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REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK

An uncertain future

MALLS FACE CHALLENGES WITH SONO COLLECTION OPENING LATER THIS YEAR

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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ven as the area anxiously awaits the much-hyped opening of the SoNo Collection megamall in Norwalk, there are conflicting signs about just how healthy the shopping mall sector is.

In Fairfield County, this has been evident at the Stamford Town Center, which has seen a flurry of exits over the past few

months. Some of those were due to corporate bankruptcies — Charlotte Russe, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource — while The Walking Co. has been in and out of bankruptcy twice in the past decade, and the latest casualty, Kona Grill, has had its own financial troubles.

Others, including Williams-Sonoma and its affiliated brand Pottery Barn, Armani Exchange, J. Crew and Ann Taylor, simply moved out.

Dan Stolzenbach, general manager of the four-floor, 853,000-square-foot mall, put a positive spin on the exodus.

“Obviously, the recent announcement of closures of various national retailers is not welcome news,” he said. “But tenant vacancies create an opportunity to bring in new merchants that will better connect with our customers. Our leasing team is actively speaking to a variety of potential tenants and we will be opening some exciting new stores in the next few weeks.”

They include a showroom for luxury automaker Genesis Motor, the luxury vehicle division of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group. Although there is » » SONO

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Sen. Chris Murphy (left) listens to Mayor Harry Rilling and Chief of Economic and Community Development Jessica Casey describe economic development initiatives in Norwalk on April 15.

NORWALK DEVELOPMENT GOING STRONG, BUT WALK BRIDGE STILL A THORN FOR SOME

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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orwalk’s modernization efforts are, according to Mayor Harry Rilling, continuing to make steady and positive progress.

At least if you don’t include the Walk Bridge.

Something of a perennial headache for officials and residents alike since at least 2014, the 123-year-

old structure carries rail traffic on Metro-North’s New Haven Line as well as Amtrak service on the Northeast Corridor that serves passengers traveling between Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. The need to replace it first became obvious about five years ago, when the swingarm bridge failed to close twice, disrupting travel on the New Haven Line.

A year later, plans were » » NORWALK

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Stratford’s Biagio’s Osteria serves old-school Italian cuisine and charm

BY PHIL HALL

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hen Biagio Barone opened his restaurant Biagio’s Osteria in 2005 in Stratford’s Ryder’s Landing shopping plaza, he envisioned it as a stepping stone for the proverbial bigger and better. There was no aggressive marketing campaign to call attention to the Italian eatery upon its opening.

“My plan was to move down into lower Fairfield County and then into New York,” he recalled.

To Barone’s surprise, customer praise filtered to a restaurant critic at The New York Times.

The reviewer’s glowing praise for Biagio’s Osteria placed Barone into the dining scene spotlight and turned his off-the-beaten-path establishment into a must-visit destination.

“When the article came out it was crazy for a couple of years,” he said. “Maybe 5% or 10% of our customers are from Stratford. We pull a lot of people from lower Fairfield County. We get a lot of people who come down from the Hartford area. If it wasn’t for that New York Times article, I would never have been here.”

Barone initially pursued a computer science degree and began his career doing computer engineering for the Stew Leonard’s supermarket chain. But after a year behind the computer screen, he recognized he was in the wrong field.

“I’ve been cooking since I was a little boy,” he continued. “I got my inspiration from my father and my grandmother. We would travel to Italy every year for the summer since I was 6 or 7 and until I was 16 or 17. I was always just blown away by the food.”

Barone’s father ran a pizza parlor in the space that Biagio’s Osteria occupies, and his initial setting only accommodated 20 patrons. He has since expanded into the adjacent spaces and can now sit 150. Working from the recipes he learned during his summers in Italy, Barone sought to create a European-style intimacy in his business.

“Our menu is small and changes more often,” he explained.

“We’re not going crazy with 30 different dishes on the menu.

“People like simplicity in a dish. They don’t want crazy decorations anymore. They don’t want to look at it — they want to eat it.”

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I’ve been cooking since I was a little boy. I got my inspiration from my father and my grandmother. We would travel to Italy every year for the summer since I was 6 or 7 and until I was 16 or 17. I was always just blown away by the food.

Among the most popular meals is the zucca e pinoli, made on a pasta machine Barone purchased in Italy, stuffed with butternut squash, goat cheese and a pinoli cream sauce. Patrons also clamor for his veal ossobuco, but only the early arrivals at the restaurant get to enjoy it.

“I run out of it every night,” he said. “It’s a dish that we make daily, but it takes four or five hours to make. It simmers very slowly and when it’s gone it’s gone. People get upset, but I tell them I can’t make it two or three days in advance because it won’t be right. We make 25 or 30 of them and that’s where it goes.”

Barone takes charge of the ingredient gathering, shopping four days a week. “It’s a lot more work on that back end, but the

food comes out fresh,” he said.

Barone said he is toying with the idea of following the Italian approach of foregoing traditional menus and opting with the chef’s recommendation for the day’s meal. He has been approached by television cooking competition shows for guest appearances, but he has not been comfortable with the formats presented to him.

If there is a camera that Barone loves, it is the cell phone camera that his patrons use to share their meals on social media.

As for those long-ago plans of moving into the larger markets, Barone is glad that he let go of that idea.

“There is an old saying that a priest only preaches in one church,” he said. “This is my church here.”

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In the Court La Cremaillere, renowned French restaurant on NY-CT border, files for bankruptcy protection

BY BILL HELTZEL

— including $1.2 million owed to Celtic Bank and $250,000 to their niece.

In February, a Celtic Bank attorney, Erica R. Aisner, questioned the veracity of a document filed by Meyzen Family Realty, and cited a record of dodgy documents.

“Suspicions run high,” she said, when the debtor has provided documents that show payment of property taxes that were not paid, issued checks on an account with insufficient funds, provided nonexistent postal service receipt numbers to prove that payments were sent, and provided an insurance document “to show insurance was in place when it clearly was not.”

Two months later, La Cremaillere filed for bankruptcy protection. The new petition

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a Cremaillere has wine worth nearly $1.3 million in its cellar in Bedford, but not much else to keep the famed French restaurant financially afloat.

La Cremaillere petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 17, declaring nearly $1.4 million in assets and more than $2 million in liabilities.

As recently as September, the owners had expressed optimism when Meyzen Family Realty Associates, the company that owns the property and leases it to the restaurant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect the property from foreclosure.

They were close to refinancing the property, co-owner Barbara Meyzen said, and just needed “a few months breathing room” to finish the deal.

“The restaurant is experiencing an upsurge in business,” she stated, “which will allow it to begin paying rent once again.”

But in February, Celtic Bank Corp. of Salt Lake City informed the bankruptcy court in White Plains of a possible “doctored document” and asked permission to continue with foreclosure, including a claim on the wine collection.

“The debtor has repeatedly provided fraudulent documents to Celtic Bank,” attorney Dawn Kirby stated in a motion to modify the automatic stay on collecting debts.

“It is clear,” she said, “there is no hope of reorganization for this debtor.”

La Cremaillere, housed in a 1750s farmhouse on Bedford-Banksville Road, on the Connecticut border, has developed a reputation as an exemplar of fine French country cooking, under Robert Louis Meyzen in the 1960s, and later by his son and current co-owner, Robert Olivier Meyzen.

The restaurant began to struggle during the 2007-08 recession, Barbara Meyzen stated in a September bankruptcy court filing, “which made it difficult to pay the mortgages.”

The Meyzens, of Redding, Connecticut, had mortgaged the property to Celtic Bank in 2013, to secure a $900,500 promissory note on an SBA loan, and to their niece, Judy Smith, of Fort Worth, Texas, for a $155,000 loan.

Celtic filed for foreclosure in 2017.

Smith sued in February 2018, claiming that her signature had been forged on a satisfaction of mortgage document filed with the Westchester County Clerk in 2017.

She asked the court to nullify the release, reinstate the mortgage and award her $50,000 in damages.

When Meyzen Family Realty filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September, the petition automatically froze collection of debts, to enable the company to reorganize.

The Meyzens declared $2.8 million in assets — the value of the 3.75 acres and the farmhouse-restaurant — and $1,450,000 in liabilities

lists claims of $1,376,407 by Celtic Bank and $225,564 by L.J. Smith Investments LP but shows both as disputed.

The largest unsecured claim is $423,000 by the Internal Revenue Service, and is also listed as disputed.

Meyzen Family Realty has an agreement with The Lewinstein Family Trust of University Heights, Ohio, to loan nearly $2.7 million, according to the company’s attorney, H. Bruce Bronson of Harrison, in a response to Celtic Bank filed on March 4.

The new financing, he said, “can be put into place rather quickly and Celtic and other creditors of debtor can be repaid and the bankruptcy successfully concluded.”

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Norwalk’s Triax Technologies uses high-tech to mitigate construction site risk

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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ne word that you never want to hear on a construction site is “Oops” — and that’s where Peter Schermerhorn comes in. As the president and CEO of Norwalk-based Triax Technologies Inc., Schermerhorn offers the construction industry the Spot-r system to optimize worksite safety and mitigate risk management concerns.

Triax’s Spot-r is based on a proprietary mesh network with compact sensors and a cloud-based dashboard. The system consists of three hardware pieces — the Spot-r Clip worn by on-site workers, the Spot-r EquipTag to monitor real-time equipment location, operator identity and utilization, and the Spot-r EvacTag for augmenting evacuation procedures — while the system’s dashboard allows both on-site supervisors and off-site management to analyze construction operations in real time. The system’s network is a scalable communication protocol that does not require WiFi or GPS coverage to operate.

Schermerhorn’s original focus for his technology when he launched Triax in 2012 was not in construction, but in monitoring head

injuries in contact sports.

“The devices were placed where athletes got hit and measured the force of impact, while working to resolve the concussion crisis not just in football, but in non-helmeted sports as well,” he recalled. “Our focus was how to communicate data off of those sensors to the sideline in real time. That led to the development of communications protocols and a mesh network-type technology.”

Schermerhorn realized that this technology could be adapted into other environments, and his research found the construction industry was among the least digitized in the nation despite the risk and safety issues involved in its daily operations.

“We saw more comprehensive use of the technology in the construction vertical than in the athletics field,” he added. “In 2016, we made our move to focus exclusively on construction.”

Schermerhorn pointed out that the construction environment is among the most hostile for technology systems.

“The physical plant is constantly changing,” he explained. “You have a lot of concrete and steel that are constantly moving, which impedes radio frequency signals. You don’t have a lot of power availability. You have

workforces that, by the very nature of being subcontracted out, are coming and going with a lot of regularity. It is hard to imagine a less hospitable environment for systems like enterprise-wide WiFi or other technology advances that have driven a lot of gains in industries like manufacturing and warehousing.”

Triax’s reliance on proprietary technology was a key selling point for Schermerhorn, who pointed out that off the shelf or other protocols that worked well in other environments did not carry over to construction sites. He also acknowledged that construction workers would benefit from a system that was not overly complicated.

“Our key design protocol was that it had to be very user friendly,” he continued. “Most of the devices are run many months off D-cell batteries. And the software is quite easy to use.

We think of ourselves as a technology and service company, so our managers go to the site and are on call for the customers to make sure they are engaging effectively with the system.”

Schermerhorn admitted that the initial reaction to Spot-r was mixed.

“You have all degrees of sophistication,” he said. “The real cutting-edge market leaders and early adopters reacted with, ‘What took you guys so long? We’ve been looking for this

An organizer’s view of the Stop & Shop labor fight

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for the last 10 years.’ For others in the market, it was more of an education process.”

In addition to its Norwalk headquarters, Triax runs an engineering and programming office in East Hartford. Schermerhorn believed his company was “in a unique position to make Connecticut a favorable place for us to do business, because of insurance business in Hartford and United Rentals in Stamford. We cross paths a lot with Stanley Black & Decker as well. There are a lot of players in the construction risk space in Connecticut, too.”

After three years in the construction space, Triax is actively working with 25 general contractors across the country, with projects ranging from commercial and industrial developments to solar array installations. “We like large-scale projects because our networks can handle very large projects,” Schermerhorn said. “We also do a lot of smaller projects like commercial renovations.”

Schermerhorn envisioned opening additional regional offices for Triax across the country and exporting the technology to foreign markets. He also noted that the company is now “actively looking at other industries and keeping in mind the broad flexibility and applicability of the network.”

Strike cost Stop & Shop up to $110M

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or Tom Wilkinson, of Fairfield, a labor organizer by destiny and a practicing one the last 42 years, the recent successful 11-day strike by some 31,000 Stop & Shop workers was by all accounts a momentous event, perhaps the most momentous of his career.

The strike, the placards on the picket lines, the human faces, of course, were what caught the attention of not only the corporation, but the media and the public. That job action, though, came at the end of an exhausting three months of fruitless, frustrating negotiations by Wilkinson and other leaders of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.

Work like that takes its toll.

Wilkinson was born and bred in the union town of Lynn, Massachusetts, where his father was a mailman.

“GE was big in town, with the electrical workers,” he said. “Everybody was union.

‘Union’ was just part of our vocabulary. It was what we knew.

“We weren’t management, corporate types.”

He worked in a union market in Boston and found himself collecting strike benefits even before his probationary period on the job was up.

When a position as an organizer opened, he went for it. He’s never looked back. “You have to go to nonunion places and convince them the union is a better way of life,” he said.

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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (right) joins the picket lines.

Stop & Shop employee Justin Klein, of Milford, retrieves shopping carts outside the store at 855 Bridgeport Ave. in Milford.

Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media

He advanced to his position as international vice president and president of Local 371, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, responsible for operations in Connecticut and western Massachusetts. The UFCW is the successor organization to the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.

There’s the whiff of the gunfighter about Wilkinson, tall and slim, silver hair slicked back, a scar here, a scar there, the faded reminders of a more roustabout period in his life.

At age 65, he and his wife, Katie, are the parents of two sons and a daughter.

He is a student of the labor movement, a voracious reader who bestows books on labor history — and myriad other topics — on

his friends.

Wilkinson is proud, but not vengeful, about the success of this job action. Not because of his role in it, but because of the impact it will have on workers not only here, but around the country.

“This is reverberating around the country.

It’s a huge event,” he said. “The importance of this is the connection we made with the nonunion world.

“The heroes — if you want to use that word — of labor are the people who had the guts to organize, who didn’t have the union, to fight to get the union in.”

Michael J. Daly is the retired editor of the Connecticut Post editorial page. He can be reached at Mike.Daly@hearstmediact.com.

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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he 11-day strike by members of the United Food & Commercial Workers’ New England affiliates cost the Stop & Shop supermarket chain between $90 million and $110 million, according to the chain’s parent company Ahold Delhaize.

The Netherlands-based firm came to its figure based on lost sales — the strike spanned the Passover and Easter holidays, when grocery shopping activity spikes — along with perishable food that was donated to food banks or spoiled and the increased costs to staff stores and handle freight needs during the strike. Adding to the losses was the Teamsters union, which showed its support to the strikers by forcing its warehouse workers and drivers not to load trucks for deliveries to Stop & Shop stores.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER | By Margaret M. Sheahan

White collar overtime rules

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ow should Connecticut employers react to the proposed new federal rules on white collar overtime exemptions?

Not with panic, but not with a yawn, either.

It’s been a while since the Obama administration proposed jumping the minimum exemption from the current, outdated, annual $23,660 to close to $50,000 and to tying automatic future increases to the Consumer Price Index.

The magnitude of that proposed change was breathtaking for many employers and a federal court stopped implementation.

The Trump administration’s proposal would increase the salary minimum to start the exemption at about $35,000 per year.

Future changes would be considered every four years.

Other parts of the proposal would allow employers to count different kinds of compensation, like commissions and bonuses, toward the salary minimum.

An exemption from wage and overtime laws means an employee can work way beyond a typical 40-hour

week and not get a penny of overtime pay. It also means minimum hourly wage requirements don’t apply to that employee.

Another big difference from the Obama administration proposal concerns a high earnings threshold that exempts from overtime jobs with work content not qualifying for any standard white collar exemption.

Currently this applies to workers earning as little as $100,000 per year. Under the Obama administration proposal, this would have changed to $134,004. The Trump administration proposal would lift this higher to $147,414.

Before businesses get too excited about this, they should remember that Connecticut employers cannot take advantage of this exemption at whatever level the federal regulations may dictate as our state minimum wage and overtime law does not include a parallel provision and compliance with both federal and state law is required.

The current proposal would leave in place overtime

protections for certain professions like police officers, firefighters, nurses, emergency medical technicians and building tradespeople.

In practice, Connecticut salaries are often higher than the minimums for the kind of supervisory or policy decision-making roles the exemption covers so that the new minimums may not have considerable practical effect.

Those employers whose pay scales are low enough to be impacted might seek to control costs to some extent by using multiple workers with shorter work weeks to perform the jobs, avoiding the time-anda-half pay bump required for non-exempt work over 40 hours in a workweek.

With the current scarcity of workers, it is unlikely that employers seeking to hew to the cheapest legal compensation will be successful in the “battle for bodies” underway in U.S. labor markets.

Margaret Sheahan is an attorney at the law firm Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C. in Stratford. She can be reached at 203-873-0240 or MSheahan@mitchellandsheahan.com.

Michael P. Koskoff, prominent Bridgeport attorney, dies at 77

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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ichael P. Koskoff, a Bridgeportbased lawyer who gained prominence for representing nationally recognized clients, including the Black Panther Party and the family of Michael Jackson, died on April 24 at the age of 77.

A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, Koskoff became a trial lawyer in 1966, joining his father Theodore Koskoff in the firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, which was founded in 1936. His legal focus covered diverse subjects ranging from medical malpractice, aviation, personal injury and drug product liability.

He entered the media spotlight in 1970 by teaming with his father as part of the defense team representing members of the Black Panther Party in a series of 1970 trials in New Haven related to the murder of Black Panther member Alex Rackley, who was suspected by his comrades of being a federal informant.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Koskoff worked with black police and fire organizations in Bridgeport and New Haven, and in 1999 he was lead counsel in a class-action case accusing the state of Connecticut of illegal wiretapping that resulted in a $17 million settlement.

Koskoff was also part of the legal team retained by the family of Michael Jackson in

their lawsuit against Anschutz Entertainment Group and its concert promotion subsidiary, AEG Live, in connection to the pop singer’s drug-induced death in 2009.

Koskoff served as a member of the advisory board of the Quinnipiac College School of Law and for many years was appointed by the U.S. District Court in Connecticut as co-chairman of the Special Masters Program.

Koskoff studied acting with the American Shakespeare Academy and collaborated with his son Jacob on the screenplay of the 2017 film “Marshall,” about the life of Thurgood Marshall.

Koskoff was a Westport resident and is survived by his wife, Roz, and their children Josh, Jacob and Sarah.

Citrin Cooperman Corner Population Health Evolved: A Provider Focus

BY JOSH BERLIN, JD

JOSH BERLIN, JD

‘Population health management’ has become such a commonly utilized and accepted term in healthcare today, that one could argue it is as often overused and ill-defined as the term ‘strategy’ is in general business. With its genesis largely in the public health world, often attributed in the early 2000s to Drs. David Kindig and Greg Stoddart at the University of Wisconsin, the focus historically included the following elements – health outcomes, health determinants and interventions, and policies linking health determinants to health outcomes.

Today, and particularly as it relates to healthcare providers, which includes hospitals and health systems, physician practices, and long-term care organizations, the concept of population health management (“PHM”) has evolved from a ‘system’ of measurement to include a variety of factors more relevant to a dynamically changing healthcare industry. The capability to execute with excellence on PHM has become one of the key drivers for success for healthcare providers, which will continue to grow measurably over time.

The healthcare landscape continues to evolve dramatically, significantly disrupting the business models and strategies that providers and payors have depended upon for many years. More specifically, the change in reimbursement from fee-for-service, in which volume is the key driver, to fee-for-value, in which high-quality care at lower costs propels reimbursement, has led to a tumultuous period in which healthcare providers have reassessed how best to compete. In this value-driven environment, it is no coincidence an enhanced focus on PHM has arisen, considering that requisite in the reimbursement shift is an orientation towards improved health outcomes for individuals over an extended period of time, underpinned by amplified quality measures and metrics, and assessment based upon performance rigor and discipline.

All to say, certain core components, at a minimum, are required for an organization to have sustained success with its PHM strategy.

In particular, a provider organization desiring to amplify its PHM focus, should concentrate upon four areas, described as follows: • Enterprise Structure & Membership – including, but not limited to, leadership, education, human capital, organizational structure, and physician alignment • Clinical Maturity – including, but not limited to, clinical pathways/protocols, care management/ coordination, and performance management/ improvement • Information Management – including, but not limited to, infrastructure/interoperability, data integrity, tools/technology, and reporting • Contracting & Distribution – including, but not limited to, funding models, risk-based contracting, and alignment of financial incentives and funds flow Developing a quantitative and qualitative understanding in these four areas has been critical for organizations to develop and evolve their PHM efforts. By evaluating the position of the organization in each of these areas, provider

organizations can develop a highly-effective set of steps to advance the organization’s agenda moving forward.

The first area, Enterprise Structure & Membership, encompasses all of the activities an organization undertakes supporting its governance, design, and internal and external relationships, with a critical eye towards developing and integrating a sustainable PHM initiative. The second area, Clinical Maturity, spans those activities coordinating reliable and consistent clinical practices and programs, along with the rigor and discipline required to measure success in a PHM-concentrated environment. The third area, Information Management, embraces the need to understand an organization’s data and the tools required to move towards action, which accelerates and enables any PHM strategic initiative.

Finally, Contracting & Distribution contemplates the funding models and financial risk sharing that underpin an outcome-oriented PHM program.

Just like with any strategy, defining the hopedfor future of an organization is an essential initial act in embarking on the development of a PHM initiative. It is far more effective and efficient to align the internal and external components required to achieve PHM success if you understand the direction towards which you want to drive. Given the core areas bulleted previously, an organization should be able to both identify opportunities for improvement and develop a path towards meeting its longterm desired goals and objectives. This initial evaluation by healthcare providers across these four key areas facilitates an understanding of areas in need of emphasis that exist between today’s operating agenda and tomorrow’s intended future, while leading the organization to set in motion solutions to bridge any current areas of weakness.

Finally, as with any deliberate initiative, it is important to consider the industry staying power and long-term relevance of PHM, as well as its importance for the success of the organization. The advancements of technology, including artificial/augmented intelligence and predictive cloud computing, along with the evolution of policy towards more incentivized arrangements, at least indicate that those provider organizations embracing sound PHM efforts will be better positioned, no matter the market/industry changes to come. As a result, fully embracing an overarching PHM perspective, inclusive of a view to the whole person, no matter as a patient, employee, member, consumer or beneficiary, will likely enhance an organization’s path to success over time.

Developing a robust PHM strategy is a decisive step for healthcare providers that aim for current and long-term relevance and sustainability. Starting with the four key areas described above, organizations can achieve uncovering their key PHM disparities and set in motion a process that leads to weaving PHM into their enduring strategic fabric, cascading the accompanying efforts throughout the four walls of an organization and well beyond.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Josh Berlin, co-leader of Citrin Cooperman’s Healthcare Practice, is a seasoned business executive with over 20 years of experience across law, management consulting, and marketing/ communications disciplines, with a focus on strategy and business efficiency. This includes serving as a strategist, expert and advisor across the full healthcare ecosystem (providers, payors, employers, governments, and advocacy), facilitating the near-term success and longterm sustainability of those organizations he and his teams support. Josh can be reached at 404.805.8432 or at jberlin@citrincooperman.com.

Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and consulting firm with 14 domestic and international locations. Visit us at citrincooperman.com

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a Genesis dealer at 85 Magee Ave., less than a mile from the mall, the showroom will, as its moniker indicates, serve only as a means of marketing, not selling, its 2019 G70, G80 and G90 sedans.

Custom Candle Co., based in Bedford Hills, opened earlier this month and several new stores are on the way. Among those are: The Fix, a cell phone repair and accessories chain that is replacing the similar Cellairis, which left the mall in February; wireless company Boost Mobile; and a Kung Fu Kitchen restaurant.

A hosiery/shapewear company and a children’s play space are on the way. There will also be a “completely reimagined” Perfumania, which has been experimenting with what it calls “an interactive fragrance hub” since last fall. It emerged from Chapter 11 in 2017.

Enzennio Mallozzi, managing director, investment services in Colliers International’s Stamford office, said while the level of activity at Stamford Town Center is unusual, “it’s also par for the course at this point. A lot of companies are going bankrupt and malls in general are being faced with a new paradigm in retail.”

The so-called “Amazon effect” on retail — and some chains’ overly optimistic expansion plans — continue to be felt as never before.

According to Coresight Research,

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announced to begin construction on a new bridge in 2016, with a completion date of 2020.

But that work has yet to begin, mostly due to a host of complications. The project includes not just the Walk Bridge itself — price tag: $511 million — but also renovations to and/or replacement of several other bridges nearby, bringing the total cost to $1.2 billion.

“It’s been a long process,” Rilling told the Business Journal in December, “and there’s still quite some time to go.”

Plans currently call for Walk Bridge work to begin this fall.

Completion is estimated to take three to five years.

“It’s taking a long time,” said Norwalk Communications Manager and Grants Coordinator Josh Morgan. “Right now it’s all about taking down power lines and improving the sightlines.”

The new Walk Bridge will also

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through April 12 U.S. retailers announced 5,994 store closings, already outpacing 2018’s total of 5,862 closures. Store openings totaled 3,239 in 2018, compared with 2,641 so far this year.

A January report by Reis found the shopping center vacancy rate in 2018 stood at 10.2%, compared with 10% in 2017 and 9.9 percent in 2016.

“They’re being asked to reimagine themselves,” Mallozzi said, confirming what Richard Latella,

executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield, told the Business Journal last year: “The days of the cookie-cutter mall are gone. The bigger ones, as well as the ones being built, are generally looking to become more of a destination with something to offer beyond just retail.”

Mallozzi gave the Stamford mall credit for “trying something new” with Genesis. “Mall owners are willing to try something a little

more experiential when it comes to retail to attract people into their space,” he said. “That’s not going to be enough by itself” to significantly drive foot traffic — especially given that the models on show carry an MSRP of $34,900 to $69,350.

The Colliers executive said the operators of the 1.13 million-squarefoot Westfield Trumbull mall were also showing “a willingness to try to figure things out” with its stated interest in altering the town’s zon-

ing regulations to allow it to build 290 apartments on its 76-acre site.

But that plan has run into opposition from some citizens, and Trumbull First Selectman Vicki Tesoro dedicated a portion of her March 21 State of the Town Address to the subject. Noting that the mall had originally sought 580 apartments, Tesoro said the town was continuing to work with the mall to accommodate its plans while listening to residents’ concerns.

She noted that no official application regarding the construction of the 290 units has been filed with the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Macy’s at the Danbury Fair Mall, which at nearly 1.3 million square feet is the county’s largest, is considering expanding two of its pads there. One would result in a single-level wing of 37,000 square feet while the other would involve a separate building on an access drive that would total 22,000 square feet.

As for the 700,000-square-foot SoNo Collection, it is still on target for a mid-October opening to take advantage of the holiday season.

Anchored by Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom, the mall announced that women’s retail chain Chico’s is taking two spots, for a Chico’s and Soma, its intimate apparel chain.

Other recently announced occupants include international beauty chain Sephora, apparel retailer J. Jill and restaurant Yard House.

result in the razing and relocation of the nearby Maritime Aquarium’s IMAX theater. In 2018, an agreement was reached whereby the aquarium would have complete control of that work. Several iterations later, the city has taken over the project, including the administration of $34.5 million in state funds. Norwalk’s Common Council approved that agreement on Feb. 13 — two days after Maritime Aquarium President and CEO Maureen Hanley was “relieved” of her duties by its board of trustees, roughly three months after her hiring.

The episode has all the marks of a power struggle of some kind, but neither Hanley, the aquarium or the mayor’s office have officially commented.

Then came remarks made by Gov. Ned Lamont in response to a question about the “billion-dollar boondoggle bridge” following his speech before the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce in April.

Lamont said he would “take a look” at the project, which many took as a sign that further delays could be in the works.

Not so, said Rilling. “As far as I’m aware, the project is moving forward,” he said. “I don’t think there have been any discussions about delaying it.”

Lamont has not publicly spoken about the Walk Bridge since the April event. Requests for comment from the governor did not receive a reply.

Conservation group Norwalk Harbor Keeper has filed a lawsuit over the matter, maintaining that a fixed bridge would be a better solution than another swing bridge. Lisa Brinton, an independent running for mayor this year, has said various alternatives — including simply repairing the existing Walk Bridge — should be considered.

Rilling remained adamant that a new bridge was the best choice, both from an economic and an

environmental standpoint.

“This is not just about now, but a hundred years from now,” he said.

“This is valuable, valuable property we’re talking about. There could be boutiques and other shops on the water, and I’m not going to preclude the future use of the waterway from the bridge north by future generations” by endorsing an alternative to the Walk Bridge replacement.

Another lawmaker interested in the Walk Bridge’s future is U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who took a bus tour with the mayor and members of his staff on April 15 to review a number of construction projects around the city.

“Like a lot of people, I wish it was going faster,” Murphy told the Business Journal. “But the federal funding (about 40% of its overall cost) is still there. There have been problems in the past where federal money that was promised didn’t show up, but that hasn’t happened here.”

The senator said part of the reason for taking the tour was to be better informed when it comes to future federal funding for projects in the city. “I got a helpful overview of all the different development projects happening, which will help me identify federal opportunities as we get into the budget and appropriations process,” Murphy said.

Rilling and Murphy visited the city’s Wall Street and West Avenue corridor; South Norwalk and the SoNo train station; the SoNo Collection; Soundview Landing, formerly Washington Village; and East Norwalk.

Soundview Landing has been a particular point of pride for Rilling.

When work is done on what was the oldest public housing development in Connecticut, its 136 public housing units will have been replaced and 67 workforce housing units and 70 market-rate units added. Morgan said just one market-rate unit is still available.

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30 Belden Ave., Norwalk 06850 847-2444 • canaantechnology.com Year established: 2001 Executive(s): David Felton, principal and founder Description: Full-service managed IT services

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PO Logistics has released the first sustainability report in its history, emphasizing its efforts at reducing energy use, improving the efficiency of its fleet as well as its revised approach to employee benefits.

The last may be especially of interest to some observers as the Greenwich company came under fire last year for a variety of suspected labor violations, including allegations of pregnancy discrimination.

In February, XPO issued a press release promoting its new policy.

“An employee of XPO who becomes a new par-

ent through birth or adoption can qualify for up to six weeks of 100% paid leave as the infant’s primary caregiver,” CEO Bradley Jacobs writes in the report.

“Secondary caregivers can qualify for up to two weeks at 100% pay. This is in addition to significant accommodations during pregnancy.

“While pregnant, a woman can request accommodations without fear of retaliation,” Jacobs said.

“Many accommodations are an ‘automatic yes,’ while more extensive work arrangements are easily determined with input from her doctor. She receives up to 20 days of 100% paid prenatal leave for health and wellness and preparations for her child’s arrival.”

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The report also states that: programs focused on reducing energy use are in place at approximately 95% of its warehouse locations; XPO is working to build out more fuel-efficient truck fleets and actively working with customers who want to reduce their transportation emissions; and its own emissions numbers worldwide are improving, with Europe outpacing North America.

Jacobs indicated that XPO will produce sustainability reports annually as do competitors UPS, FedEx and C.H. Robinson.

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Ask Andi What’s market share all about?

We don’t have a clue what is our market share. We are in several vertical markets, but we don’t know how much just comes to us from each of those markets, and how much we have to fight to get. Nor do we have a plan for how much business we can count on, and how much we’ll have to bring on through existing or additional efforts.

THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: It’s about answering a series of questions: Why bother with figuring out market share? Where do you go to get data? Considering why your company is a big or small player in each market in which it participates.

Knowing about the potential of the markets you do business in is essential to determining where your business has potential to grow and where it might be vulnerable. Look at trends as well as specific numbers in a given period to determine if your target markets are growing or declining. Look at the percent of the market done by your company. Use that information to figure out if there’s a target on your company’s back because you’re a big player, or a lot of opportunity you can chase because you have a tiny portion of the market.

Ask your best customers if they have any data on their industry that they would be willing to share. Look to industry associations for data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau have a lot of info you can access and mine. Sign onto a database service to look up market size and other details

by SIC or NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code. Ask your banker for connections to their economic department where you might be able to find useful information.

Separate revenue into categories of markets in which you do business. Break it down into at least 3 to 5 equal-size groups — more groups is usually better. Figure out whether your revenue is growing, declining or holding steady in each group. Then look at why for each market. How many external factors are driving your markets? How much of what’s happening to your revenue comes from your company’s internal efforts?

For each vertical market, consider how you’re doing. Look at factors such as sales efforts, marketing results, competitive threats and the ability to successfully service your clients in each market. Identify where you’re weak or strong, by factor, by market. Consider whether strengthening or weakening by market is under your control or out of your control.

For example, if you could get more market share by adding to your sales force, that’s under your control. If you have a competitor who recently ramped up their influence and is pull-

ing work away from you, that’s not under your control. If you’ve had problems servicing customers, that might be under your control and it might not. If you’ve chased the wrong customers for what your company does well, that’s a sales and marketing problem you can fix.

If customers have changed and want something entirely different from what they used to want, that is out of your control. But you can respond. You have to decide if you can make enough operational or sales/marketing changes to counter those changing customer needs.

It is possible to gain a lot of control over current and future market share. You have to be willing to do the analysis to understand what’s going on. Then make choices about changes to implement. Decide on the budget to put to changes and match that budget to the expected return on investment to make sure you’ll get your money back and then some. And then get to work!

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New Raveis tool aims to streamline mortgage process

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illiam Raveis Mortgage has introduced a tool that it says can dramatically benefit customers as well as its own mortgage brokers.

“Decreasing the amount of time to get the financing by moving to this digital process was our goal,” said Ryan Raveis, co-president of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance (WRRE) and president of its WRM division.

The process in question is Xcelerator365, which allows customers to apply for a mortgage from anywhere to get their financing quickly and efficiently. By integrating with most major financial institutions, WRM has also cut down on processing times by safely and securely connecting finances and sending documents

electronically.

Xcelerator365 is the latest in a series of tech innovations that the Sheltonbased firm has unveiled over the past couple of years, ranging from an automated valuation model, an open-house app and a 3-D capability to show properties to an entirely paperless mortgage process. WRRE is the No. 1 family-owned real estate company in the Northeast and the No. 9 real estate company in the country, according to consulting group REAL Trends. Last year it produced $11.3 billion in real estate sales.

WRM originated over $700 million in mortgages in 2018. The firm offers most types of mortgage products, including conforming 15- and 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages, adjustable-rate mortgages, jumbo, super jumbo, interest-only, blended loans, second mortgages, home equity lines of credit, FHA,

Xcelerator365 allows customers to apply for a mortgage.

VA, CHFA and MHFA loans.

WRM also relaunched a mobile-optimized website, raveismortgage.com, and a mobile app that tracks every step in the mortgage process in what he said is a transparent and seamless way, making it easier to navigate for loan officers, real estate agents and borrowers.

Tested over the past year, the tool was formally launched in April. He said about 100 deals had taken place using the tool so far.

But how fast is it? Raveis noted that the Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 mandates that the time between the application date (the date a loan estimate is issued) to closing a sale must be a minimum of seven business days. Xcelerator365 can do the work in as little as eight.

WRM’s brokers need no special training to use the tool, leading to what Raveis

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“The company almost simultaneously released Xcelerator365 and the mortgage app for phones,” the Westport-based Rivera said.

“The combination of the two has been spectacular.

“If it’s a Saturday morning and the office is closed, the client can call me and I can send them the application, help them with it if necessary over the phone and get the pre-approval in place quickly.”

As for what type of customers are impressed by Xcelerator365, Rivera said: “Most of the older-school customers don’t really like the tech, while the newer school expects the tech. But either way, it’s very simple, intuitive and streamlined.”

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Focus On REAL ESTATE

Selling lifestyle in addition to location, location, location

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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ome people are surprised that a real estate company would create a website that isn’t all about selling houses,” Anne Marie Gianutsos, chief marketing officer of Houlihan Lawrence, said about the brokerage’s new online initiative to offer clients and prospects a source for lifestyle information.

After a six-month development period, the new website “North of NYC” went live on April 17. “The feedback has been very positive. In the first week, we’ve already had thousands of visitors who have come to the site,” Gianutsos told the Business Journal.

Rather than presenting listings of houses

along with co-ops and condos for sale, the website is designed to provide a guide to living in the Westchester, Hudson Valley and Connecticut communities served by Houlihan Lawrence. The company’s main website houlihanlawrence.com continues to be the access point for seeing listings, browsing the roster of agents and conducting related business.

The new website’s address https://northof.nyc needs to be carefully entered. If the prefix https:// is not accurate or a computer automatically adds the extension .com to the address, it will lead to a dead-end.

“Houlihan Lawrence fully understands that when a city buyer is having the ‘do I stay or do I go decision,’ they need access to more lifestyle information to help them make that decision,” Gianutsos said. “Let’s say you know that you

really love the walkability of your city life. You may want to explore the towns that have a strong center.”

The website offers various interactive elements, such as interactive maps that let users explore hundreds of curated shops, restaurants and cultural attractions. Across the top of the landing page are the tabs “lifestyles,” “places,” “homes,” “journeys,” “happenings,” “how-to’s” and “news” along with a search function. The lifestyles page offers a choice of six categories: cosmopolitan; equestrian; locavore; trailblazer; villager; and waterfronter. The “places” section offers profiles on 31 communities.

“We cover Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and even beyond that into the Hudson Valley, Ulster and Columbia counties and even into Fairfield County in Connecticut,” Gianutsos said.

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Gianutsos said they believe that the new website will be useful even after someone has bought a house using a Houlihan Lawrence agent. “We think that many people, after they purchase their home, can benefit from the site.

Often, people turn to their agents who become their friends with ‘what can I do this weekend.’ ” She said by the time they were ready to launch the site, they had content contributions from 13 Houlihan Lawrence agents. “In just the first week of this being live, we’ve had close to 50 more agents sign up and contribute their own content.”

The new website represents a departure from the type of content which traditionally has been associated with real estate advertising, which typically highlights the physical elements of properties, including what some consider to be unexciting but nonetheless important items such as whether a house has a new roof or a boiler which is in dire need of replacement.

The website was designed and built by King & Partners, a New York City marketing, content and technology firm. Gianutsos described the cost as “substantial.”

Connecticut singlefamily home sales down for eighth straight month

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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ingle-family home sales and prices in Connecticut were down during March while the state’s condominium market saw upward motion, according to data from The Warren Group, publisher of The Commercial Record.

The month saw 1,983 single-family home sales, down from the 2,081 transactions recorded in March 2018. This marks the eighth consecutive month when sales were down on a year-over-year basis. The median single-family home price was $243,000, down from $247,000 one year ago. Year to date, there have been 5,491 single-family home sales in Connecticut, a 7.5% decrease from the first quarter of 2018, while the year-to-date median sale price of $235,000 is 2.1% lower than the same period last year.

Condominium sales in Connecticut rose to 650 transactions, up from the 636 sales recorded in March 2018. The median sale price for this sector inched up to $163,500 compared with $162,500 a year earlier. Year to date, there have been 1,660 condo sales in Connecticut, a 5.9% decrease from the first three months of 2018, while the median sale price of $155,000 is 0.8% above the same period last year.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER | By David Richman

Searching for commercial property? Heed Richman’s rules of thumb

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ommercial real estate may be one of the most important investments you can make. But unlike the residential market, finding the right space then negotiating a lease or purchasing a property can be quite complex.

Before your next deal, consider Richman’s rules of thumb: Before you begin your search you’ll want to engage a commercial real estate professional to be your agent.

This person will advocate for your best interests, be impartial, help you to properly evaluate your options and make recommendations for your best course of action. The idea is to save yourself time and money to avoid a series of costly mistakes as commercial properties carry a certain amount of risk.

After you equip yourself with an agent who will best represent you, decide on location. You’ve heard it before: “Location, location, location,” and it’s true. If you’re purchasing a property, location will be important to filling your building with tenants. The location also will dictate what kind of commercial zoning rules and other regulations and guidelines are in play. If you are leasing space, take into consideration commuting time, access to clients and proximity to public transportation. The latter is particularly of interest to the millennial generation.

If you are leasing space, plan for future growth.

Companies often outgrow their space prior to the end of their lease term. If future growth is imminent, consider taking on some additional space today. If the projected growth is further down the road, see about negotiating for rights of first refusal and expansion options for additional space in the building.

Working with your agent,

create a mock layout showing the desired number and size of offices you will need in the space, the amount and size of open workspace, conference rooms, reception and utility rooms. Also to be considered are where in the office your workers and management will be located and what their respective needs might be.

Sometimes it makes more economic sense to lease a slightly larger space where the configuration is better suited to your needs, than taking a smaller space requiring extensive renovation. Renovation work is generally factored in by the landlord, so price-wise it may be more to your advantage to go for the larger space.

Understand the amenities and limitations of a particular property. In warmer weather, does the cooling system go off in the evenings and weekends? What does the parking situation look like? How and when are visitors able to access the building? Is security tight or lax?

Understand all of your true occupancy costs ahead of time. Ask questions regarding your financial responsibilities. Calculating your occupancy costs correctly is important for managing the expenses of your company. Unfortunately, many companies underestimate their occupancy costs or forget to consider how they contribute to the overall cost of occupying a commercial space.

First there’s the rent, which you’ll be paying every month. But have you factored in insurance, particularly liability insurance, which is necessary to protect your business, and is usually required in the lease agreement? Are the costs of utilities included in your rent or are they paid directly by you? Do you need to

pay for cleaning services?

And do not forget to budget for future rent increases and increases for building operating expenses and real estate taxes, as these are very common costs which will begin to add up.

Make sure you have an agreed-upon detailed term sheet outlined by the time you request a lease. The term sheet is often non-binding yet is the basis of the eventual lease agreement. It should contain the cost items of the lease, their escalations, size of the space, parking allocation, landlord’s fit-out obligations, security deposit amount, etc. If you are not comfortable with the terms presented by the landlord, work with your agent to resolve the most important issues. You should agree on the terms before the lease is drawn up.

If renovations are part of the deal, carefully review for accuracy the scope of work the landlord will perform including details such as carpeting, paint, tile/flooring, finishes, window treatments (if desired), millwork, glass vision panels or sidelights, etc.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Make sure you have more than one option as deals can often fall through. Act early as time gives you options. The sooner you begin the leasing process, the more prepared you will be to make the many important decisions necessary to successfully lease space. It also gives your agent greater leverage at the negotiating table. Begin the lease renewal process at least six months before your lease expiration, and significantly sooner should your existing lease have a renewal option, and for tenants of larger office spaces.

David Richman is CEO of RAKOW Commercial Realty Group, serving Westchester and Fairfield counties.

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Demographics, the economy and lifestyles figure in real estate forecast

From left: John S. Traynor, HaNa Park, Chris Halliburton, Louise Phillips Forbes, Clayton Fowler and Michael Glynn. Photos by Sebastián Flores.

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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e only do towns, trains or water. If it’s not one of those, don’t do it around here,” was the advice Clayton H. Fowler, founding partner, chairman and CEO of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, offered to an audience of about 200 at the C. V. Rich Mansion in White Plains on April 30. He was one of six panelists appearing at Westfair Communications’ Commercial & Residential Real Estate Forecast event focusing on Westchester, Fairfield and New York City.

The event was presented

by Westfair Communications, publisher of The Westchester County Business Journal, The Fairfield County Business Journal and WAG magazine. Sponsors and supporters included the Cappelli Organization, including LRC Construction LLC and Fuller Development Company, Inc.; GS&S Awnings; McCullough Goldberger & Staudt, LLP; Rakow Commercial Realty Group; Jones Lang LaSalle;

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Fowler has more than 35 years of experience in the acquisition, development, construction and management of residential and commercial projects. Among his projects have been 1,600 housing units in Westchester and Fairfield.

“We’ve never been busier,” he said. “Fairfield County is doing fine, but it’s at the edge of the precipice. You have to choose your spots.”

The other panelists were: Louise Phillips Forbes, a leading broker in New York City through The Louise Forbes Team who has been in real estate for more than three decades and sold more than $3.5 billion in properties; Michael Glynn, vice president of National Development, a developer of senior housing in the Northeast; real estate broker Chris Halliburton of The Halliburton Team/Compus, who has worked on the development of more than 300,000 square feet of new residential construction in

New York City; HaNa Park, vice president of acquisitions for Starwood Capital, whose career includes positions at True North Management Group, Broadway Partners, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup; and John S. Traynor, executive vice president and chief investment officer of People’s United Wealth Management, who led off with a presentation on the state of the economy.

Traynor said that although data show that the economy is slowing, that’s a good thing because if the economy had been doing what President Donald Trump had been claiming he would produce, “I guarantee you the (Federal Reserve Bank) would have both feet on the brakes, interest rates would be going through the roof and all of our businesses would be very different right now.” He warned that wage inflation could pose a problem and if volatility in the stock market during 2018 made people nervous, “get used to it. Volatility will increase. It probably actually will get a little bit worse.”

Traynor said that a devel-

oper working in Connecticut is seeing a different environment than in the neighboring states of New York and Massachusetts, in part, because Connecticut peaked in worker employment back in 1989 and has been slow to recover jobs lost in the 2008 recession. “Massachusetts has regained 350% of the jobs they lost. New York has regained over 200% of the jobs. Connecticut has regained about 90% of the jobs.” Traynor did point out that Fairfield County is growing even though the rest of the state may be struggling.

Park pointed to the attractiveness young people find in the West and South these days. “A lot of the target markets I focus on tend to be the red states. You’re not seeing high income taxes or high property taxes.”

Halliburton said, “At this moment, two sort of polar opposite populations are dominating the world.” He said they are millennials who represent 30% or 31% and the baby boomers who represent 15% to 16%. “I think that’s the driver in residential real estate.”

He said those two groups, although differing in age, are like-minded in some ways. “They don’t want to travel 20 miles to go to a restaurant. They want to live in a community. They don’t want necessarily the responsibilities of taking care of a two-acre yard or anything like that and they want to be close to transportation so they don’t have to depend on their cars.”

Forbes said many of her buyers are taking a long-term view of the market and taking advantage of today’s low interest rates while they last.

“Over the last 40 years the average interest rate is 9%. I came into the business when it was 12.4%. I’m bullish on the market today, but as a buyer you need to shut the noise out and know what’s right for you as an individual.”

Glynn said his firm’s focus on senior housing, including developing assisted living facilities, provides some protection from economic uncertainty. “It’s a specialized skill to be able to operate these, so just any developer can’t really get in and do a great job. You need

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to be partnered with a terrific operator. So, yes, while the economic cycle definitely affects us, we’re a bit protected in other ways so we’re not terribly scared.”

Glynn talked about a project National Development is doing on Bloomingdale Road in White Plains, Waterstone Westchester. “It’s independent living for 75-plus-yearolds.” He said the market area is defined as being within a seven-mile radius from the site. “The population in five years is expected to grow about 2%. The 65- to 74-yearold cohort is expected to grow 20% to 22%. The 85- to 87-year-old a little less, about 6% to 7%, so we’re benefitting from that trend.”

Fowler said millennials and downsizing seniors want a maintenance-free lifestyle and don’t want to be tied to a mortgage. “We built around 3,000 condos in Portland, Oregon. We can’t give away a condo right now. We’re stuck at two-thirds sold. Why? People want mobility. I’m a little bit concerned at that.

They don’t want to own.”

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that in New York City, there are people who want to own and that only 38% of residential properties can be bought. “The reason our housing recovered the way that it did was with the interest rates being so suppressed. I just read an article last night saying it was cheaper to own in 40 states than it was to rent.”

“New York is an anomaly,” Halliburton chimed in. “The bar to enter into owning in Manhattan is a million bucks to get something other than a studio.”

Fowler pointed to the softness in the luxury end of the single-family market in Westchester and Fairfield. “I think you have to be really careful to say everything around here is going to sell, because there are a lot of people having problems selling houses.”

Regarding development, Fowler said, “Generally speaking, real estate’s fundamen-

tals continue to go on. Why? America does keep growing.

We keep making more kids. I think there’s a natural cycle that we’re perpetuating with an ebb and flow of financing rates. Sometimes it’s a little bit better, sometimes a little bit worse. There’s no home run.

It’s a hard- knocks business.”

The softness in the high end of the residential real estate market caused by federal tax changes limiting deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT), especially real estate taxes, was brought up. “I noticed in paging through the Business Journal just before I got here that the impact of SALT seems to have influenced home values by downward 3.7%. I think that’s the tip of the iceberg, to tell you the truth,” Fowler said. “We all know what that tax law did. It put a lot more money in the pockets of the rich, pretended to put money in middle class pockets and maybe (put) $100 more in the pockets of poor people. It was a bamboozle, point blank.”

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Good Things BRIDGEPORT STEM TO JOIN GLOBAL STEM LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE The Greater Bridgeport STEM Learning Ecosystem, an initiative of the United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, has been selected to join the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice (SLECoP) in a highly competitive process in which it is one of 15 new ecosystems to join the global movement devoted to dramatic improvement in how students learn.

STEM Learning Ecosystems builds meaningful regional connections among educators, business and industry partners, afterschool and summer programs, to prepare students for the opportunities and challenges of the future. Each ecosystem connects to counterparts from across the country and world, enabling the exchange of best practices, information and resource sharing.

The 15 ecosystems joining the SLECoP bring the number to 85 total, with most in the U.S. but also extending to Canada, Mexico, Israel and Kenya.

The new Greater Bridgeport STEM Learning Ecosystem includes members from a range of sectors, including education, business and civic, nonprofit and youth-serving participants.

Support in Bridgeport is provided by Bridgeport Prospers, a collective impact movement devoted to changing outcomes for all children, from cradle to career. It is a member of StriveTogether, a national nonprofit working to bring communities together around data to make decisions and improve results for kids.

Bridgeport Prospers is an initiative of the United Way of Coastal Fairfield County.

HOME CAREGIVER AWARDED

Indra K. Nooyi

FORMER PEPSICO CHAIRMAN TO RECEIVE HONOR

From left: Ron D’Aquila, ALS CEO; Doreen Harrison, award recipient; Tom Daly, ALS general manager and director of live-in services; and Mario D’Aquila, ALS chief operating officer.

Assisted Living Services (ALS) caregiver Doreen Harrison was honored with the homecare agency’s Platinum Caregiver Award for the month of March at a surprise presentation in the home of an agency client. In addition to a check for $5,000, the monthly

award includes a crystal statue and a certificate of merit. Harrison has been with ALS for the past 3½ years.

Harrison was selected after earning the highest quality score from Homecare Pulse, a third-party survey company that

measures customer satisfaction. Clients or family members are contacted at random to rate the services and quality of care that is being provided. They have the opportunity to mention caregivers who went “above and beyond” when caring for them or their loved one.

BANK LAUNCHES PET ADOPTION PROJECT

DARIEN ROTARY’S FAIR BENEFITS CARVER SCHOLARSHIPS The Rotary Club of Darien held a Spring Into Wellness! fair fund-raiser at Darien Office Suites to benefit The Carver Foundation of Norwalk. All event proceeds were donated to scholarships that enable Carver High School graduates in need to cover the cost of attending Norwalk Community College for a full year, estimated at $5,000.

Carver provides after-school and summer programs for over 1,400 K-12 students at the Carver Community Center as well as 13 schools in Norwalk and one in Bridgeport, emphasizing a positive, safe and fun learning environment.

Since 2005, 100% of Carver seniors have graduated from high school on time. Almost all go on to become first-generation college students.

Participating local organizations included LYMBR, Andrew Stephanou Salon and Spa, Darien EMS-Post 53, the Darien Health Department, OsteoStrong, Phyllis Weihs-Yavner, Kristina Hess, Vasayo, Diana Lea and Green & Tonic.

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On May 8, the Greenwich Historical Society will present its History in the Making Award to former PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi at Round Hill Club.

The award recognizes Greenwich residents who have made a meaningful impact on the world through their leadership and contributions in their professional and personal lives. Nooyi will speak on women in leadership to coincide with the national centennial of the 19th Amendment that gave U.S. women the right to vote.

Prior to becoming chairman, Nooyi served as PepsiCo’s president and chief financial officer. Since joining the company in 1994, she directed PepsiCo’s global strategy and led its restructuring, including the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats, the merger with PepsiCo’s anchor bottlers and the acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann, the largest international acquisition in PepsiCo’s history.

Proceeds from the event will support the Historical Society’s upcoming exhibition and education programs in 2020 on Greenwich and the suffrage movement.

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ENVIROTECH DELIVERS FINISHING TOUCH TO HABITAT HOME

From left: Congressman Jim Himes, Bankwell Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff Laura Waitz, Bankwell Assistant Vice President and Marketing Manager Lucy French holding Zumba, photographer Michael Bagley and Bankwell Executive Assistant to the CEO Lynne Gomez holding Bowie.

Bankwell has announced the re-launch of its Bankwell Pet Adoption Project that creates awareness about the many dogs and cats in need of homes at animal shelters throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties. This is the third year for the program, which features photos and information about available dogs and cats on billboards, ads, social media, the bank’s website and throughout all of the bank’s branches. The bank kicked off the program in the spring of 2017 and the adoption rate at local shelters

spiked — with more than 85% of featured animals finding a home last year.

Portraits of the featured animals are made possible by local photographer Michael Bagley who is passionate about animal rescue, devoting hundreds of hours each year, working with animal shelters and rescues to photograph adoptable dogs and cats.

Through June 30, all Bankwell branches will serve as collection points for a “wish list” of pet supplies to benefit local rescues. A list of those items is available

on the bank’s website (mybankwell.com/ pleaseadoptme). Bankwell has partnered with Animal Haven, ROAR, STARelief and Pet Assistance, Stamford Animal Control, Red Leash Rescue, Strays & Others, PAWS in Norwalk, One More Dog Rescue, Shaggy Dog Rescue, WASA and the Connecticut Humane Society for this project.

Bankwell will also be matching donations to local rescues made through the bank’s coin machines that are located throughout most of its branches.

EnviroTech delivered 22 tons of topsoil to the Housatonic Habitat home in New Milford, which was the finishing touch on the stick-built residence for a family of four, according to Executive Director Fran Normann.

“We were pleased when Gloria Vargas of EnviroTech came forward to offer the services of her company,” Normann said. “While we didn’t have an immediate project then, having EnviroTech on our resource list was a great benefit to building workforce housing in our region.”

For more, visit housatonichabitat.org.

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GAY GATHERINGS

John R. Patrick

INTERNET EXPERT KEYNOTES HABITAT BENEFIT John R. Patrick, an international lecturer, author, president of Attitude LLC and former vice president for internet technology at IBM, where he worked for 35 years, will present a free talk and book signing at Attitude Opportunities on Thursday, June 6, as a benefit for the Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the ballroom at Western Connecticut State University’s West Side ballroom.

Splitting his time between his homes in Danbury and Florida, he has published five books, including his most recent, “Home Attitude: Everything You Need To Know To Make Your Home Smart.” Other titles include “Election Attitude — How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy” (2016) and “Net Attitude: What it is, How to Get it, and Why it is More Important Than Ever” (2016).

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$20,000 IN GRANTS FROM NEWMAN’S OWN FOR TRAIL The Norwalk River Valley Trail (NRVT) has received $20,000 in grants from Newman’s Own Foundation, the independent foundation created by the late actor and philanthropist, Paul Newman.

The NRVT is a multiuse trail with a vision of extending for 30 miles, connecting Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk through Wilton, Ridgefield and Redding and terminating at Rogers Park in Danbury. The NRVT will be a 10-foot-wide, handicap-accessible trail creating recreation opportunities for walkers, hikers, cyclists, kids and pets. It will offer a healthy transportation alternative to access rail stations, schools, offices and businesses. Eight miles of trail have been completed in Norwalk and Wilton.

Newman’s Own Foundation uses all net profits and royalties from the sale of Newman’s Own food and beverage products for charitable purposes. Since 1982, Paul Newman and Newman’s Own Foundation have donated more than $540 million to thousands of charities around the world.

Philip Johnson, David Whitney and the Modern Arts explore interactions at the Philip Johnson-designed Glass House in New Canaan among eight gay men who profoundly shaped 20th-century artistic culture: architect Johnson and his longtime partner, curator/ collector Whitney; composer John Cage; choreographer Merce Cunningham; ballet impresario Lincoln Kirstein; and artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. On exhibit from now to Aug. 19.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of New York’s Stonewall Uprising in 1969, a watershed in the contemporary gay rights movement, and the 70th anniversary of the completion of the Glass House in 1949, Gay Gatherings underscores an essential element of the site›s history that has not been fully presented as part of its public interpretation up to this time. “The exhibition highlights the Glass House as an intellectual and artistic gathering place,” said Thomas Mellins, co-curator of the show, “where these men’s work was collected, exhibited and performed.”

While, from the first, the Glass House served as a salon, it became even more so once Johnson was joined in New Canaan by Whitney, the man who would be his partner, beginning in 1960, until the end of both of their lives in 2005., Johnson described Whitney using one of his highest forms of praise — “David has an eye”— a term Johnson applied rarely and just to those with the most extraordinary abilities as curators, collectors, and patrons.

Dr. Tammy Hartman

SPECIAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATOR NAMED IN NEW CANAAN New Canaan Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Bryan Luizzi has announced the appointment of Tammy Hartman, Ph.D., as New Canaan High School’s (NCHS) new special education administrator. In making the announcement, Luizzi thanked the 15-member search committee, which included administrators, counselors, teachers, nursing staff and a NCHS parent, for their excellent work.

In her new position, effective July 1, 2019, Hartman will coordinate special education and will serve as administrator for the special education programs at NCHS. Under the direction Andy Warhol in the Brick House under a sculpture by Ibram Lassaw. Photo by David McCabe, 1964-1965. of the director of pupil and family services, she “As gay men in a relationship that enof gay men were prevalent and increasingly will assist with staffing, budgeting, data coldured for nearly 45 years,” Donald Albrecht, acknowledged within mainstream culture.” lection and reporting, staff development and co-curator of the exhibition noted, “they preFor more information, contact Christa program implementation and evaluation for sided over an intellectually adventurous site Carr, director of communications, atccarr@ identified special education programs. during a period when the artistic contributions theglasshouse.org or 203-275-7565.

Hartman is currently coordinator of psychological services for Ridgefield Public Schools.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Maine, her Master’s in School Psychology degree and Connecticut Administrators Certificate from Southern Connecticut State University, and her Doctor of Philosophy in educational psychology from Capella University in Minnesota.

LMMM HONORS 19TH AMENDMENT

PREMIER WINS SEVEN AWARDS

Photo courtesy: Elsie M. Hill Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Library.

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution with its new exhibition titled, “From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers,” from May 16

to Nov. 3, noon to 4 p.m.; opening reception May 16, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

During the summer of 1913 The Connecticut Players performed the British pro-suffrage play, “How the Vote was

Won.” Stage managed by Alyse Gregory of Norwalk, the cast members also included Elsie Hill, holding a sign “This Way to the Poorhouse,” and her sister Clara, seated in the front row wearing a black bonnet.

Printing Industries of New England (PINE) has announced that Premier Graphics of Stratford is a multiple award winner in the association’s New England regional Awards of Excellence Competition. The announcement was made with hundreds of industry professionals in attendance at PINE’s Industry Awards Gala.

The competition attracted more than 300 entries from over 35 companies across New England competing in a variety of printing and graphic communications categories. A panel of judges with experience in printing and print production were brought in to examine the wide range of work submitted.

Premier won four Pinnacle Awards (Best of Category), one Award of Recognition and two Awards of Merit.

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Good Things NEW POSITION, CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER AT SILVER HILL, FILLED Silver Hill Hospital, a nationally recognized leader in the treatment of psychiatric and addiction disorders in New Canaan, has announced the appointment of Michael D. Groat, MSC, Ph.D., to the newly created position of chief clinical officer. In this role, Groat will apply his extensive clinical and leadership experience to overseeing, coordinating and supporting Silver Hill’s entire clinical operation, including inpatient care, transitional living, admissions and staff.

Groat comes to Silver Hill from CooperRiis in Asheville, North Carolina, a 100-bed residential treatment and transitional living program where he has served as president and CEO since 2016. Prior to his role at CooperRiis, he rose through the ranks at Menninger Clinic, a specialty psychiatric hospital in Houston over the course of eight years. During that time, he also was a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine, teaching psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Among the initiatives that Groat plans to prioritize at Silver Hill are overseeing the opening of a newly renovated inpatient program that will offer facilities for managing detoxification and expanding Silver Hill’s outpatient services.

Groat completed his psychology training at Albany Medical College and as a fellow at the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Anna Freud Center Program at Yale Child Study Center and at Austen Riggs Center. He received his doctoral degree in psychology from the State University of New York and his Master of Science degree from Miami University in Ohio.

Silver Hill Hospital, established in 1931, admits more than 3,000 adolescents and adults annually for disorders that include addiction, depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, personality disorders and more.

WORKFORCE TAKES TO THE ROAD IN NEW VEHICLE

The American Job Center Career Coach.

The WorkPlace in Bridgeport has launched a new American Job Center Career Coach, which will replace one that has been on the road since 2004, bringing a mobile classroom to people and delivering both career services and training opportunities traditionally available in an American Job Center.

Employers have also used the Career Coach to provide customized training services and recruit talent for their workforces.

The new Career Coach is a self-contained vehicle equipped with state-ofthe-art training technology equipment. It offers the residents of southwestern Connecticut a full array of employment, career preparation and computer training services — the same services The WorkPlace and its partners offer at the American Job Centers in Bridgeport, Ansonia, Derby and Stamford.

It is a high-tech vehicle that can deliver services anywhere, anytime. The Career Coach travels throughout the 20town workforce development area in southwestern Connecticut and to special events across the state. When people step aboard the American Job Center Career Coach, they are greeted by expert staff and seated at one of 10 computer workstations.

VIDAL/WETTENSTEIN PARTNERS AWARDED

EIGHT DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS AT INSPIRE Allison Milano-Stolar, CEO of Inspire Train Fit, has announced the spring offerings of her health and wellness business and the Holistic & Integrative Wellness Center in Darien.

Milano-Stolar has more than 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industry and is available for private bookings at a home or office, as well as at the Holistic & Integrative Wellness Center, which is located in Noroton Heights at 300 Heights Road in Palmer’s Shopping Center.

For more information about Inspire Train Fit and the Holistic & Integrative Wellness Center, contact Milano-Stolar at allison@inspiretrainfit.com.

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NATIONAL AWARD TO GREENWICH HOSPITAL The Workplace Partnership for Life (WPFL) Gold Award from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for building awareness of the critical need for organ, eye and tissue donation registration was awarded to Greenwich Hospital.

“This awareness is vital because more than 124,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant,” said Diane Kelly, chief operating officer for Greenwich Hospital. “We are proud to be part of this national effort.”

The WPFL Hospital Campaign enlists hospitals and hospital associations nationwide to coordinate donor awareness and registry enrollment activities with staff, patients and the community by cultivating a culture that educates and registers potential donors.

“Greenwich Hospital received the gold national level recognition for exceeding the goals of the campaign,” said Angelo Bernardo, hospital relations coordinator for New England Donor Services. Bernardo recently presented the award at Greenwich Hospital along with Karen Carlson, a donor recipient of a bilateral lung transplant.

MONECO ADVISORS ADDS ANOTHER VETERAN TO TEAM Veteran advisor Scott Flynn has joined the team of financial planners at Moneco Advisors LLC in Fairfield. Flynn comes to Moneco from another LPL-aligned firm where he had been since 2004. As a financial advisor, he will work with clients to help them pursue their goals in retirement, education funding and comprehensive financial planning. He will also support small and midsize businesses, assisting them with the selection and management of their company-sponsored retirement plans.

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Bruce Wettenstein and Randy Vidal

Bruce Wettenstein and Randy Vidal, partners in Vidal/Wettenstein LLC in Westport, have received the 2018 Power Broker Awards for their work in the industrial sector. This honor is awarded on the basis of overall volume of transactions as compared to other brokers in the market. Vidal

has more than 50 years of experience and has owned the brokerage since 1968. He has been responsible for large transactions in Fairfield County, including industrial, retail and office spaces.

Wettenstein’s career spans over 40 years, including 20 years as a partner at

Vidal/Wettenstein. He has facilitated more than $350 million in commercial transactions and was elected president of the Connecticut chapter of SIOR professionals in 2012. This will be his eighth time winning the award — the sixth for the firm as a whole.

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Facts & Figures BUILDING PERMITS Commercial Associated Construction Co., Norwalk, contractor for Norwalk Hospital Association. Repair interior residential room at 40 Prospect St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $26,000. Filed March 27.

City of Danbury, contractor for the city of Danbury. Construct accessory building at 100 Aunt Hack Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,600. Filed March 27.

Codfish Hill Construction LLC, Danbury, contractor for Scott and David Benincasa.

Construct an open-car garage at 58 Holley St., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $16,500. Filed March 18.

Danjor LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Danjor LLC. Alter space for new tenant at 115 New Canaan Ave., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed March 25.

Norwalk Seaport Associates Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Norwalk Seaport Association Inc. Construct roof at 0 Sheffield Island, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $100,000.

Filed March 26.

Rocks Road Associates LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Rocks Road Associates LLC. Build new two-family residence at 10 Lower Rocks Lane, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $300,000.

Filed March 26.

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Rudolf, Steven B., Norwalk, contractor for Muller Park Realty Company LLC. Perform replacement alterations at social club, Crossfire, 30 Muller Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,500. Filed March 27.

Advanced Window Systems LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Rosita Hill Richard.

Remove roof and install new roof at 5 New St, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $14,985. Filed March 21

Driftwood Properties LLC, Danbury, contractor for Driftwood Properties LLC. Rebuild enclosed porch at 5 Lake Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed March 19.

Pemlu LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Pemlu LLC. Renovate interior and remove walls to enlarge first floor at 3 Brook Hill Lane, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed March 28.

Sig Con Associates LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Metropolitan Realty Associates LLC. Construct a foundation for a 40-unit multifamily development at 1 Bates Court, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $350,825. Filed March 27.

All Seasons Connecticut Properties LLC, Danbury, contractor for All Seasons Connecticut Properties LLC. Perform alterations on roofing, siding, windows and doors at 12 E. Pearl St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000.

Filed March 26.

Fratturo, Brian, Norwalk, contractor for Glenn Kaye.

Remove interior wall at 8 Filbert Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $3,900. Filed March 28.

Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Williams Laurie Jr. Replace windows and insulate attic at 10 Austin St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,770.

Filed March 29.

St. Mary’s RC Church Corp., Norwalk, contractor for St. Mary’s RC Church Corp. Perform alterations inside mercantile building at 666 West Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed March 27.

Bigler, Amos T. and Monika Pernell, Norwalk, contractor for Amos T. Bigler. Finish basement for playroom at 53 Ledgewood Drive, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000.

Filed March 28.

Stephen C Gidley Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Winnipauk Village. Replace roof on buildings A, B, C, I, J, K at 71 Aiken St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $253,700. Filed March 22.

Building Concepts Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Jose Eduardo Gabriel and Sonia D. Gabriel. Construct a sun room at 30 Possum Circle, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $44,000. Filed March 22.

Timpany Norwalk Real Estate LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Timpany Norwalk Real Estate LLC. Change for “New Cleopatra Nail Salon” at 420 Westport Ave., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed March 28.

C&D Contractors LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Douglas E. Hempstead and Donna L. Hempstead. Strip and re-roof 116 Chestnut Hill Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $8,800.

Filed March 26.

TR Sono Partners LLC, Norwalk, contractor for TR Sono Partners LLC. Perform replacement alterations at Leven Beauty Retail, 68A Washington St., Unit W101, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed March 28.

Wall Street Opportunity Fund LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Wall Street Opportunity Fund LLC. Alter space for a new tenant at 97 Wall St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed March 28.

Residential 1st Light Energy Inc., Danbury, contractor for Sergio Cavalcanti. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 117 Boulevard Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $35,657. Filed March 28.

Gaitan, Joseph, Norwalk, contractor for Mary Toss. Reconnect second floor for storage at 7 Triangle St., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $22,000.

Filed March 28.

House Solutions CC LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Mark R. Smith. Renovate single-family residence basement, full bath and family room, at 7 Outer Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $95,000. Filed March 21.

Ignieri, John and Christine Tierney, Norwalk, contractor for John Ignieri. Relocate front door, expand kitchen, new roof, siding and replace windows at 9 Ridgewood Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $175,000. Filed March 27.

Carson Entzminger, Norwalk, contractor for Isco Davis. Repair and rebuild deck at 9 Cross St., Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed March 22.

Johnson, Babu and Jaya Johnson, Danbury, contractor for Babu Johnson and Jaya Johnson. Convert half bath to full bath at 17 Judith Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed March 12.

DeMello, Samuel F., Danbury, contractor for Jan M. Foote and Robert A. Foote.

Repair cement blocks on garage walls at 8 Mountain Ville Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed March 18.

Juanacio, Juan Patricio, Danbury, contractor for Juan Patricio Juanacio. Build shed at 47 Highland Ave., Danbury.

Estimated cost: $1,200. Filed March 6.

DiGiorgio Roofing and Siding, Danbury, contractor for Jan M. Foote and Robert A. Foote. Renovate siding at 8 Mountain Ville Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $5,799.

Filed March 18.

DJ Modular Homes LLC, Danbury, contractor for Anthony E. Carpanzano and Yu Sume. Add garage, family room and office at 81 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $90,000. Filed March 5.

Juanacio, Juan Patricio, Danbury, contractor for Juan Patricio Juanacio. Construct three bedrooms, two baths and car garage at 47 Highland Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $21,000. Filed March 6.

Los Yuri, Norwalk, contractor for Los Yuri. Finish attic space at 179 W. Norwalk Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed March 27.

Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Under Hill. Replace windows at 29 Lincoln Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $29,168. Filed March 29.

Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Vladimir Francine Petrov. Replace windows at 1 W. Rocks Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,656. Filed March 29.

Power Home Remodeling Group LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Dell Isola Mark.

Strip and re-roof and install windows at 201 Wolf Pit Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $58,364. Filed March 29.

Real Estate LLC RPL, Norwalk, contractor for Real Estate LLC RPL. Build foundation at 38 Juhasz Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed March 28.

Smith Brothers Construction Inc, Danbury, contractor for Donald M. Logan. Convert garage into family room at 108A Clapboard Ridge Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed March 19.

Spash, Robert H., Danbury, contractor for Robert H. Spash. Finish basement at 1403 Sienna Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $25,000.

Filed March 27.

Thomas, Joseph F., Norwalk, contractor for Joseph F. Thomas. Renovate single-family residence and add a three-car garage and bathroom at 14 Ox Yoke Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $125,000. Filed March 22.

Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 701 Westchester Ave, Suite 100 J White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3699

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Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Oscar L. Chacua and Flor A. Chacua. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 2 Bartlett Manor, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $17,050. Filed March 29.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Norwalk, contractor for Christine C. Zdarsky. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 54 Creeping Hemlock Drive, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $42,262. Filed March 29.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Marion Morris and Kathy Derham. Install roof-mounted solar panels at 1 Sunset Drive, Danbury.

Estimated cost: $9,009. Filed March 21.

Vivint Solar Developer LLC, Danbury, contractor for Juan Carlos Cabrera Vicuna.

Install roof-mounted solar panels at 20 Beech St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,395.

Filed March 21 Zakhar, Theodore, Norwalk, contractor for Martin L. Tagliaferro. Remove old roof and install new roof at 5 Lookout Road, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $4,250. Filed March 25.

Zakhar, Theodore, Norwalk, contractor for Irene B. Hastings. Remove old roof and install new roof 13 Cider Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $8,855. Filed March 29.

COURT CASES Bridgeport Superior Court Duffy, Donna M., et al, Monroe. Filed by Hills Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Zeldes Needle & Cooper, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff provides assessment of common charges for the condominium. The defendants have failed to make payments. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of their lien, possession of the premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV19-6083455-S. Filed Feb. 20.

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Facts & Figures Henderson, Betty A., Stratford. Filed by PennyMac Loan Services LLC, Westlake Village, California. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford.

Action: The plaintiff is the holder of the defendant’s note. The defendant defaulted on the terms of the agreement and has failed to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage, possession of the mortgage premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FBT-CV-19-6082410-S. Filed Jan. 14.

Latella, Donald, et al, Easton. Filed by The United Illuminating Co., New Haven. Plaintiff’s attorney: Nair & Levin Law Offices of PC, Bloomfield. Action: The plaintiff provided electric utility to the defendants who have failed to pay for the service despite being billed on a monthly basis. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FBT-CV-196082485-S. Filed Jan. 16.

McCarthy, Christopher, et al, Monroe. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff is the holder of the defendants’ note. The defendants defaulted on the terms of the agreement and have failed to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage, possession of the mortgage premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FBT-CV-19-6083144-S. Filed Feb. 11.

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Narang, Bimla S., et al, Westport. Filed by Finance of America Reverse LLC, Houston, Texas. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff was assigned the defendants’ mortgage.

The defendants defaulted on the terms of the agreement and have failed to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff claims foreclosure of the mortgage, possession of the mortgage premises, monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FBT-CV-19-6082952-S. Filed Feb. 4.

Danbury Superior Court Athans, David, Sandy Hook.

Filed by American Irrigation Systems Inc., Ridgefield.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Carreira and Wojciechowski LLC, New Preston. Action: The plaintiff provided services to the defendant for installing and servicing irrigation systems and provided all necessary materials, labor and supplies for the systems. The defendant owed the plaintiff and neglected to pay for the services despite being billed on a monthly basis. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV-196029953-S. Filed Jan. 29.

Baldelli, Gary, et al, Danbury. Filed by Alessandro Ferrari, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendants and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. DBD-CV19-6030428-S. Filed March 18.

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Bueno, Elvis, Danbury. Filed

by Yhonuel Cespedes, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030427-S. Filed March 18.

The Morganti Group Inc., et al, Danbury. Filed by Acproducts Inc., The Colony, Texas. Plaintiff’s attorney: Hassett & George PC, Simsbury. Action: The plaintiff entered into a subcontract agreement with the defendants and agreed to deliver and install cabinets and products at the defendants’ property. In order to secure payment, plaintiff filed a mechanic lien on the property.

Despite the demand, the defendants have failed to make payments. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030417-S. Filed March 15.

Then, Edgar, Danbury. Filed

by American Express National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Zwicker and Associates PC, Enfield.

Action: The plaintiff is a banking association. The defendant used a credit account issued by the plaintiff and agreed to make payments for goods and services. The defendant failed to make payments. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages and less than $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no.

DBD-CV-19-6030198-S. Filed Feb. 26.

Stamford Superior Court Backes, Kenneth, Stamford.

Filed by Jennifer Diaz, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Harris Harris & Schmid, Norwalk.

Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV19-6040107-S. Filed Feb. 19.

Firos, Paul, et al, Weston.

Filed by Louis Mastergeorge, Middletown. Plaintiff’s attorney: Kernan Scully & McDonald LLP, Waterbury. Action: The plaintiff was a business invitee to repair a generator on the defendants’ property. When plaintiff walked onto the back steps of the property, he slipped and fell causing him several injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV19-6039887-S. Filed Feb. 4.

Pasquino, Michael, et al, Stamford. Filed by Eduard Yuzvik, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lewis H Chimes, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff was crossing the street when he was struck by the defendants’ truck. The plaintiff sustained severe and painful injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no.

FST-CV-19-6039714-S. Filed Jan. 22.

Ulysses, Silotte, Stamford.

Filed by Elvia Rosa, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Wesley Mark Malowitz, Stamford.

Action: The plaintiff suffered a collision caused by the defendant and sustained severe and painful personal injuries.

The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. Case no. FST-CV19-6040443-S. Filed March 12.

Zolt, Tyler, et al, Stamford.

Filed by Lizalena Amado, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Skiber Michael E. Law Office, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff was lawfully on the premises of the defendants when she was bitten by the defendants’ dog causing her severe injuries. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate.

Case no. FST-CV-19-6040117-S. Filed Feb. 20.

DEEDS Commercial 799 Fairfield Beach Road LLC, Trumbull. Seller: 799 FBR LLC, North Haven. Property: 799 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $650,000. Filed April 9.

Aequity Holdings LLC, Bedford, New York. Seller: Larita Singleton, Bridgeport. Property: 415 Hollister Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $95,000. Filed March 11.

Aequity Holdings LLC, Bedford, New York. Seller: Francesca Hodges, Bridgeport. Property: 518 Queen St., Bridgeport. Amount: $130,000. Filed March 11.

DeLaurentis Developments LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Edmund C. Bassick and Rachel Alden Bassick, Fairfield.

Property: 75 Romanock Place, Fairfield. Amount: $370,000.

Filed April 9.

Fox Living Trust, Los Angeles, California. Seller: Alexander Dudley and Gaelle Dudley, Fairfield. Property: 328 Birch Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $1,625,000. Filed April 5.

Genesis Housing Group LLC, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 560 Norman St., Bridgeport. Amount: $17,858.

Filed April 10.

J&S LLC, Easton. Seller: Mary Paffumi, Fairfield. Property: 350 Canterbury Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $395,000.

Filed April 15.

Mirowski, Mark and Margaret Mirowski, Redding.

Seller: HSBC Bank USA, National Association, West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 148 Shoreham Village Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $473,200.

Filed April 5.

RowlanTides LLC, Fairfield. Seller: William R. Oakes, Fairfield. Property: 70 Thornhill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $500,000. Filed April 8.

Sterling House LLC, Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Seller: The Gladstone Family Living, Fairfield. Property: 740 Ellsworth St., Bridgeport.

Amount: $1,000,000. Filed April 12.

Wells Fargo Bank NA, Des Moines, Iowa. Seller: Christina M. Sforza and Marc R. Liphardt, Bridgeport. Property: Unit 107, North Main Townhouse Condominium, Bridgeport. Amount: $38,415.

Filed April 2.

Residential Adler, Florian, Bridgeport.

Seller: Frederick D. Paoletti, J., Bridgeport. Property: 4143 Orange St., Bridgeport.

Amount: $155,000. Filed March 28.

Bernardes, Wamberg D. and Catia R. Scott, Greenwich. Seller: William Voight, Fairfield. Property: 56 Beacon View Drive, Fairfield.

Amount: $450,000. Filed April 12.

Brown, Joyce, Bridgeport.

Seller: Joyce Brown, Bridgeport. Property: 69 Weber Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $1.

Filed March 21.

Cardoso Enterprises 1 LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Branch Banking and Trust Co., Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

Property: 653 Holly Dale Road, Fairfield. Amount: $405,100. Filed April 8.

Cody, Christopher F. and Renee M. Cody, Fairfield.

Seller: Mark C. Shannon, Fairfield. Property: 225 S. Pine Creek Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $660,000. Filed April 1.

Colpitts, Dennis J. and Alyse K. Colpitts, Fairfield.

Seller: Susan Lipka, Fairfield.

Property: 1478 Jennings Road, Fairfield. Amount: $512,000.

Filed April 15.

Cooke, Ray Albert, Norwalk. Seller: Robert Flay, New York, New York. Property: 251 Joan Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $700,000. Filed April 1.

Facts & Figures DeLuca, Katherine R., Bridgeport. Seller: Theodore Giambazi, Bridgeport. Property: Unit 85, Old Town Common, Bridgeport. Amount: $115,000. Filed March 25.

Holguin, Jerry, Bronx, New York. Seller: Elizabeth H. Keefe, Milford. Property: 185 Travis Drive, Bridgeport.

Amount: $252,000. Filed April 8.

Demshak, Kevin P. and Judith Ann Demshak, Fairfield. Seller: Elena Watras, Farmington. Property: 155 St., Unit 3M, Bridgeport. Amount: $267,000 Filed April 9.

Hrostek, Lucille, Oxford.

Seller: Ashley A. McEvoy, Seymour. Property: 202 Alsace St., Unit 41, Bridgeport.

Amount: $30,500. Filed April 2.

Deutsch, Adam L. and Amy R. Deutsch, Fairfield.

Seller: George I. Saulnier Jr. and Nano S. Saulnier, Fairfield. Property: 118 Euclid Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $515,000.

Filed April 12.

Kennedy, Kevin, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: MTAG Cust for Empire VII CT Portfolio LLC, New York, New York.

Property: 3715 Main St., Unit 204, Bridgeport. Amount: $26,416. Filed April 3.

Donnelly, Elizabeth and Eric Donnelly, Bridgeport.

Seller: Bonnie M. Piskolti, Greenwood, South Carolina.

Property: 108 Rowsley St., Unit 3, Bridgeport. Amount: $39,750. Filed March 15.

Kurowski, Patricia K., et al, Bridgeport. Seller: U.S. Bank, National Association, Westport. Property: 263 Brooks St., Bridgeport.

Amount: $40,000. Filed April 3.

Ebrahim, Amed and Afaf Azalai, Fairfield. Seller: Patricia A. Ashley, Fairfield.

Property: 51 Gray rock Road, Fairfield. Amount: $207,000, Filed April 1.

Edwards, Nigel, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Mid First Bank, Bridgeport. Property: 127-129 Dupont Place, Bridgeport. Amount: $125,500. Filed March 28.

Faford, Christopher W. and Marissa Faford, Trumbull. Seller: W. David McElroy and Deborah J. McElroy. Fairfield. Property: 535 Westport Turnpike, Fairfield. Amount: $690,000. Filed April 2.

Leach, Christopher Mark and Michelle Anna Watch, Stamford. Seller: Timothy S. Nims and Heather M. Nims, Fairfield. Property: 118 Lucille St., Fairfield. Amount: $675,000. Filed April 1.

McQueen, Demetrius, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC, Prospect. Property: 368 Remington St., Bridgeport.

Amount: $38,441. Filed April 22.

Ortiz, Jacob H., et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Water Pollution Control Authority, Bridgeport. Property: 591 Newfield Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $21,000. Filed March 6.

Fisher, Bradley and Stephanie Shore Fisher, Fairfield.

Seller: John C. Shea and Laura M. Shea, Fairfield. Property: 568 Wilson St., Fairfield.

Amount: $540,000. Filed April 3.

Pall, Bertalan, Monroe.

Seller: Steve Bejek, Trumbull.

Property: 469 Woodridge Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $350,000. Filed April 10.

Fox, Barry and Nancy Fox, Fairfield. Seller: Michael M. Sargent, Vermont. Property: 1640 and 1641 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $2,455,000. Filed April 15.

Pucci, Mark, Bridgeport.

Seller: Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 11 Summit Place, Bridgeport.

Amount: $12,478. Filed March 26.

Frasco, Marianne M., Bridgeport. Seller: Gerald E. Cooney and Sean Cooney.

Bridgeport. Property: 155 Brewster St., Unit 5P, Bridgeport. Amount: $285,000.

Filed April 10.

Reilly, Peter M. and Kirstin E. Reilly, Stamford.

Seller: Eliano Teixeira, Fairfield. Property: 45 Crane St., Fairfield. Amount: $445,000.

Filed April 12.

Rowe, Glenda, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 276 Seaview Ave., Bridgeport.

Amount: $40,700. Filed April 12.

Sunshine, Jason and Heather Lipkin, Westport.

Seller: Daniel K. Murphy and Alexandra G. Murphy, Fairfield. Property: 81 Catherine Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $799,000. Filed April 8.

Russell, Linda, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: CIT Bank, N.A. Austin, Texas. Property: 406-410 Gregory St., Bridgeport. Amount: $190,000.

Filed March 11.

Thibodeau, Barbara, et al Bridgeport. Seller: U.S. Bank, National Association, West Haven. Property: 1492 North Ave., Unit 211, Bridgeport. Amount: $21,800. Filed March 6.

San Marco, Andrew, Fairfield. Seller: The Francis Group LLC, Beacon Falls.

Property: 893 Oldfield Road, Unit 2, Fairfield. Amount: $825,000. Filed April 5.

Sarlis, Tess and Paul Sarlis, Fairfield. Seller: Lorraine Tartaglia, Fairfield. Property: 245 Rage Road, Southport.

Amount: $1,050,000. Filed April 4.

Savader, Jason P. and Jennifer D. Savader, Stratford.

Seller: Josef Toth, et al, Trumbull. Property: 160 Warde Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $165,000. Filed April 8.

Scinto, Ronald L. and Timothy K. Finley, Bridgeport.

Seller: Nicholas D. Mainiero, Madison. Property: 199 Hilltop Road, Bridgeport.

Amount: $295,000. Filed March 28.

Shapiro, Marissa and Brandon Shapiro, Rye Brook, New York. Seller: Timothy P. Tracy and Hilary L. Tracy, Fairfield. Property: 1817 Mill Plain Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $621,000. Filed April 3.

Silvestri, Peter and Bailey Cardinal, Southport. Seller: Brian Tiriolo and Vanessa Funicella, Fairfield. Property: 436 Lenox Road, Fairfield.

Amount: $387,000. Filed April 12.

Simmons, Svetlana, Fairfield. Seller: Alfonso Cammarota Jr., Fairfield. Property: 1000 Knapp’s Highway, Unit 30, Fairfield. Amount: $183,000. Filed April 8.

Stewart, Renae, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Lake Zurich, Illinois. Property: 14 Rita Ave., Bridgeport.

Amount: $209,713. Filed April 18.

Tomaselli, Nicholas, Norwalk. Seller: Edith Marfia, Fairfield. Property: Lot 4, Homeland Garden Plots, Fairfield. Amount: $325,000.

Filed April 1.

Ung, Bryan, Fairfield. Seller: Joseph Harayda and Kristin Gallant, Fairfield. Property: 1183 Marlborough Terrace, Fairfield. Amount: $380,000.

Filed April 15.

White, John D. and Paulette White, Fairfield. Seller: Howard B. Stadler, Fairfield.

Property: 130 Handford Drive Fairfield. Amount: $513,500.

Filed April 2.

Whitman, Evan R. and Allison Whitman, Fairfield.

Seller: Adam L. Deutsch and Amy R. Deutsch, Fairfield.

Property: Lot 1, New Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield.

Amount: $635,000. Filed April 11.

Yamada, Norio, Bridgeport.

Seller: David E. Schneider Jr., Staatsburg, New York. Property: Unit 98, Seaside Village Homes. Bridgeport. Amount: $39,000. Filed March 12.

Young, Frederick, et al, Bridgeport. Seller: CIT Bank NA, Austin, Texas. Property: 679-681 Shelton St., Bridgeport. Amount: $86,000. Filed April 2.

FORECLOSURES Galarza, Rafael, et al, Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank N., Fort Mill, South Carolina. Property: 75 Overland Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 4.

Legend, Marc, et al, Creditor: U.S. Bank Trust NA, San Diego, California. Property: 240 Red Oak Lane, Unit 2-240, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 1.

Lugo, Henry, et al, Creditor: HSBC USA, NA, Lake Zurich, Illinois. Property: 695 Iranistan Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 6.

Pinto, Jose E., et al, Creditor: Navy Federal Credit Union, Merrifield, Virginia. Property: 44 Wing St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 4.

Rhinvil, Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank N., Coppell, Texas.

Property: 677-679 William St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default.

Filed Feb. 1.

Soos, Judith D., Creditor: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 455 Westfield St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Feb. 5.

JUDGMENTS Aponte, William, Norwalk. $10,651, in favor of Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, North Dakota, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York. Property: 65 Lexington Ave., Norwalk.

Filed April 2.

Colcone, Frank, Norwalk. $4,973, in favor of Unifund Corp., Westbrook, by Calistro & Airone LLC, Westbrook.

Property: 20 Edgewood St., Norwalk. Filed March 22.

Disraeli, Ari S., Norwalk. $6,570, in favor of River Watch Condominium Association Inc., Norwalk, by Ellen P. Sentz, Norwalk. Property: 71 Osborne Ave., Norwalk. Filed April 2.

Forrester, Ridelle M., Norwalk. $4,330, in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 30 Avenue C, Norwalk. Filed March 18.

Gardella, James R., et al, Norwalk. $58,054, in favor of UB Dockside LLC, Greenwich, by Noble F. Allen, Hartford. Property: 5 Spar Road, Norwalk. Filed April 18.

Giordano, Deborah, Norwalk. $11,731, in favor of The Connecticut Light and Power Co., Berlin, by AGS Law, Waterbury. Property: 33 Dairy Farm Road, Norwalk. Filed March 15.

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Lazaridis, Zinovia, Norwalk. $12,254, in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina, by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York. Property: 29 Forbell Drive, Norwalk. Filed April 3.

Louis, Rignald J., Norwalk. $747, in favor of Standar Oil of Connecticut Inc., Bridgeport,

by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 2 Bridge St., Norwalk. Filed March 25.

Manda Valli, Mallikharjuna Rao, Norwalk. $2,753, in favor of Bank of America NA, Charlotte, North Carolina,

by Rubin & Rothman LLC, Islandia, New York. Property: 25 Sniffen St., Norwalk. Filed April 3.

Paniccia, Johanna, Norwalk. $12,526, in favor of Norwalk Hospital Association, Norwalk, by Lovejoy and Rimer PC, Norwalk. Property: 10 Deerfield St., Norwalk.

Filed April 2.

Ruhnke, John L., et al, Norwalk. $1,590, in favor of Standard Oil of Connecticut Inc, Bridgeport, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 1 Thistle Road, Norwalk.

Filed March 11.

Wood, Frances M., Norwalk. $11,594, in favor of American Express Centurion Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah by Zwicker & Associates PC, Enfield. Property: 70 Shorefront Park, Norwalk. Filed March 22.

LIENS Federal Tax Liens Filed 345 Ely LLC and Sono Court Associates LLC, 345 Ely Ave., Norwalk. $351,169, civil proceeding tax. Filed Feb. 21.

Carrara, Debbie, 2085 Madison Ave., Bridgeport. $3,509, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 21.

Chambers, Rebecca, 277 Willow St., Bridgeport. $10,823, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 27.

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Facts & Figures Chappell, Janice D., 43 Madison Ave., Bridgeport. $15,259, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 28.

Convertino, Joseph P., P.O. Box 5810, Bridgeport. $66,794, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 5.

Dreiding, Sylvain B., 115 Fresh Meadow Drive, Trumbull. $141,685, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 27.

Drew, Anthony and Dawn Drew, 34 Charron St., Bridgeport. $28,570, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Fenton, Dean E., 3300 Park Ave., Unit 30, Bridgeport. $46,243, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 21.

Grace, Gary, 78 Alanson Road, Bridgeport. $14,432, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 6.

Jackson, Barry L., P.O. Box 55064, Bridgeport. $34,543, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Lawrence, Donovan L., 44 Bronx Ave., Bridgeport. $155,720, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 6.

McCormick, Ernest and Barbara McCormick, 1315 Chopsey Hill Road, Bridgeport. $2,749, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 6.

Nguyen, Kiet A., 92 Herkimer St., Bridgeport. $15,299, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 5.

Patel, Bharat, 2 West Ave., Unit 10, Norwalk. $91,751, civil proceeding tax. Filed Feb. 25.

Pena, Joseph and Carmen Pena, 11 Fitch St., Norwalk. $9,697, civil proceeding tax.

Filed Feb. 25.

Perez-Semidey, Manuel and Mayra Ivelis, 264 Griffin Ave., Bridgeport. $21,970, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 28.

Peterson, Thomas E., 295 Amsterdam Ave., Bridgeport. $33,187, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 5.

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Santo, Frank J. and The Eagle Leasing Co., 68 Strawberry Hill Ave., Norwalk. $3,587, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 28.

Vieux, Jean R. and Ruth Dorvelus, 727 Huntington Turnpike, Bridgeport. $16,555, civil proceeding tax.

Filed March 28.

Wilson, Samuel N. and Teresa Wilson, 30 Folino Drive, Bridgeport. $22,736, civil proceeding tax. Filed March 21.

LIS PENDENS Aguilar, Christian, et al, Norwalk. Filed by O’Connell, Atmore & Morris LLC, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 12 Richelieu St., Norwalk.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage from The Bank of New York Mellon.

Filed March 26.

Degani, Mario L., Stamford.

Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for M&T Bank. Property: 257 Four Brooks Road, Stamford. Action: foreclosure defendant’s mortgage. Filed Feb. 5 Disraelly, Ari S., et al, Norwalk. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Property: 71 Osborne Ave., Unit A3, Norwalk. Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage fromDeursche Bank Trust Company Americas. Filed April 12.

Div Dunham 35 LLC, Norwalk. Filed by Cohn Birnbaum & Shea PC, Hartford, for 200 Connecticut LLC. Property: 200 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk. Action: foreclose defendant’s mortgage.

Filed April 23 Felix, Harlise, et al, Norwalk. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for Wilmington Trust National Association. Property: Lots 183 and 184, Map No.217, Norwalk. Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage from Wilmington Trust National Association. Filed April 9.

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Gonzalez, Jesus, Norwalk.

Filed by the Law Offices of Debra B. Marino LLC, Orange, for Elaine DeCarlo-Gonzalez.

Property: 2 Stonecrop Road South, Norwalk. Action: dissolution of marriage and other relief. Filed April 1.

Harris, Jason and Joseph Pacarelli, Norwalk. Filed by Glass & Braus LLC, Fairfield, for Wei Mortgage LLC. Property: 1 Burr Place, Norwalk.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 1.

Kennedy, Robert D., et al, Stamford. Filed by Bendett & McHugh PC, Farmington, for M&T Bank. Property: 54 Butternut Road, Stamford.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage from M&T Bank. Filed Jan. 28.

Kenny, Domenica, et al, Stamford. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC. Property: 253 Loveland Road, Stamford. Action: inter alia foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed Feb. 4.

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., Norwalk.

Filed by Frankel & Berg, Norwalk, for Village Square at Park Avenue Condominium Association Inc. Property: 97-99 Park Ave., Unit 54, Danbury Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 12.

Massey, Mary E., et al, Norwalk. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. Property: 100 San Vicenzo Place, Unit 46, Norwalk. Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed March 26.

Melgar, Juana M., Norwalk.

Filed by Marinosci Law Group PC, Warwick, Rhode Island, for U.S. Bank National Association. Property: Lots 3 and 4, Map No.242, Norwalk.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 4.

Murphy, Antoinette, et al, Norwalk. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for Bank of America NA. Property: 5 College St., Norwalk.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 9.

Pruszko, Lester S., et al, Norwalk. Filed by O’Connell, Attmore & Morris LLC, Hartford, for Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Property: 25 Grand St., Unit 136, Norwalk.

Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 12.

Warren, James E., et al, Norwalk. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 9 Sable St., Norwalk. Action: foreclosure of defendant’s mortgage. Filed April 12.

LEASES Tarpon Towers II LLC,

by Brett Buggeln. Landlord: MDL Realty LLC, Rye Brook, New York. Property: 380 Horace St., Bridgeport. Term: 5 years, commenced Aug. 1, 2018. Filed March 6.

Verizon Wireless, by Beth Freimour. Landlord: Beardsley Plaza LLC, Bridgeport.

Property: 541 Broadridge Road, Bridgeport. Term: 5 years, commenced Aug. 7, 2018. Filed March 4.

MORTGAGES Arteaga, Victor and Lilia Serrano, Stamford, by Azim Chairet Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio.

Property: 223 Culloden, Stamford. Amount: $299,400.

Filed Feb. 5.

Banks, Jason and Nicole Pancaldo-Banks, Stamford,

by Mark P. Vessicchio. Lender: Home Direct Mortgage, P.O. Box 35688, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Property: 42 Middlebury St., Stamford. Amount: $340,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Bisceglia, Christopher, Stamford, by Zena Dubas.

Lender: Chartered Bank, 2035 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 116 Woodside Green, Apartment 3A, Stamford. Amount: $138,750. Filed Feb. 5.

Boginski-Boll, Joseph S. and Lynda De Leon, Stamford, by Broke Cavaliero.

Lender: Mutual Savings Bank, 220 Main St., Danbury. Property: 154 Cold Spring Road, Unit 72, Stamford. Amount: $238,500. Filed Feb. 5.

Cognetta, Adam M., Stamford, by Anita Bartolini.

Lender: Bank of America NA, 100 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Property: 11 Haig Ave., Stamford. Amount: $150,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Rosner, Blanche A. and Stanley Rosner, Stamford,

by Michael Cozetti. Lender: Mark F. Katz, 196 North St., Stamford. Property: 415 Sawmill Road, Stamford. Amount: $32,350. Filed Feb. 5.

Conetta, Lynn J., Stamford, by Robert E. Murray Jr. Lender: First Republic Bank, 111 Pine St., San Francisco, California. Property: 41 Martin St., Stamford. Amount: $200,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Schaefer, Kathleen and Robert Schaefer, Stamford,

by Steven J. Baier. Lender: William Raveis Mortgage LLC, 7 Trap Falls Road, Shelton. Property: 44 Cerretta St., Unit 3B, Stamford. Amount: $337,250. Filed Feb. 4.

Genovese, David A. and Camilla A. Herrera, Stamford,

by Antonio Faretta. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 1111 Polaris Pkwy., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 18 Cascade Court, Stamford. Amount: $27,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Hagman, George and Moira Denham, Stamford, by Antonio Faretta. Lender: Sovereign Lending Group Incorporated, 3540 Howard Way, Costa Mesa, California. Property: 1912 Shippan Ave., Stamford. Amount: $588,000.

Filed Feb. 5.

Houston, Alexander M., et al, Stamford, by Besnike Krasniqi Lender: Citizens Bank NA, 1 Citizens Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island.

Property: 177 Old Logging Road, Stamford. Amount: $125,000. Filed Feb. 4.

Lama, Tsultim and Tezin Lama, Stamford, by M.L. Blumenthal. Lender: Quicken Loans Inc., 1050 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Property: 45 West Ave., Stamford.

Amount: $467,400. Filed Feb. 4.

Mazzitelli, Ines Cenatiempo and James Mazzitelli, Stamford, by Gregory LaDestro Lender: Amerisave Mortgage Corp., 3525 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, Georgia.

Property: 127 Greyrock Place, Apartment 1102, Stamford.

Amount: $341,100. Filed Feb. 5.

McTavish, Robert and Ximena McTavish, Stamford,

by Antonio Faretta. Lender: U.S. Bank National Association, 4801 Frederica St., Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 120 Dundee Road, Stamford.

Amount: $535,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Willis, Andrew and Lara Willis, Stamford, by Ann Madero. Lender: Neat Capital Inc., 2560 55 St., Boulder, Colorado. Property: 12 Walnut Ridge Laned, Stamford.

Amount: $416,000. Filed Feb. 4.

NEW BUSINESSES 360 Degrees Catering LLC, 79 Washington St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Adrian Vasquez Herrera. Filed March 27.

Alaia Day Care, 245 Wilson Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Rosa G. Dormes. Filed March 26.

Awakening Movement Ministries Inc., 346 Main Ave., Norwalk 06851, c/o Delores J. Gamble. Filed March 22.

Blue Star Painting & Services LLC, 11 Paradiso St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Hugo Alvarado. Filed March 25.

Ceja Lawn Maintenance LLC, 166 Fillow St. Norwalk 06851, c/o Jorge Ceja. Filed March 26.

Ceja Lawn Maintenance LLC, 166 Fillow St. Norwalk 06851, c/o Jorge Ceja. Filed March 26.

EG Painting Services, 13 Clinton Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Edgar F. Garcia-Marroquin. Filed March 26.

Gaze Garden, 10 Fourth St., Norwalk 06855, c/o Kelsey Brennan Payn. Filed March 26.

Green Jelly Inc., 111 Danbury Road, Wilton 06897, c/o Rayesh Ohri. Filed March 25.

Facts & Figures Growing Minds Family Daycare, 9 Silk St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Myra Navarro.

Filed March 26.

Triple M Productions, 554 Connecticut Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Marco Lima. Filed March 26.

Inspiration and More, 46 Pet Tom Road, Norwalk 06850, c/o Gina Davis. Filed March 27.

PATENTS

J&K Home Improvement, 29 Aiken St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Jose Oviedo Parra. Filed March 22.

JKA & Painting Plus, 52 Wolfpit Ave., Norwalk 06851, c/o Rodolfo Campos. Filed March 26.

K. C. Home Improvement LLC, 29 Aiken St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Katy Colmenares.

Filed March 22.

KTW Contracting, 37 Brownson Drive, Huntington 06484, c/o Ken Weldon. Filed March 25.

Miranda’s Cleaning Service, 36 Merwin St., Norwalk 06850, c/o Veronica Guadalupe Miranda Bahena. Filed March 29.

MK Hair Studio, 515 West Ave., Norwalk 06850, c/o Olga A. Zbarev. Filed March 25.

Potoo Financial, 40 Richards Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Fred Dimyan. Filed March 26.

Potoo Solutions, 40 Richards Ave., Norwalk 06854, c/o Fred Dimyan. Filed March 26.

R.D. Lametta Jr., 24 Katy Lane, Norwalk 06851, c/o Robert Dominic Lametta.

Filed March 26.

Ricky & D. Painting, 11 Paradiso St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Dimas M. Alvarado. Filed March 25.

Santos Contracting, 281 East Ave., Norwalk 06855, c/o Ludin Martinez. Filed March 22.

Tiffin Street Norwalk, 56 N. Main St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Mohinder Dugal. Filed March 29.

Adjustable dual-optic directional lamp assembly.

Patent no. 10,274,176 issued to Nancy R. Stathes, Hillsdale, New Jersey; Federico Collado Jr., Westwood, New Jersey; Michael S. Swern, Boonton, New Jersey. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Apparatus and method for overcoating a rendered print. Patent no.

10,277,756 issued to James J. Spence, Honeoye Falls, New York; Wayne A. Buchar, Bloomfield, New York; Joseph F. Casey, Webster, New York.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Class 1 compliant lens assembly. Patent no. 10,274,181 issued to Jason Edward Duckworth, Simpsonville, South Carolina. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Extension handle. Patent no. D846,966 issued to James M. Buckley, New Hartford; Robert Camp, Bethany; Joseph K. Patterson, Monroe.

Assigned to Unger Marketing International LLC, Bridgeport.

Hair brush. Patent no.

D846,885 issued to Mary Khoun, Stamford. Assigned to Conair Corp., Stamford.

LED luminaire with integrated battery backup.

Patent no. 10,274,150 issued to James Shaw, Plano, Texas. Assigned to Revolution Lighting Technologies Inc., Stamford.

Luminaire with adjustable lamp modules. Patent no. 10,274,177 issued to Michael Neuer, Covina, California; Dean Dal Ponte, Glendale, California; Syed Raza, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Method and apparatus for denying a transaction detected to be initiated outside of a required application on an endpoint device.

Patent no. 10,275,812 issued to Bryan J. Roof, Newark, New York; Andrew Shih-Suen Yeh, Portland, Oregon; Howard A. Mizes, Pittsford, New York; Haitao Du, Webster, New York.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Modular electronic device and head unit for vehicles.

Patent no. 10,278,313 issued to David Jia, Houston, Texas; Valod Noshadi, Ettlingen, Germany; Homero Garza, Wixom, Michigan; Alex Tzinares, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

Performance high-bay luminaire. Patent no. D847,399 issued to Taylor Jenson, Taylors, South Carolina; Thomas Holscher, Simpsonville, South Carolina; Joseph Engle, Taylors, South Carolina. Assigned to Hubbell Inc., Shelton.

Photochromatic composition for 3D printing. Patent no. 10,273,402 issued to Jin Wu, Pittsford, New York. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Sharing and collaboration of search results in a travel search engine. Patent no. 10,275,527 issued to Paul M. English, Arlington, Massachusetts; Derek M. Young, Wayland, Massachusetts; Jeff A. Rago, Lexington, Massachusetts; Lincoln D. Jackson, Newburyport, Massachusetts; Paul D. Schwenk, Stow, Massachusetts; Giorgos C. Zacharia, Winchester, Massachusetts.

Assigned to Kayak Software Corp., Stamford.

Social mode sharing of music in a listening room of a vehicle. Patent no. 10,275,211 issued to Christopher Michael Trestain, Livonia, Michigan.

Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford.

System and method for supporting secure document tags for use in traditionally unsupported workflows.

Patent no. 10,275,605 issued to Adam Elhassen, Victor, New York; Jason Slack, Rochester, New York. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

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