Eastern Connecticut manufacturing jobs grew four times as fast as the rest of the state between 2015 and 2019, the Connecticut Business & Industry Association is reporting. Two-thirds of all statewide manufacturing job growth during that period took place in the region's 41 communities.
Read MoreIt’s big, splashy and opening its doors in Norwalk. The SoNo Collection mall is scheduled to open this week, two and a half years after construction began. It is owner Brookfield Properties biggest retail project in the Northeast since an expansion a decade ago of the Natick Collection mall in Massachusetts. The three-story project features 725,000 square feet of retail space, three atriums, a bowling alley and a rooftop-level garden.
Read MoreWith modern, advanced manufacturing producing 21st century job opportunities in Connecticut and elsewhere across the country, and the number of retirements across the manufacturing fields growing, the spotlight is increasingly on industries that aren’t what they used to be.
Read MoreAre short term rentals (STRs), better known by their popular brand names such as Airbnb, good news for municipalities or asking for trouble? A new report by the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments seeks to air some of the pros and cons, as the number of stays (and income to hosts) continue to grow rapidly.
Read MoreBeing a teenager and a CEO may be an unlikely combination, but it is not impossible. If you have any doubts, take a look at what’s happening at Connecticut-based Girls With Impact.
Read MoreIf you’re poised to start a new business, or have recently done so, Chelsea Groton Bank is making an offer you may not want to refuse. For the second time this year, the New London area financial institution is offering a free 13-week small business series for aspiring and established entrepreneurs, launching this week.
Read MoreDive In is a global movement in the insurance sector to support the development of inclusive workplace cultures. Its mission is to enable people to achieve their potential by raising awareness of the business case and promoting positive action for diversity in all its forms - the international event arrives in Hartford on September 26.
Read MorePredictions that the economic sky will soon be falling continue to abound in Connecticut and nationally, but a new hiring outlook suggests that the remainder of this year will bring a continued positive job market, in the state and nationwide.
Read MoreConnecticut Innovations, the state’s quasi-public business investment organization that invests in technology, health-care and manufacturing companies in the state, is joining the state’s innovators where they live.. in New Haven.
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