Hartford Business Journal

Hartford Business Journal focuses on bringing valuable business insights to our community. As a BUSINESS INFORMATION COMPANY, we foster an engaged audience and provide crucial intelligence to help businesses thrive. We collaborate with companies to enhance their brand visibility and create thought leadership opportunities. Our services reach OUR AUDIENCE through PRINT, ONLINE platforms, and IN-PERSON events. We are a reliable partner for establishing meaningful business connections.

Local

English

Newspaper

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#301766

United States

#63717

News and Media

#2600

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

As strike deadline looms, CT nursing homes face added costs

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Keith Phaneuf

Though Connecticut’s largest health care workers’ union has a May 19 strike deadline at 51 nursing homes, facilities already have incurred costs to prepare for a possible work stoppage, the head of a major industry association said Tuesday.
BioSig signs letter of intent to merge with Canada-based company

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky

BioSig Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles-based medical technology company with an office in Westport, announced Monday it has signed a letter of intent to “enter into a proposed merger or other business combination” with Streamex Exchange Corp. in an all-stock transaction. Streamex is a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
East Hartford considers moratorium on new gas stations

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Michael Puffer

With 17 fueling stations in town and one more under construction, East Hartford officials are considering a moratorium of at least 18 months on any new fueling locations. The proposal will be introduced to the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission during its meeting Wednesday.
Project to redevelop former Briarwood College property in Southington withdrawn

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | David Krechevsky

An application to develop age-restricted housing on the former Briarwood College campus in Southington was withdrawn last week. PGX Holdings LLC had filed an application in February with the Southington Planning and Zoning Commission seeking to change a zoning district boundary from R-40 to ARCHZ, an age-restricted cluster housing zone. The applicant intended to redevelop the 32.75-acre property at 2279 Mount Vernon Road into an over-55 residential community with 150 units.
Windsor Locks manufacturing research building targeted for conversion into 53 apartments

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Michael Puffer

The Hexagon Group is moving to transform a Windsor office and research building it recently purchased into a mix of 53 apartments and a small commercial space. A limited liability company affiliated with the West Hartford apartment developer acquired the vacant 52,416-square-foot building on 5.8 acres at 2 Elm St. from manufacturer Ahlstrom in a $650,000 deal recorded in the town’s land records on May 1. The Hexagon-affiliated LLC, on Thursday, submitted a special use permit request to the town.
Budget panel endorses raises for CT troopers

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Keith Phaneuf

The legislature’s Appropriations Committee endorsed a wage agreement with the state police union that would grant a 2.5% general wage hike and a step increase next fiscal year. The tentative deal negotiated by Gov. Ned Lamont, which heads to the General Assembly for final action, cleared the committee with strong bipartisan support, despite recent calls from Republican leaders to freeze wages for all state employees.
Great Wolf Lodge opens Mashantucket location

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Harriet Jones

Water park resort company Great Wolf Lodge has debuted its first Connecticut location, on the campus of Foxwoods Resort Casino. The $300 million development includes 549 hotel rooms, a 91,000-square-foot indoor water park and a 61,000-square-foot family entertainment center. It’s the company’s 23rd resort in North America and third in the Northeastern U.S.The resort has hired 500 employees, about half of them full time, and says employment will expand during the summer.
After nearly a half-century in Hartford, auto body shop takes big swing at growth under second-generation ownership with $5M expansion

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Michael Puffer

Zane Ruzzi paid many childhood visits to his father’s 3,000-square-foot auto body shop in Hartford, where longtime employees became like uncles. Growing up in Southington, he spent his high school summers working at Brookfield Auto Body, named after its address at 8 Brookfield St. He started with cleaning cars and sanding scuffed bumpers, then worked his way up to repairing dents and welding. After graduating high school, he went to work full time at the shop.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama to headline Connecticut Forum event this June

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Greg Bordonaro

To launch its new season and in partnership with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Connecticut Forum announced Tuesday that former U.S. President Barack Obama will be the featured speaker at the nonprofit’s event next month. The former Democratic president will take the stage in Hartford for “An Evening with President Barack Obama,” on Tuesday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m., at The Bushnell Performing Arts Center.
A legislative ‘rat’ returns to the CT Capitol, its origins still murky

1 week ago | hartfordbusiness.com | Mark Pazniokas

A bill that would make Connecticut’s generous state-employee health coverage available to political appointees on quasi-public authority boards arrived on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon with scant details about who sought the measure, who authored it or who might be an intended beneficiary. Sen.