of such designations — is part of the president’s campaign.

The White House said the “manufacturing communities” have forged strong economic development plans and deep partnerships between the public and private sectors, “positioning themselves for strong economic growth in the years ahead.” The efforts make these communities eligible to go to the front of the line when applying for federal grants related to manufacturing, said Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

“These communities will be able to better respond to industry needs,” Pritzker said.

Connecticut is one of a dozen manufacturing communities designated by the White House Wednesday.

Others include the Greater Pittsburgh Metals Manufacturing Community in Pittsburgh, and the Alamo Manufacturing Partnership in the San Antonio, Texas, metropolitan area.

About 40 communities applied for the special designation.

Pritzker said Connecticut and the 11 other communities chosen to participate will receive the coordinated support of 11 federal agencies and preferential consideration for more than $1.3 billion in existing federal grant programs.

DECD Commissioner Catherine Smith said, “This puts us ahead of the pack” when it comes to seeking federal grant money.

“It’s terrific to get this designation,” Smith said. “It’s a recognition that the state has something that can be built upon.”

A White House release said, “The Connecticut Advanced Manufacturing Communities Region is positioning itself to soar on growth in aerospace technologies and the latest class of submarines, after pioneering in aerospace and naval manufacturing for 100 years.”

Smith said Connecticut’s new designation would help fund “a number of ini-

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tiatives,” including workforce training and new trade efforts.

Give Your Bottom Line a Boost

There’s evidence American manufacturing is in an upswing.

But last month the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said manufacturing in Connecticut slumped last year. The BEA report said manufacturing of durable goods, a sector that includes most aerospace manufacturing and shipbuilding, fell slightly from $19.4 billion in output in 2013 to $18.7 billion last year.

Total manufacturing in Connecticut in 2014 was $27 billion, down slightly from $27.8 billion in 2013.

The White House cited a $30 million Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund, approved by the state legislature in 2014, as part of the reason it decided to give Connecticut special status.

The fund, administered by the DECD, aims to help manufacturers with equipment, research and development, and training. It was also established to help attract new manufacturers to the state.

Connecticut’s federal lawmakers were confident the designation would help boost the state’s manufacturing sector.

“Last year, we joined with the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development to seek this designation because we knew it would help us win more federal grants, job training dollars, and new business opportunities at home and abroad,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.

Connecticut will receive the support of 11 federal agencies and preferential consideration for more than $1.3 billion in existing federal grant programs.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said the designation “will help ensure that our vital manufacturing community continues to expand and innovate with the support of strong educational partnerships, cross-industry collaboration and outreach.”

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Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, said Connecticut›s ecosystem of small and large manufacturers, academia, and groups like the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology leaves Connecticut uniquely qualified to train the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.

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Making It From The Middle Mid-Market Companies Are Core Connecticut Exporters

By Mitchell Young

businesses, they make an outsized economic contribution across industries.

Slightly more than one in five dollars (21%) of U.S. business revenues come from the middle market, and these firms employ over one in four workers (28%) in the private sector.”

Adding, “middle market companies have led job growth since 2008, with a 4.4% increase in private sector employment—outperforming both smaller businesses (less than $10 million in revenues) and the largest companies (more than $1 billion in revenues).

While small firms employ the largest share of the country’s workforce, the report finds the middle market created 2.1 million (92%) of the nearly 2.3 million net new jobs added during the past seven years.”

According to the report, nearly 98% of middle market enterprises are privately-owned. On average, middle market businesses employ 368 workers and generate $45.1 million per firm per year.

Ninety-two Connecticut companies within the sales range of $10 million to a billion dollars make up the bulk of exporting in the cohort according to an AMEX and Dun and Bradstreet report.

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s export issues have become the controversy of the last few weeks, American Express and Dun & Bradstreet have teamed up to present a report on exporting. The report focused on mid- market companies [$10 million to one billion in sales]. Government data as well as D&B’s proprietary data were used.

The report indicates there are 1,953 middle market firms in Connecticut and 92 of those are engaged in exporting. Most similar studies focus on manufactured goods, but D&B’s data includes companies that fit the size model, but may export services rather than tangible goods.

The 92 mid-market exporters make up 5% of Connecticut’s middle market firms.

Nationally, in Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary database, there are more than 136,000 middle market firms with 7,066 engaged in exporting, also accounting for 5% of middle market firms.

Julie Weeks, Research Advisor to American Express, explained some of the potential for more exports, saying, “when you’re looking at the data, a lot of manufacturing and wholesale, I think where the growth opportunities are in other industries, goods, transportation, services, even real estate, there is a great opportunity in international markets.”

She added, “it can be daunting if there are cultural barriers but technology is making it a whole lot easier. If [for example customers] they’re ordering online you don’t have to have a physical footprint. Also many businesses don’t realize how much is available from the government and even foreign embassies to help. A business owner should look and see what help if available from local state or trade missions or trade fairs. There is a lot of assistance out there.”

Dun & Bradstreet’s press release says it “analyzes the state of middle market companies and finds that while these companies comprise less than 1% of U.S.

Condolence Card To Connecticut After Sixty Three Years, Famed Greeting Card Company To Leave

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NFIELD: The Hallmark Company will be closing its one million square foot distribution center, first opened in 1980, by the end of June 2016.

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business, owns Crayola Crayons, the Hallmark Cable Channel, some entertainment and hotel locations.

Hallmark has told its 570 Enfield employees they can apply for positions at the Liberty Distribution Center in Liberty Missouri, where 400 positions will be added as it consolidates its distribution centers.

“In recent years, we have made significant improvements in distribution and inventory management practices,” Dave Hall, president of Hallmark North

America, said in a release. “As a result, we can fulfill and ship the required product volume in a timely manner from a single location. Liberty was selected because it is the larger of the two facilities and its central location provides shipment advantages for a vast majority of Hallmark’s retailers and customers.”

Employees not being hired at Liberty or choosing not to relocate will be offered a severance package.

Pedaling & APizza

Event to Feature Professional Cycling, Pizza Trucks

The CT Cycling Advancement Program (CCAP) along with the City of New Haven, will hold the New Haven Grand Prix (NHGP) cycling race on September 18 coinciding with the Apizza Feast on College Street and the Crossroads Festival. The four-corner route for cyclers, after starting on Chapel, is a right on High Street, right on Elm Street, right on Temple Street and then right back onto Chapel. The event is sanctioned by USA Cycling and is considered a professional race, part of the National Racing Criterium Calendar. The Grand Prix will consist of three races: an under-18 race, which runs 20 laps around the rectangle; a professional women’s race, also 20 laps; and a 40-lap (or approximately 48-50 mile) professional men’s race. To register, head to BikeReg.com.

Taste of New Haven is presenting APizza Feast from 4 to 10p.m. The APizza Feast is a pizza and food truck festival and a beer garden celebrating New Haven’s rich pizza heritage featuring the biggest and best pizza from the Greater New Haven area.

APizza Feast will allow visitors six hours to try the legendary historic pizzerias along with a sampling of new wave pizza makers. College Street will be closed to vehicle traffic as it is transformed into a block party for the night, and exclusively set aside for race spectators and food truck fans.

Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the event.

In addition to pizza and racing, the event will feature mountain bike demos, climbing wall, spinning bike exhibitions, live music and outdoor vending for the race-goers from 4pm8pm. NHGP sponsors committed to date are: Yale University, HealthyCT and The Kempner Fund.

The CCAP is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization with a mission to better the lives of youth and young adults through the sport of cycling.

Its goal is to provide opportunities in cycling both in and out of schools, through high school cycling clubs, parks and recreation programs and youth travel teams. After less than two years of existence, the CCAP has established more than 21 school and recreation programs across the state with over 400 participants.

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Bill Checklist: What’s New In State?

New Laws Bring Changes To Wide Range Of Business Concerns

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egislators considered hundreds of bills during the recent session that ended June 3, and only a fraction made it through both chambers. (Some got revived in a budget implementation bill that passed during the June 29 special session.)

subject of collective bargaining. Unions have pushed for this bill but lobbying groups for cities and towns oppose it.

ENERGY RELIABILITY: The legislation allows the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to use many different energy sources for long-term power contracts as a way to insure reliable electricity, especially in winter. Those sources can include many kinds of renewables as well as energy efficiency and energy storage – both of which were added during negotiations. But power procurement is still mainly geared towards natural gas – something that continues to concern environmental advocates.

The following proposals became law by passing the House and the Senate, and subsequently being signed by the Governor:

CASINO EXPANSION: A proposal to authorize the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations to jointly build at least one casino off tribal lands has been greatly watered down, delaying any significant legislative decision on expansion until next year. The revised version would allow the tribes to open negotiations with municipalities interested in hosting a casino, something that could be done without explicit legislative approval. Authorization to build would require a legislative vote in 2016.

E-CIGARETTE RESTRICTIONS: The result of a compromise, this measure would prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes and vapor products in places where smoking is banned, including state buildings, restaurants, bars, schools, day cares and health care facilities. Because the Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue federal regulations on e-cigarettes, the bill also requires the legislature’s Public Health Committee to hold a hearing to determine if additional action is needed once the FDA finalizes its rule.

TELEMEDICINE: The use of telemedicine – which can range from patients seeing doctors via video on a smartphone app to remote monitoring of patients in rural areas – is expected to become more common in health care. Connecticut has virtually no standards for the practice, and this bill would create some, including prohibiting telehealth providers from prescribing controlled substances and requiring they provide patients’ primary care providers with records from the interaction if the patient consents.

HEALTH CARE POOLING: This controversial proposal would allow cities and towns, school districts and other public employers to buy their health insurance through the state employee health plan. It would make participation in the state plan a mandatory

Health, Labor, Environment Bills Revived In Special Session

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wide range of legislative priorities that failed to clear both chambers of the General Assembly before the June 3 end of the regular session won final approval Tuesday, June 30 as part of a massive budget implementation bill (“the implementer”).

Here are some of the key parts of the bill related to taxes, labor, and environment.

PROPERTY TAXES FOR NONPROFIT COLLEGES, SOME HOSPITALS:

The implementer removes the property tax exemption long held by nonprofit hospitals and colleges for certain facilities.

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CONSUMER PROTECTIONS IN BANKING: This bipartisan bill would broaden consumer protections against online financial threats ranging from payday loans to identity theft. It would punish lenders who ignore the state’s limit of 12-percent on short-term loans by rendering those loans uncollectable. Other provisions of the bill would give the Banking Department greater authority to regulate virtual currencies, such as bitcoin, and give victims of identify theft the right to bar credit rating agencies from releasing credit information without their permission. With a socalled “security freeze,” lenders cannot gain access to a consumer’s credit file unless the consumer thawed the file with a code, similar to a PIN number.

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System and Hartford HealthCare are subject to property tax on off-campus properties acquired after Oct. 1. The two — which together include eight hospitals: Yale-New Haven, Bridgeport, Greenwich, Hartford, Backus and Windham hospitals; MidState Medical Center; and The Hospital of Central Connecticut — are subject to the bill’s provisions because they had more than $1.5 billion in net patient revenue in the 2013 fiscal year.

Nonprofit colleges also will have to pay property tax on student housing, dormitories excluded. Several of the state’s major colleges would not be affected: Connecticut College, Hartford Seminary, Trinity College, Wesleyan University and portions of Yale, including the college.

The measure was developed in response to concerns that hospitals and colleges have been buying up homes and office space that would otherwise be on the tax rolls, reducing municipal tax bases.

LABOR:

Minimum wage in legislative buildings, family leave, classified jobs: The bill sets a new minimum wage of $15 an hour for employees of contractors who provide services to the General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Management, which maintains the State Capitol, Legislative Office Building and Capitol grounds.

It directs state officials to study how Connecticut might implement a system to provide paid family and medical leave. The state now has a law requiring certain employers to offer unpaid leave.

The governor is empowered by the bill to demand a fingerprint and criminal background check of any nominee for department head or as a judge or justice.

ENVIRONMENT The bill includes two environmental measures that received substantial attention without coming to final passage during the regular session: one phasing in a ban on the use of microbeads in cosmetic and personal care products; and another restricting the use of pesticides on municipal playgrounds.

Plastic microbeads used as skin cleansing agents pass intact through wastewater treatment plants and have been found in fish and other wildlife. The ban here is to be phased in between Dec. 31, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2019.

The new pesticide restrictions apply to outdoor play areas in municipal playgrounds, but exempts sports fields and school playgrounds.

Existing law already restricts pesticides on the grounds of schools educating children up to and including the eighth grade.

The implementer also contains pieces of what had been a large energy bill designed to begin modernizing Connecticut’s electric grid. A key resurrected provision limits the fixed charge all electric customers pay regardless of how much power they use. The provision defines what can be included for reimbursement in that charge. It does not go as far as the original legislation, which would have capped it at $10. It also allows the utilities to begin a pilot program for large-scale energy storage, a relatively new concept designed to make more and less-expensive power available at critical times of the day.

The implementer also expands the state’s farmland restoration program to include shellfish beds.

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“I have always been impressed with Suzanne’s relentless desire to make continuous improvements.”

Yale’s Friend is A Gem

Sock It To Me

NEW HAVEN: David Friend [‘69] the founder of Carbonite, a back up computer service, has given the Peabody Museum of Natural History a $4 million gift to renovate the museum’s auditorium into a stateof-the-art mineral and gem gallery and multipurpose programming space. Friend will also establish an endowment to support the displays and programming within the space. The project’s completion is timed to coincide with the Peabody’s 150th anniversary in 2016. The new space will be named David Friend Hall.

MADISON: Andrew Epprecht may be too young to know the derivation of the headline [Goldie Hawn on the sixties variety comedy show Laugh In] – but nonetheless, he has started his own company, Noble Stitch.

Friend said, “I envision a spectacular space focused on the beauty and wonder of nature that features some of the world’s most beautiful and awe-inspiring minerals.”

The Peabody houses one of the nation’s oldest and best collections of gems and minerals. The collection originated with Yale geologist and mineralogist Benjamin Silliman, whose “pioneering teaching of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology was largely responsible for the preeminence of Yale in 19th century scientific education.”

The sixteen year old Epprecht is using crowdfunding through the website Kickstarter to help raise funds for his start-up company. Designers and the rest of us will be able to upload designs for custom socks to be made of bamboo fiber.

Epprecht says “besides being an ecofriendly renewable resource, bamboo fabric is incredibly soft, naturally odor resistant and helps keep your feet dry all year round.” The url noblestich.com will take you to more information.

MILFORD: Suzanne Greco, sister of Fred DeLuca CEO and founder of Subway, was appointed president.

Greco began her tenure with the restaurant chain as a “Sandwich Artist™” in 1973.

Subway explained that Greco has led the research and development team, “spearheading many important initiatives designed to continuously improve the menu and customer experience.”

Yale New Haven Hospital’s Smilow Cancer Center.

Since 2012, Greco has overseen the Operations Department and took the helm of marketing in 2015, as well.

Deluca’s cancer is said to be in remission, although he did have a setback in reaction to one of the drugs used in his long-term treatment.

DeLuca said of his new appointee, “I have always been impressed with Suzanne’s relentless desire to make continuous improvements to our products and customer experience.”

In her new role, Greco will oversee the day-to-day operations of the company and will continue to report directly to DeLuca.

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Tiger Woods may not be making his comeback yet, but the number of rounds of golf played in the U.S. is on the rise, although not quite in Connecticut.

He told USA Today last year that for seven months, he was nearly entirely out of the business, but is now “90%.”

Subway is a privately held $19 billion company with more than 43,000 locations in one hundred countries worldwide.

YTD April 2015 rounds played increased in 28 states, versus YTD April 2014. In Connecticut, however, golf play was down %10 from the previous year with 9.3% fewer days open at courses.

Bigelow Tea Supporting USO

According to a new report from the PGA Performance Trak and the National Golf Course Owners Association, the number of rounds played during April 2015 increased by 5.7% over April 2014 with the number of days open up 5.4%.

Increases in median revenues through April 2015 ranged from +2.4% for golf fee revenues to +6.2% for food and beverage revenues.

Weather is a big factor in the number of rounds of golf being played, so the Northeast and some parts of the Ohio Valley faced declines in play during the month of April due to much colder weather at the start of 2015.

Better Than Daylight Savings

New Subway Artist at Helm

DeLuca has reportedly been treated for Leukemia at

Weather Dampens Spring Golf Play

If you think you need a little extra time to get to the packie—you’re in luck. As of July 1, Connecticut has extended hours for off-premise liquor, beer, and wine sales to 10pm Monday through Friday, until 9pm on Saturday and Sunday until 6pm.

Having one hour less of buying time did not seem to stop Nutmeg alcohol consumers.

Summertime appears to be “Miller Time” for Connecticut residents, according to their Blood Alcohol Consumption Report [BACtrack, at Bactrack.com], Over 100,000 BAC test results were aggregated anonymously from users of BACtrack Mobile, BACtrack’s smartphone breathalyzer, and Connecticut had the fourth highest blood alcohol level, .088, during the summer of 2014.

FAIRFIELD: Bigelow Tea Company has become an official sponsor of the United Service Organization [USO].

Bigelow, a family owned business, is committing to donations of a minimum of 350,000 tea bags annually. The company says the tea bags will be used to “support the USO’s ongoing mission of lifting the spirits of America’s troops and their families.”

This commitment continues through Bigelow’s existing Tea for the Troops program, launched by CEO Cindi Bigelow in 2009. To date, the company says Tea for the Troops has donated more than 4 million tea bags to U.S. service personnel.

The device requires an operator to blow a breath sample into a tube. The vehicle won’t start if the test comes back with a blood alcohol content of .025 or above. The new rule will also require giving random samples while operating a motor vehicle.

If you’d rather own a package store, or a few, the state now allows an individual to own four locations—up from three.

Bus Pass To encourage riders on the new Bristol to Hartford Busway, the State DOT has organized “CTFastrak Rewards, a benefits program that offers a variety of local business discounts to transit riders in the central Connecticut area.”

To obtain the business offers and discount, riders “just need to present appropriate proof of fare payment to the business.”

Businesses can participate in the program for no fee. Shoreline East, anyone?

Connecticut now also requires anyone caught operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs who have their licenses suspended by the DMV to install an ignition interlock device on their vehicle to get their licenses back.

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Yale Hook Ups NEW HAVEN: It turns out students at Yale University may have stumbled on another value of Ivy League “networking.”

The website Niche.com chose Yale as number three on its list of marriage-friendly schools.

Niche says it compiled the list of “marriage-friendly schools” by combining its lists of colleges with the friendliest students, the smartest students, and the most attractive students, although Yale was at a disadvantage in the ranking as Niche put a special emphasis on religious schools.

Number 1 on Niche’s list of marriage-friendly schools is Brigham Young University, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and located in Provo, Utah. Chosen as second was the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, followed by Yale.

In spite of the advantage gained in finding their mates in college today’s Yalies and many other college students, apparently still lag behind their parents in the marriage game.

Damon Libby of Libby’s Motoworld in New Haven, said in May, “if he can get some in the showroom, the Slingshots will sell out faster than he can get them in.”Libby is now taking orders as Connecticut has recognized the “autocycle” as street legal as of July 1.

According to Business Insider, a business news, tech and celebrity website, “in 1962, half of 21 year olds and 90% of 30 year olds had been married at least once.

In 2014, only 8% of 21 year olds and 55% of 30 year olds had been married.”

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Heroes

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HARTFORD: Connecticut’s capital city apparently loves “Dunkin.”

It has twenty two Dunkin Donuts coffee shop restaurants, [New Haven has twenty one], and according the company, there are 350 DD locations in the soon to be re-named “Coffee State.”

Hartford will be DD central for the coffee chain’s Connecticut marketing efforts. The soon to be built minor league baseball stadium in downtown Hartford has sold the naming rights to DD for a yet undisclosed amount.

For the past several months, nothing in Hartford sports has been more controversial than “naming” issues. The New Britain Rock Cats, a long successful minor league team, is moving to Hartford and changing their name to what ever the h… this means: The Yard Goats.

The City of Hartford has declined to say how many donuts the city will receive for the naming rights, but the stadium budget submitted to pay its bonds requires a minimum of $225,000 annually.

The ballpark is part of a $350-million development, “Downtown North” [DoNo], and is projected to include a brewery, grocery store, other commercial tenants and residences. Robert Landino, CEO of Middletown-based Centerplan and the developer of 160 apartments on College and Crown Streets in downtown New Haven and Business New Haven’s 2014 Businessperson of the Year, is the lead partner in DoNo Hartford LLC, the developers of the project.

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Businesses Showing Their Creative Side Local Business People Lead With Creativity

By Rachel Bergman

reativity isn’t just about a new product idea or innovative marketing platform; creativity drives business in ways like employee satisfaction and engagement, training, and operational efficiency.

Fostering creativity in the workplace may be tricky for some. How can you encourage employees to think outside the box? Not feel discouraged if their ideas aren’t implemented? Maintain a standard or better level of operations in the meantime?

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Creativity is not only the guiding force behind Apple, Google, tech start-ups and anyone in the design industry, creativity can be found in the most “average” of above-average businesses as they re-evaluate from the bottom up, and then again from the top down.

After all, no good idea is good forever, right?

Fostering creativity is an offensive maneuver, businesses in today’s market can’t afford to passively wait for inspiration to strike on a grand scale, creativity must be fostered in the workplace.

The construct of a sole creator and innovator masterminding a whole operation may be obsolete. Sorry, Henry Ford. Allowing employees to think creatively with and for a company can set off a chain reaction of innovation and success, according to New Haven’s own business leaders who described for us how they think and act creatively, how it drives business and how they foster creativity in the environment.

Each seem to agree that the success of creative strategies is predicated on employee involvement.

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Marna Wilber, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for ASSA ABLOY Americas, co-located on Sargent Drive in New Haven with Sargent Enterprises as the Americas headquarters for the global organization. Assa Abloy, a Swedish company, is the world’s largest lock manufacturer by volume and employs about 1,000 people in Connecticut.

Wilber tells us that employees are always welcome to submit ideas across business sectors, but there is also a genuine corporate communications culture of fostering creativity and encouraging employees to get creative in a myriad of ways. Production and operations people always have to be creative in problem solving, trying to anticipate issues so that there really aren’t issues, and they are forever trying to find new, better, more efficient, and less costly ways to operate, but that ultimately give more value.

A few of their factories instituted formalized programs in which any employee can submit an idea to be reviewed by management and potentially incorporated. Employees are empowered to make their job or the product they produce better. While Assa Abloy institutes tons of creative things, all ideas and programs are not necessarily formed with the goal of improving production or sales. Broader strategies to incorporate the idea of creativity include things like communications campaigns to elicit employee stories, like a storytelling contest for employees on the topic of what makes them proud to work for Assa Abloy.

This past year, the company started an “Innovation Challenge Contest” welcoming a product or service idea for new business and any employee

throughout all sectors was welcome to submit proposals. Ultimately, 3 people were invited to present their ideas to senior management and of those 3, all three moved forward as projects.

Carl Casper, Vice President of Customer Advocacy at Connex Credit Union. Connex, headquartered in North Haven, operates 7 branches with 100 employees serving approximately 47,000 members. Previously the SNET employee credit union, the credit union’s charter was revised to become a community charter about ten years ago as membership declined with SNET/AT&T employee relocation out of the state. Now, anyone who lives, works or worships in New Haven, Hartford or Middlesex counties may join Connex.

Casper explained how Connex employees helped the organization push to the next level in pursuing its mission of changing member lives one member at a time. The organization conducts an ongoing employee focus group in which employee-participants are provided an open forum to discuss the workplace, processes, and how to better serve members. The focus group is comprised of all levels of employment from cashier/tellers to management and participants are rotated out periodically.

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Pearce says employees who stay for many years often transition to new roles within the company, which is encouraged as their interest levels change and they learn a new field.

Without leaving the company, their job stays fresh and this happens often, employees are encouraged to learn other aspects of the business.

Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent and Max Sutter, Architects and Co-Founders of Escape New Haven. Escape New Haven, a series of puzzle rooms on Whitney Avenue in New Haven, is a business of creativity, but their start-up also utilized the local community in creative ways.

Carl Casper, Vice President of Member Advocacy at Connex Credit Union, believes all 100 of Connex’s employees are leaders. the lives of members in the form of “advocacy.”

The approaches involved tools for members to use to help them get what they needed to accomplish financial goals like save for a home, save for a nest egg, a vacation or just build an emergency fund—whatever goal the member set. Employees developed ways to work through steps with each member as a “how to” and then made sure each Connex employee was trained to use these tools to help members achieve their goals.

Marna Wilber, Director of Corporate Communications for ASSA ABLOY Americas, says the company institutes a corporate culture of creativity.

Barbara Pearce, of Pearce Real Estate, believes professional development fosters creativity in the workplace.

With 100 employees, management looks to all of them to be leaders. Some branch managers began picking up the phone to call members and find out what their needs were. Others asked when members came in, or sent emails.

About 300 members became engaged in a process of “Advocacy Planning” with a Connex staffer, and worked toward a financial goal. Balances have gone up, Casper reports, both in checking and savings accounts, and in loan products.

Relocation, Senior Services, Financial, and Real Estate Insurance services out of 8 offices in New Haven County as well as a Rocky Hill office with more than 100 agents and staffers.

Barbara Pearce, President & CEO of Pearce Real Estate. Pearce provides Commercial, Industrial, Residential,

Barbara Pearce is a big believer in professional development of all kinds.

She reads management texts prolifically, encourages employees to attend conferences, and brings in specialists to meet with agents and staff on topics like technology in the workplace. After such engagements or trips, staff reconvenes and discusses what they learned and ways to implement new techniques or practices company-wide.

According to Pearce, an advantage to a small business remaining nimble is the ability to make changes quickly. If, for instance, they have staff changes in a department, employees taking over a position are encouraged to consider what they would do with the department if they were starting from scratch. Employees are asked to weigh in on that as they change roles and potentially change the role.

Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent and Max Sutter, architects and founders of Escape New Haven, operate on creativity, but also creatively utilize the business community of New Haven.

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The company sees it as a challenge and a goal to try to find creative ways to meet needs clients have, helping Pearce Real Estate stay ahead of the curve in the industry and in a very competitive market. Their “Elderly Services” department, in which employees help those transitioning into assisted living, nursing care, or just a smaller home with wraparound services, developed out of a series of requests from clients looking for assistance with their parents, or ready to downsize

The first escape room started in Sutter and Rodriguez-Torrent’s condo complex. It was quickly very successful by word of mouth and friends of friends of friends, but the condo association intervened and asked them to close it down.

They decided to make it a business, but weren’t sure how to go about finding a flexible lease where they could make modifications, what sort of protections they would need, or how to handle taxable income. Developing clever puzzles to lock people into rooms with strangers so they would have to use problemsolving and team-building skills to get out was no issue, it was the overhead they weren’t sure about.

They turned to SCORE, a nonprofit association of retired professionals who provide mentoring and guidance to small businesses just getting started.

They were matched up with a retired accountant. He helped them set up the financial side of the business and the lease. Score.

Next, they turned to Murtha Cullina LLP to take advantage of the firm’s entrepreneur’s legal package, which offers legal counsel and strategic business planning to companies in all stages. The firm has an entrepreneur group dedicated to advising and mentoring emerging companies and offers special pricing options to start-ups in particular. For a flat fee, start-ups can legally incorporate and set up a corporate infrastructure with a set amount of attorney hours for advising and legal assistance.

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Joel Galvin, GRI, CCS and Senior Commercial Associate in the North Haven office of H. Pearce Realty, has completed a five-year lease in Branford.

The 3,100 SQFT of flex space is located at 9 Business Park Drive and is leased to New Haven Ballet, which will use the facility for rehearsal and training purposes. Galvin represented the owner/landlord, Bernabucci Real Estate Company, Inc., an LLC which owns and manages real estate properties.

Two new deals were signed at Lee Farm Corporate Park (83 Wooster Heights Road) in Danbury by Cushman & Wakefield. Regus, a provider of flexible workspaces, leased 14,772 square feet; and The DiSalvo Engineering Group, a professional consulting engineering firm offering comprehensive structural engineering services, leased 4,314 square feet. Regus will open its new offices in the fall of 2015, while DiSalvo will open in July 2015.

As the exclusive leasing agent, Cushman & Wakefield’s Meredith Siburn, director, represented the landlord, Lee Farm Partners, LLC, a joint-venture between Summit Development of Southport, and the Grossman Companies of Quincy, Mass.

Regus Corporation was represented by Colin Reilly and Mike Kay, both CBRE senior vice presidents; The DiSalvo Engineering Group represented itself in the transaction.

Bill Clark, Senior Vice President, at The Geenty Group, was the sole agent in the lease of a 1,000 SF industrial condo unit in a multi tenant facility at 2344 Foxon Road, North Branford. The Landlord is Cooper Partners, LLC, and the Tenant is Michael Jurewicz dba MDJ Home Improvement, LLC. He will use the unit for his general office and storage of building supplies used in his home improvement business.

Power Home Remodeling Group has signed a new lease for 8,922 square feet at 372 Danbury Road in Wilton.

Cushman & Wakefield was the broker.

As the exclusive leasing agent, Cushman & Wakefield’s Meredith Siburn, director, and Kathleen Fazio, director, represented the landlord, Wilton GSE, LLC, a jointventure between Summit Development of Southport, and the Grossman Companies of Quincy, Mass. Power Home Remodeling Group was represented by Cushman & Wakefield’s Jay Hruska and

The New Haven Ballet, will use the facility for rehearsal and training purposes. an insurance agent for Mass Mutual. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of New Haven.

Kenneth S. Ginsberg, attorney and realtor, has joined Real Living Wareck D’Ostilio Real Estate.

2415 Boston Post Road picked up Shandex Corporation as a new office tenant.

Brian Scruton, vice chairman and director, respectively.

Shandex Corporation has leased 500 SF of office space at 2415 Boston Post Road, Guilford. Shandex imports and exports building materials normally made of metal, such as nails. The Landlord is Mariner Properties, LLC. The Geenty Group was the sole broker in this transaction, with Barry Stratton serving as the Tenant’s agent, while Bill Clark was the agent for the Landlord.

71 Wall Street in Madison is under lease. O,R&L Commercial in Branford represented both sides of the transaction with Frank Hird, SIOR representing the landlord, Davis Realty LLC and Rich Guralnick, CCIM representing the tenant, Aria Derm Spa. The 3,120 square foot high-end two story building was constructed in 2007 and is in the process of being renovated for the new tenant.

Aria Derm Spa will bring a range of upscale and popular services for residents and visitors of Madison, including dermatologic and cosmetic opportunities.

Real estate investment management firms Clarion Partners and Marcus Partners worked with Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR) to lease 84,405 square feet at Merritt 7 Corporate Park, the six-building, 1.4 million square foot Class–A office park in Norwalk.

East Haven’s Stony Brook Village, a 165-unit luxury apartment community sold for $21.05 million.

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Ben Amarone has joined the Hamden office of Weichert Realtors- Regional Propertiess as a real estate agent. He is assisting property buyers and sellers New Haven County.

Amarone holds a Masters in Organizational Leadership and a bachelor’s degree in Communications. He previously worked in the pharmaceutical sales industry and currently holds the position of Associate Director of Admissions for Online Programs at Quinnipiac University.

Weichert Realtors- Regional Properties was recently named to the Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. Premier Client Group for 2015.

Only 33 companies from the Weischert franchise network were invited to join this, new group, which recognized top affiliates based on their contributions and “outstanding performance” in 2014.

Margarita Mong Liu has joined the Orange office of Weichert Realtors - Regional Properties as a real estate agent. She is assisting property buyers and sellers in Orange, Woodbridge, Bethany, the surrounding towns of New Haven County as well as all of Fairfield County.

Marianne Roday has joined Real Living Wareck D’Ostilio Real Estate as a licensed Realtor.

A graduate of Florida State University with a BS degree in Psychology, Roday also did graduate work in finance toward an MBA at Duquesne University in PA. Katherine H. Erland, has joined Pearce Real Estate as a residential sales associate, and will work from the Wallingford Regional Office.

Erland will focus on residential properties there and in the surrounding area.

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Borghesi Building & Engineering Co., Inc. was awarded construction of a 28,000 square foot addition for Stevens Manufacturing Company, which manufactures products and parts for the aerospace industry, in Milford. This addition will increase the size of the existing 38,000 square foot building previously constructed by Borghesi Building & Engineering Company, Inc. The addition will be used for warehousing and expansion of production space. Construction is expected to begin late summer with completion in the spring of 2016.

Construction O&G Industries was recently awarded a contract to renovate 1,500 square feet of laboratory space that will become the home of Griffin Hospital’s new Interventional Radiology facility.

The multi-phase project kicked off earlier this month and is expected to be completed in September of 2015.

In addition to the current Griffin Hospital project, O&G is renovating Charlotte Hungerford’s Operating Room #1 and preparing New Milford Hospital’s Diebold Family Cancer Center for a new Big Bore MRI machine.

Borghesi Building & Engineering Co., Inc. was awarded construction for a 2,700 square foot addition for Mack Fire Protection. Mack Fire designs, and maintains fire sprinkler systems. The addition will house expanded office support, and construction is expected to begin this summer.

Ohio investors purchased two acres and 150,000 square feet at Roosvelt Drive in Derby.

Sold Danbury-based Kovacs Construction Corporation has purchased a 15,872 SF industrial flex building on 3 acres at 321 Riggs Street in Oxford from 321 Riggs Street Realty, LLC. The purchase price was $975,000. Alan M. Fischer, CCIM, SIOR, of Fischer Real Estate Inc. represented the seller and the buyer in this transaction.

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891 Boston Post Road in Madison has been sold. Frank Hird, SIOR of O,R&L Commercial represented the seller, Banc Building, LLC and the buyer was represented by Bonnie McManamy of William Pitt Sotheby’s. The 2,240 square foot office building located on the Boston Post Road in downtown Madison sold for $614,000. The seller’s attorney was Michael Iacurci, Esq. of Madison and the buyer’s attorney was Alexander Tighe, Esq. of Old Saybrook.

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The Guilford Food Center, located at 77 and 79 Whitfield Street in Guilford, has been sold. Frank Hird, SIOR of O,R&L Commercial represented the sellers of the business and real estate. The buyer, The Marketplace Emporia, LLC was represented by Diane Vitagliano of William Raveis Real Estate.

The property and business sold for $992,200. The Seller’s attorney was John M. Zullo, Esq. of North Haven and the Buyer’s attorney was Eric Emanuelson, Esq. of Guilford.

An investment group from Ohio has purchased a 2-story, 150,000 SF industrial building on over 2 acres at 150 Roosevelt Drive in Derby. The buyer plans to demolish a portion of the building, completely renovate the rest and then re-introduce the property to the market for lease or for sale. The seller was Derby Cellular Products, LLC. Alan M. Fischer, CCIM, SIOR, of Fischer Real Estate Inc. represented both the seller and the buyer.

Valley Council of Governments (VCOG) played in integral role in this sale by providing funding for the environmental testing.

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MANUFACTURING University Gives Connecticut Report Card For Manufacturing Report Tracks Mixed Bag For State

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Doosan took over a bankrupt fuel cell company – employment now up to 300 in Windsor CT Expands Training Funds For Workers HARTFORD: The Department of Economic and Community Development has allocated $7 million to the Incumbent Worker Training Program through the Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund, a $30 million fund created to “strengthen the competitiveness of Connecticut’s diverse manufacturing base. This targeted training program will support the efforts of advanced manufacturing companies in training their existing workforce in the next generation of skills needed to meet emerging market demands.”

comprehensive report card on Connecticut’s Manufacturing and Logistics economy by Indiana’s Ball State University Center For Business and Economic Data reveals Connecticut’s strengths and weaknesses.

The national report ranks all fifty states for Manufacturing Industry Health, Logistics Industry Health, Human Capital, Worker Benefit Costs, Tax Climate, Expected Liability Gap [example: unfunded pensions], Global Reach, Sector Diversification and Productivity and Innovation.

The results are a mixed bag for Connecticut and highlight the challenges that face the state in strengthening the manufacturing sector.

Connecticut’s overall Manufacturing Health is graded a B for 2015, up from a C in 2010, while the state’s manufacturing wages are rated sixth nationally.

Worker Benefit Expenses, however, reflecting high health care, worker compensation, and unemployment costs, are a solid and multi-year F. Connecticut’s Tax Climate, even before any recent increases, was already graded a D for 2015, it’s a grade that hasn’t improved for the past five years.

The report points out some potential strengths for Connecticut too, grading the state with an A for Productivity and Innovation.

While the anti-trade vote of Connecticut’s Congressional Delegation may send a different message about the importance of exporting in Connecticut, The Ball State’s report gave the state a B+ for Global Reach.

Political officials often trumpet Connecticut’s workforce, but the report sees a different picture, with a declining workforce, earning a better grade in 2010, B, and a downgrade to C+ in 2015.

Among the most worrisome “grades” is Sector Diversification. On diversification, the report’s authors explain, “there are both risks and rewards to economic diversification. States that concentrate their manufacturing activity in a single sector typically suffer higher volatility in employment and incomes over a business cycle and are also more likely to experience greater effects of structural changes to the economy involving a single sector. One potential benefit of low levels of economic diversification is that the resulting agglomeration economies often emerge in these highly specialized regions. As a consequence, policies that seek to diversify the economy are typically pursued in concert with efforts to strengthen the supply chain of existing industries.”

Nonetheless, the report provides a D to Connecticut for the diversification of its manufacturing industries.

The reports authors are the center’s director Michael Hicks and Senior Research Associate Srikan Devaraj. Comprehensive information is available at http://conexus. cberdata.org/state/ct

The programs efforts may prove timely as many of the state’s aerospace suppliers are seeing increasing orders as major companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and UTC are continuing to grow their outsourcing of components.

Electric Boat, which is planning on hiring as many as six hundred workers this year as the result of its largest ever contract with the U.S. Navy has cited concerns about skilled workers to replace their aging workforce.

Doosan took over a bankrupt fuel cell company – employment now up to 300 in Windsor.

DOT Fuels Doosan HAMDEN: Connecticut Transit (CTtransit) has chosen a PureCell® Model 400 [400 Kilowatt] fuel cell from Doosan Fuel Cells based in Windsor to power its Hamden “Hub.” The transit system already has a Doosan fuel cell system at its Hartford facility. The transit company says that the 400 KW fuel cell creates “an annual reduction of CO2 and NOx that equates to planting 127 acres of trees and removing 60 cars from the road.”

The second Doosan fuel cell will also supply electricity, heat and hot water to the Hamden facility, which serves as a base of operations for 135 buses on 22 routes that serve 17 cities and towns in the greater New Haven area.

The Doosan-CTtransit project is funded, in part, by the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) Program, a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) project initiated in 2009 to provide grants to public transportation agencies seeking to shrink greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Chair Named HAMDEN: Norman Gray of Hamden, a biomedical scientist with 30 years of management experience across a wide range of healthcare disciplines, has been named the Carlton Highsmith Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Quinnipiac University.

Gray holds eight U.S. and international medical device patents. In 1984, Gray founded and launched Gammahealth.

According to the University, “under Gray’s leadership, the company evolved from an incubator medical research and development organization to a multinational group of companies encompassing product development, manufacturing, distribution and sales worldwide.” Gammahealth was acquired in 2008.

“Professor Gray has successfully guided companies in all phases of development, including planning, startup, acquisition and international expansion,” said Carlton Highsmith, vice chairman of the Quinnipiac University Board of Trustees, who established the chair in 2012 with a $1 million gift.

Gray earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State.

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New Haven Biotech Raises $67 Million for New Antibiotic Treatments Irish Biotech Fund Leads Financing

NEW HAVEN: Melinta Therapeutics, formerly known as RiB- X and with a facility at 300 George Street in New Haven, has raised $67 million in new equity financing. The financing is led by Irish biotech fund Malin Corp. PLC, a venture capital investor.

The company has said the money will be used to “complete a final phase 3 study of delafloxacin, an investigational drug designed to treat patients with acute bacterial skin and skin

structure infections, including MRSA infections.”

Industry experts claim that major pharmaceutical companies have not been significant players in antibiotics, due to low profit margins and potential for short life spans thanks to antibiotic resistance. A shortage of new antibiotics has been cited

CI to Add $1M for Bioscience Start-Ups Rocky Hill: Connecticut Innovations is adding $1million to help fund bioscience start-ups. The Connecticut Bioscience Development Fund (CBIF) has granted $ 1 million to a twoyear pipeline job that will “support business, faculty, and student groups associated with Connecticut universities.”

Four Flu Fighters MERIDEN: Protein Sciences Corporation presented the results of a clinical trial comparing Flublok Quadrivalent to a traditional egg-based quadrivalent inactivated vaccine.

The company says the data shows “superior performance of Flublok based on a significantly lower number of people contracting the flu after vaccination with Flublok Quadrivalent.

In the study of approximately 9,000 subjects aged 50 and older, half received Flublok Quadrivalent influenza vaccine and half received quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine produced in eggs. The company says, “31% more people were protected by Flublok than by the egg-derived vaccine.”

by clinicians, the World Health Organization, and the National Institute for Health [NIH] as previously effective antibiotics have become less effective due to resistance by evolved bacteria.

Malin is the lead investor, committing $35 million in Series 4 funding to buy a stake in Melinta with a commitment to invest another $10 million, which is callable by Melinta within 12 months.

Vatera Healthcare Partners, a venture capital firm among Melinta’s original backers, and additional investors are also funding the latest round.

Melinta raised $70 million in an early 2014 round with a significant portion of the cash coming from Vatera.

The program will be led by Yale’s Center for Biomedical & Interventional Technology with additional coordination from UCONN and Quinnipiac University for “program coordination, management of an evaluation panel, and progress evaluations against turning points for funded groups. Other Connecticut colleges and universities also “contend for the awards.”

NEW HAVEN: Ann Kurth Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H., F.A.A.N., an expert on global health currently at New York University, will be the next dean of the Yale School of Nursing, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

Kurth is an alumna of the Yale School of Nursing, having earned her master’s degree in nursing (specializing in midwifery in 1990).

Kurth is a clinically trained epidemiologist, and her research is on improving the “prevention, detection, and care of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; to promote reproductive health; and to strengthen health systems globally by using information and communication technologies, among other approaches, to further the establishment of health care and workforce training programs.” Her work in the United States and abroad has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Health and Resources Administration, among others.

In Face of Clinic Cutbacks, YNHH Continues To Expand Agreements In Hartford, Milford, New London and Old Saybrook, Expand Statewide Network NEW HAVEN: Even as Yale New Haven Health System announces closures of its Branford and East Haven clinics in what it says is response to cutbacks and increased taxes by state government – expansion of some operations continue.

HARTFORD: The Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and Saint Francis Care announced the launch of a new partnership in Hartford.

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Flublok Quadrivalent is not yet approved by the FDA, but Trivalent Flublok is approved for people 18 and older to prevent influenza disease.

A hospital release said “creating an integrated oncology services program to better serve the greater Hartford community, this new partnership brings the clinical program of Smilow Cancer Hospital at YaleNew Haven to the Saint Francis Campus.”

Federal funds from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, Department of Health and Human Services, helped underwrite tahe costs of the study.

YNHH says, Saint Francis patients will have “enhanced access to ground-breaking clinical trials, broader screening and diagnostic tools, treatment options, expanded psychosocial support and enhanced

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pain management therapies.”

In addition to Saint Francis, Smilow Cancer Hospital operates 11 cancer care centers across the state and is affiliated with Yale Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Saint Francis competitor Hartford Hospital had previously joined the New York based Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Alliance.

OLD SAYBROOK: Yale-New Haven Hospital has just opened a new 24,500-square-foot outpatient medical center in Old Saybrook. The Old Saybrook Medical Center will offer pediatric specialty services, a Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center, musculoskeletal services, Urology and vascular services, blood draw, medical imaging, physical therapy, Rheumatology, X-ray services, ultrasounds and specialty healthcare services for adults and children.

MILFORD: Closer to home, YNHH just opened a Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at Milford Hospital, another component in the Health Systems effort to build “a statewide destination musculoskeletal network,” ostensibly to feed the new Musculoskeletal Center on Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Saint Raphael Campus.

The 24-bed unit is staffed by YaleNew Haven Hospital physicians and rehabilitation nurses.

NEW LONDON: Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and Rhode Island’s Westerly Hospital will be joining the Yale New Haven Health System, subject to regulatory approval.

Yale New Haven Health System will spend $300 million in Connecticut and Rhode Island to improve primary care, OB/maternity services, orthopedics, neurosurgery and other specialties The deal is not without its critics.

Senator Len Fasano, Republican Minority leader cited the closings of the clinics in Branford and East Haven by Yale in his criticism, telling the ctmirror.com it was “an issue of great concern.”

Yale and other hospitals have cited cutbacks in Medicaid reimbursements and signficant state tax increases as a catalyst for consolidations.

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Connecticut Hospitals Harvard Pilgrim Feeling The Tightening Taking Ground In Budget Pinch Connecticut Bristol Hospital Eliminates 43 Positions, Cites Cuts In Payments

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Having first started selling Health Insurance in July 2014, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan says it is growing its base of customers and provider network.

In our most recent issue, Bristol Hospital CEO Kurt Barwis said Bristol Hospital was not for sale, but State cutbacks in Medicare and Medicaid payments have made managing a little harder.

Bristol Hospital has eliminated 43 positions, reducing its Bristol Hospital’s workforce by Barwis: State and 5 percent in Medicaid cutbacks response to led to job cuts. major cuts to Medicaid and Medicare payments, according to Barwis.

Nineteen layoffs occurred, Barwis wrote in a memo to staff and community members, while 18 occurred over the past eight weeks and another six vacant positions are being eliminated, saving $3.6 million.

Barwis wrote that the hospital had already reduced expenses by nearly $3 million after facing a $5 million reduction in Medicare and Medicaid payments this fiscal year.

Two of the state’s largest hospital systems also have announced cuts. The Yale New Haven Health System is planning to close two outpatient clinics and Hartford HealthCare – the parent company of Hartford, Windham and Backus hospitals, MidState Medical Center and The Hospital of Central Connecticut –plans to eliminate about 335 fulltimepositions, affecting 418 employees.

Nearly one-third of Bristol Hospital’s savings come from consolidating leadership positions, Barwis wrote.

Other savings will come from reorganizing outpatient behavioral health services, restructuring the facilities department and reorganizing the information technology department.

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The company says it now has almost 10,000 customers who work for about 200 Connecticut businesses.

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HP can be purchased on Massachusetts’ health care exchange for that state, but is not yet available on Health Access CT. It is expected to begin selling on the exchange in 2016.

Harvard Pilgrim is a non-profit company based in Wellesley, Mass and has served the Massachusetts health insurance market for nearly forty years. It started a New England expansion that now includes operations in New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut.

Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker was CEO of Harvard Pilgrim and is credited by many for turning around the once struggling Health Plan. Baker, in a controversial decision, pulled out of Rhode Island in 1999 to cut losses.

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The 1961 movie Parish was set on the tobacco farms of Connecticut.

Connecticut Nostalgia and Cigar Lovers – Light Up! The 1961 movie Parish, with Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Claudette Colbert, Dean Jagger and Karl Malden, was set on the tobacco farms of northern Connecticut. The movie has a classic southern feel, and is a story about love, class, and of course – Big Tobacco. The Connecticut Valley tobacco back drop is Northern Connecticut, [although “Tony” Madison is featured in the film as well] and its leaf is seen as among the best tobacco leaf grown anywhere –for years used as the wrapper on many fine cigars.

Altadis U.S.A. Inc., one of the world’s largest premium cigar makers, is unveiling this summer the Montecristo White Vintage Connecticut, featuring a Connecticut shade wrapper from a 2008 tobacco harvest, “grown under mesh screens in the sandy loam of the Connecticut River Valley.”

Along with Vintage Connecticut’s 2008 shade-grown wrapper, the cigar consists of a Nicaraguan binder with fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Peru. It’s made at the Tabacalera de Garcia factory in La Romana, the Dominican Republic, where most Montecristo cigars are produced.

The cigars ship in decorative boxes of 20 that depict images of traditional red tobacco barns found in the Connecticut River Valley.

Mascola Sups On Some Alphabet Soup NEW HAVEN: The PRSA [Public Relations Society of America] has awarded The Mascola Group with a Silver Mercury Award at their June 17th award event in downtown Hartford for their efforts on marketing the Big E [Eastern States Exposition].

Mascola bagged the awards in the Not for Profit category, and for Integrated Communications.

According to Mascola, the “honors surrounded the large-scale PR program in 2014 for The Big E, earning the 3rd largest fair in North America valuable coverage from media outlets across Southern New England as part of their

FOXBOROUGH, Mass: During the past three years, the NFL received $7 million in advertising and marketing fees from the National Guard.

The New England Patriots earned $675,000 to hold events honoring Guard soldiers during half time events.

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Farm Animals, exhibitions, rides, country music, hundreds of vendors, and of course the “Cream Puffs,” helped the Big E pull in a record-breaking attendance of 1.49 million people in the seventeen day event in 2014.

Healthier Food On a Fast [Food] March MILFORD; Subway – the fast food chain that helped turn the country toward healthier fast food is going even further to build up their healthy “props.”

The sandwich chain is dropping all artificial ingredients from its menu.

The move applies to items produced by Subway restaurants, such as sandwiches, soups, salads and cookies.

Subway has more restaurants [43,000 restaurants in 110 countries], than any other fast food chain in the world. It will replace artificial ingredients with natural equivalents in North American establishments by 2017.

Panera Bread Co. (PNRAO), as well as Yum Brands Inc.’s (YUMN) Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are also removing artificial ingredients.

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According to a U.S. Senate report, the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Guards paid the Patriots $225,000 in 2014 and $675,000 over the past three years.

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The Cream Puff is an iconic fair food of The Big E yearly, selling over 50,000 of the treats each season.

The company says it has removed artificial trans-fats, reduced salt and eliminated high fructose corn syrup from sandwiches and salads in previous years.

Elizabeth Stewart, the company’s director of corporate social responsibility, said Subway’s transition would not affect current relationships with suppliers and the company does not expect

The spending included events with players to visit schools and “honor” local team coaches.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal (D) filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act banning the DOD from spending taxpayer funds to honor American soldiers at sporting events.

“Along with sports fans across America, I was appalled to learn last month that many of the ceremonies honoring members of our armed services at NFL games are not actually being conducted out of a sense of patriotism, but for profit in the form of millions in taxpayer dollars going from the Department of Defense to wealthy NFL franchises,” McCain said, “In fact, NFL teams have received nearly

higher prices for customers from the switch.

In February of this year, a controversial “foodblogger,” the Foodbabe, called on Subway to eliminate azodicarbonamide, the same chemical used to make yoga mats and shoes, from its bread. Foodbabe critics have said the blogger does not rely on scientific evidence for many of her “health” recommendations and that the chemical was considered safe by the FDA. Consumers, however, appear unwilling to accept six and seven syllable items in their food and Subway agreed and eliminated the use of the food chemical, purported to cause respiratory ailments by those opposing its use, and is banned in the EU and Australia.

Reward Radio BRIDGEPORT: CRN International has been named a 2015 Company Partner of the Year by Platform to Employment [P2E], a Connecticut program that helps longterm unemployed workers.

The WorkPlace manages the Platform to Employment program in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Labor. CRN is a 40-year-old radio marketing company in Hamden, and, is being recognized for its “hard work and dedication.”

While P2E began in Bridgeport under the direction of Workplace Executive Director Joe Carbone. The program got a big boost after a very popular report made by Scott Pelley of the television news show 60 Minutes aired in 2012, and P2E has now been replicated in 12 cities across the nation.

$7 million in taxpayer dollars over the last three years from contracts with the Army National Guard which include public tributes to American troops.”

The report showed that the Army National Guard spent as much as $49 million on their marketing efforts with sports teams in 2014.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who joined with McCain and Blumenthal, is sponsoring the Amendment to outlaw the practice of “paid honoring” after he saw a payment of $100,000 to the New York Jets for “allowing” Guard members to be photographed with NFL Players at the same time they were honored as “hometown heroes.”

The release of information about the NFL marketing charges came on the same day as the announcement of the fine against the Patriots and its quarterback Tom Brady over Deflategate. Now that’s good PR strategy.

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WHO’S WHAT WHERE degree in Business Administration from Plymouth State University in Plymouth New Hampshire, a Mastery Certificate from the University of Connecticut Business School and is currently enrolled at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Wharton University.

Hubbard Jeff L. Hubbard was named to serve as New England Regional President at First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FNFG), leading the company’s New Havenbased team of bankers across Connecticut and Massachusetts.

As New England Regional President, Hubbard will have responsibility for managing and directing the overall marketbased Commercial and Industrial lending activities in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Hubbard earned his Bachelor of Science

Chris Griffiths was named Vice President of Business Banking at Ion Bank.

Chris will oversee the Bank’s Small Business Division. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Southern CT State University.

Julia Oh, Ph.D., a scientist who studies the human microbiome, has joined The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution and National Cancer Institute faculty as an assistant professor.

Oh earned her B.A. in biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D.

in genetics at Stanford University.

Angela Carrano, clinical assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Quinnipiac University, will begin a one-year term as president-elect of The Connecticut Association of Public Health Nurses on July 1.

Carrano earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in nursing from Sacred Heart University and the University of Hartford, respectively, and graduated from Quinnipiac’s doctor of nursing practice program.

Albert Cheng, Ph.D., an expert in genome editing technologies and gene regulation, was appointed as an assistant professor at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.

Recently, Chang developed a new technique to activate multiple genes in mouse or human cells to help scientists understand transcription networks

that underlie a variety of human diseases.

Cheng earned a B.Sc. in biochemistry and M. Phil. In Biology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He then received his Ph.D. in computational and systems biology at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.

Norman Gray of Hamden, a senior biomedical scientist, has been named the Carlton Highsmith Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Quinnipiac University.

In addition to teaching undergraduate entrepreneurship and engineering students at Quinnipiac, Gray will be responsible for the university’s Innovation Center and partnership with the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT) located in New Haven.

Gray earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State.

Jan Underhill has been named Director of Comcast University for the company’s Western New England Region.

Underhill will oversee all aspects of Comcast University’s operations in the region.

Underhill has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. She is working toward a Ph.D. in Education.

Long Wharf Theatre bestowed its highest honor, the Founders Award, to Barbara L. Pearce, CEO and President of Pearce Real Estate and active patron of the arts in Greater New Haven.

Pearce is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School.

Metaxas Mark Varholak of Orange, associate vice president for budget and financial planning, has been promoted to vice president for finance/chief financial officer at Quinnipiac University. In his new role, Varholak will oversee all aspects of financial management of Quinnipiac’s three campuses, eight schools and Division I athletics program.

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John Lombardo was named General Manager of The Saybrook Point Inn & Spa. Lombardo will be responsible for the daily operations, sales and marketing of Saybrook Point’s 82 guestrooms, the full-service SANNO spa, restaurant Fresh Salt, and historic Three Stories guesthouse. He will also oversee the destination’s marina, and the property’s more than 200 full and part-time employees.

At Cornell University’s Hotel School, John graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in business administration.

Andrew Karistinos has joined Ion Bank as a Business Banking Officer.

Karistinos has joined the bank’s Commercial Lending Department where he will generate small business loans, core deposits and cross sell Bank and Bank affiliate products and services.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Eastern CT State University.

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Monica McInerney joined Webster Bank as senior vice president, director of procurement. McInerney comes to Webster from Pitney Bowes, where she served as director – enterprise procurement since 2013. She is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Thomas C. Duffy, professor (adjunct) of music and director of university bands at Yale University, has been named the conductor of Neighborhood Music School’s Greater JUNE JULY 2015

New Haven Youth Orchestra. The Youth Orchestra focuses on preparation of major symphonic literature leading to several performances a year.

McInerney Richard F. Vitarelli of Jackson Lewis P.C., has been recognized among the “Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys,” an annual list prepared for Human Resource Executive by Lawdragon. Vitarelli is one of four attorneys from the firm selected to the list based on their “excellence in guiding employers through the constantly evolving laws governing the workplace.”

Deanna L. Joyce was promoted to Store Manager of the TD Bank Waterbury Plaza location at 835 Wolcott St. in Waterbury.

She is responsible for new business development, consumer and business lending, managing personnel and overseeing the day-to-day operations at the store serving customers throughout the area.

Joyce is a graduate of Bay State College in Boston.

Wanda Pellegrino recently joined Chester Village West in the new position of residency counselor.

Pellegrino works with seniors who are contemplating a move from their current home and want to learn about the lifestyle, health and wellness benefits of living in the active retirement community.

Louis S. Lacman has been named Waterbury Regional Chamber’s new membership director.

Lacman graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Business Administration from

Northeastern University in Boston.

Anne Demchek, retiring Manager at the Whalley Avenue Stop & Shop in New Haven was honored at the Village Café, a Social Enterprise of Marrakech, Inc. Demchek has been a dedicated supporter of Marrakech for many years and has been instrumental in helping a significant number of individuals with employment barriers transition successfully into competitive positions available at Stop & Shop.

Michael Zacchea was appointed as a member of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Advisory Committee on Veteran’s Business Affairs (ACVBA).

Zacchea is currently Director for the UConn Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The ACVBA serves as an independent source of advice and policy recommendations to SBA’s Administrator, as well as Deputy Administrator, SBA’s Associate Administrator for Veteran’s Business Development, Congress, the President, and other U.S. policymakers on programs affecting veteranowned small business.

Victoria Metaxas of LeClairRyan’s New Haven office, was sworn in as the president of the Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association (CDLA). CDLA is a notfor-profit, statewide organization of civil defense attorneys that promotes legal education, professional development, collegiality and networking for the civil defense bar.

It also serves as the voice of the civil defense bar to advance the fair administration of justice in civil litigation.

Matthew McCooe was appointed as chief executive officer of Connecticut Innovations (CI).

McCooe comes to CI from Chart Venture Partners (CVP), where he was a managing partner and fund manager focusing on investments in communications, green technologies, software and computer vision. McCooe

has a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College.

William Kohlhepp, associate vice president for faculty affairs, has been promoted to dean of the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University.

A physician assistant for more than 30 years, Kohlhepp is a tenured professor of physician assistant studies. He holds a doctorate in health sciences from Nova Southeastern University and a master’s degree in health administration from Quinnipiac. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the UMDNJ/Rutgers PA Program in New Jersey, a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Connecticut and an honorary doctor of humane letters from A.T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona.

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Patrick J. Healy, senior vice president for finance at Quinnipiac University, will retire June 30 after a career that spanned four decades at the university.

An alumnus of Quinnipiac, Healy joined the university’s administrative staff in 1972. Since then, the university has more than doubled the size of the Mount Carmel Campus and added two new campuses, York Hill and North Haven.

Gary D’Andrea has been promoted to First Vice President of Loan Operations at Bankwell.

He is responsible for all loan servicing functions, including documentation review, safekeeping, accounting, reconciliations and customer service.

Varholak He received a B.A. at Southern Connecticut State University and was an instructor at the New England College of Finance and the American Institute for Banking.

Rachel Bergman, writer and editor for Second Wind Media, publisher of Business New Haven and New Haven Magazine, was invited to be one of the 100 women to attend A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s annual writer’s retreat and WAVE discussion series.

The retreat, to be held at the Ghost Ranch, former home of artist Georgia O’Keefe, will take place in August. Bergman also teaches a writer’s workshop with the Giant Steps Program at the West Haven VA Hospital.

She holds a B.A. from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont.

The Connecticut Bar Association installed its officers for the 20152016 bar year at the CBA Annual Luncheon Meeting during the Connecticut Legal Conference at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

Those officers are: William H. Clendenen, Jr. of Clendenen & Shea LLC as President Monte E. Frank of Cohen and Wolf PC as President-elect Karen DeMeola, Assistant Dean of Student Life at UConn Law School as Vice President Christine Jean-Louis, Assistant Attorney General with the Attorney General’s Office Transportation Department, as Secretary Sylvia K. Rutkowska of Dzialo Pickett & Allen PC as Treasurer

Emily Graner Sexton, Appellate Prosecutor, Chief State’s Attorney’s Office as Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Mark A. Dubois of Geraghty & Bonnano LLC as Immediate Past President The Connecticut Bar Association is governed by a Board of Governors and House of Delegates.

John Adams was promoted to First Vice President, Director of IT at Bankwell.

He is responsible for managing the Information Technology department, maintaining the Bank’s PC and WAN/LAN architecture, including data communication equipment, network equipment, phone equipment and the day-to-day operation of the IT team.

Adams attended Central CT State University and has served on the CT Bankers Association Technology Committee.

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TECHNOLOGY Security Apps Coming To Forefront On Smart Phones Two Connecticut Tech Efforts Show Mobile Impact On Personal Safety

911 Digital and Mobile Getting Upgrades WOLCOT T: A new mobile friendly 911 Service is being rolled out in Wolcott. The new system will provide police with the ability to precisely identify locations for calls made from a cell phone, reportedly within fifty feet, versus a quarter of a mile with existing technology.

The roll out is part of a pilot program in Connecticut that will include nine other call centers around the state. The new system is expected to include two-way text messaging when fully implemented. The system may eventually allow the sending of images and videos to the dispatch center as well. The entire state should have the new system by the end of 2016.

The system is powered by the state’s more than 8,000 mile fiber optic network and paid for by a surcharge on the land lines and cells phones of 51 cents per month. By contrast, Arizona charges 20 cents, Alabama $1.75, Massachusetts 75 cents, and New Jersey 90 cents.

Seventy percent of 911 calls are currently made on mobile phones in Connecticut.

At The Push of A Button HARTFORD: A new tech start-up, Wearsafe, will soon be offering a new device created to add what the company describes as an “extra layer of safety with the press of just one button.”

Wearsafe is a small tag that fits in the palm of the hand and works in conjunction with a smart phone to alert a group of friends or family selected by the user as their “safety group.”

Co-founder Phil Giancarlo is a former Chief Technology Officer of Hartford Investment Management Company, the asset management group within The Hartford Insurance Company. Giancarlo says the product has been in development for 3 ½ years.

Once the “button “ is pushed, the smartphone tracks the location and speed and conversation, then texts and emails to the user’s safety group who can assess the danger and call first responders if necessary.

Co-Founder David Benoit, a lawyer with Aeton Law Partners in Middletown, explains that the response from the tag is “instantaneous.”

The cost is expected to be $38 plus a $5 monthly subscription.

Comcast Gives Broadband Boost PHILADELPHIA: Comcast residential users will be getting an internet speed boost. The company’s Blast! tier is being increased from 105 to 150 MBPS (megabytes per second). The company is adding a new “Performance Pro” 30

speed tier of 75 Mbps. New and existing customers who subscribe to many popular Xfinity Triple Play bundles will now receive Performance Pro, tripling their download speeds from 25 Mbps to 75 Mbps.

The new speeds and tiers will be available to the vast majority of new and existing customers starting by the end of July.

Seventy percent of 911 calls are currently made on mobile phones in Connecticut.

SeeClickFix Gets Cash Boost “Social Entrepreneurs” To Increase Employment NEW HAVEN: SeeClickFix, the citizen engagement platform for citizens to report problems such as potholes and graffiti, has raised $1.6 million in new funding. New Haven’s Elm Street Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Omidyar Network, Connecticut Innovations and LaunchCapital participated in the funding.

The company says the funds will be used “to double the size of the 25-employee company within the next year.”

SeeClickFix currently provides services to two hundred municipalities, and the new funding will provide the resources to expand the services it offers those municipalities. The systems widely referred to as ‘311’ systems allow communities to better interact with citizens, register and respond to problems via phone, computers and mobile devices.

SeeClickFix started as a service for residents to report and post problems, but has evolved into a tool for governments to communicate, manage and respond to a wide variety of citizen needs.

Locking In A Win NEW HAVEN: ASSA ABLOY’s [Stockholm, ASSA-B.ST] Corbin Russwin and SARGENT divisions have won the 2015 Commercial Integrator BEST Award for their IP-Enabled Campus Access Control Locks with HID [Human Interface Device] Mobile Access support.

The Commercial Integrator BEST Awards are awarded by Commercial Integrator Magazine of Framingham, Mass. According to the magazine, judging criteria is based on “innovation, functionality, competitive advantages, and benefits to the installer. The winners of the annual BEST Awards are chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators, and the editors of Commercial Integrator.”

The ASSA ABLOY product incorporates HID multi CLASS SE technology with a magnetic stripe reader, offering simultaneous support for multiple credentials and allows for issuing, delivering and revoking digital credentials on iOS and Android mobile phones and tablets.

Users can use existing IT infrastructure to simplify installation and expand their access control systems.

Using the facility Ethernet network, Power over Ethernet (PoE) locks provide full online access control with standard network cabling and “minimize energy consumption.” The company’s WiFi locks use 802.11 b/g/n.

Fueling A Green Vision for The Park City BRIDGEPORT: The Park City is expanding its green energy generation with a new 2.8-megawatt fuel cell facility and 9,000 solar panels. The new fuel cell will be located at the city’s Seaside Park landfill site. The project is being developed by UIL Holdings [NYSE: UIL] United Illuminating, which will pay $7 million over a twenty-year lease of the site.

Bridgeport already has a 14.9-megawatt fuel cell owned by Dominion Energy Resources [NYSE:D].

Currently, that site is the largest Fuel Cell generating site in the U.S. The Dominion fuel cells, as well as this new development, are both being built and managed by Fuel Cell Energy [Nasdaq: FCEL] of Danbury.

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