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1 week ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
When it was enacted as part of state budget revisions in 2022, the JobsCT tax rebate program was hailed by businesses as a significant incentive program to create and retain jobs in the state. Eligibility guidelines for the program, however, make it difficult for small businesses to qualify.
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1 week ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Owners of two buildings that have been fully or partially vacant for some time sought approval Monday for special permits from the Bristol Zoning Commission, with the goal of revitalizing their properties.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Newington natives Erik and Carson Bloomquist have co-produced nine films and an Emmy-winning TV show, and nearly all of them were filmed in Connecticut. Erik, 32, is a producer, writer, director and actor, while Carson, 29, is a producer, writer and editor. Together, they founded Mainframe Pictures, an independent production company based in Hartford. Their most recent film, “Founders Day” — which Carson described as having a “‘Parks and Rec’ meets ‘Scream’” theme — was released in January 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Rallybio, a New Haven-based biotechnology firm, said Tuesday it has discontinued development of a therapy intended to prevent a rare immune disorder in fetuses and newborns. The firm’s RLYB212 program was intended to prevent fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, or FNAIT.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket said Thursday that the Season 23 winner of the Fox television reality show “Hell’s Kitchen” has been appointed executive chef of its Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen restaurant. Kyle Timpson, 29, of Dennis Township in New Jersey, will lead the restaurant’s kitchen beginning May 1, Foxwoods officials said. “I am humbled to start as executive chef at Hell’s Kitchen at Foxwoods,” Timpson said.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
State hospital regulators said Tuesday they had reached a settlement agreement with Nuvance Health and Northwell Health that will allow the two health systems to merge. Northwell Health, a 21-hospital New York-based nonprofit health system, and Nuvance Health — which owns Danbury, Norwalk, Sharon and New Milford hospitals in Connecticut and three hospitals in New York — first announced plans to merge in February last year and filed a Certificate of Need (CON) application last May.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
To say state Senate Minority Leader Stephen G. Harding Jr. has had an impressive start to his political career may be an understatement. In roughly a decade, Harding has gone from being a 27-year-old lawyer and a first-time candidate for the state House to leading the 11-member Republican caucus in the Senate — the top elected Republican in a legislature dominated by Democrats.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Intent on finding a way to hold hospital administrators accountable for the decisions they make, the state legislature is considering legislation to require hospital executives to be licensed. The proposal is included in Senate Bill 7. Sections 22-26 of the revised bill create a new licensure category for healthcare administrators, to be administered by the state Department of Public Health.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
The state legislature’s Planning and Development Committee on Monday is scheduled to discuss two housing-related bills, one that would prohibit municipalities from banning multifamily housing and another that would allow the development of so-called “light-touch” density housing. House Bill 7035 was originally raised and approved by the Housing Committee and received a favorable report from the Legislative Commissioner’s office before being referred to the Planning and Development Committee.
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2 weeks ago | 
hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky
Trinity Health Of New England (THONE) made it official Wednesday, formally announcing its partnership with California-based Vituity to manage its emergency and hospital medicine services for its three Connecticut hospitals. The announcement, though, brought an angry response from Sen.
