As a former chair of the New Haven Zoning Board of Appeals and the lawyer of choice for many local developments, Ben Trachten spends a lot of time thinking about how the city’s huge development boom is shaped by city regulations.
WinnCompanies expanded its Connecticut housing portfolio to nine properties totaling 1,595 units with last month’s acquisition of the 84-unit Bedford Gardens property in Hartford, where it’s set to launch a $19 million renovation program and convert the property into deed-restricted affordable housing.
Under co-founder Dan Garofolo, Newington-based Reno Properties Group is scouring the New England landscape on behalf of a theater chain looking for new locations for its food-and-beverage-infused concept.
Greg Konover leads the third generation at an iconic name in Connecticut’s real estate industry that’s making inroads in multifamily housing development and management throughout the Northeast.
Connecticut developers that build income-restricted housing and community facilities in low-income communities have a reliable partner in the BlueHub Loan fund run by Karen Kelleher.
When Lewis Brown proposed an affordable housing development in his hometown of West Hartford, local officials not only supported the project but gave his newly-founded Honeycomb Real Estate Partners firm $3 million to help finance it.
Coming from the world of government administration, Rafia Zahir-Uddin has helped JPMorgan Chase to provide $1 million in community investments in Connecticut in 2023 as its vice president for corporate responsibility.
Michael Belfonti made his first real estate deal as a junior in college, lining up investors to acquire a nearby roominghouse. Then, rather than working his way up through the ranks at a bigger real estate company, Belfonti chose to build his own development firm from scratch.
At the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, Juana Matias is on a mission to make sure knowledge about how to leverage federal affordable housing funds to build a career in housing development knows no color line.
Founded in 1976 to keep Connecticut’s construction industry competitive through continuing education, The Construction Institute at the University of Hartford is expanding its geographic reach under Nancy Greenwald to keep industry professionals up-to-date.
In her role since May as the new president and CEO of the state’s biotech trade organization BioCT, Jodie Gillon has recruited 50 new members and added the state’s most prominent life science developer, Carter Winstanley, to the group’s board of directors.
Commercial landlords and developers face difficult decisions about how to finance sustainable building projects to control energy costs and comply with decarbonization regulations.
John Dolan takes over leadership of brokerage Avison Young’s New England region at a critical moment in the region’s commercial real estate industry. Development is decreasing and major investment sales activity has been sluggish.
Four years after selling its online student loan refinancing business, DR Bank still works in the financial technology space. But for Chief Banking Officer John Barbalaco, the term “old fashioned” often comes to mind when describing the community bank’s approach to doing business.
Fred Clarke travels to Tokyo this weekend to see first-hand progress on construction of Japan’s tallest skyscraper, the latest in a series of landmark towers that his New Haven architecture firm has designed across the globe.
Multifamily landlords and institutional property owners seeking to cut their electricity bills have a new utility system option developed by a South Windsor company, Enviro Power.
Michael Deutsch brings his experience setting up DSTs to his new role as a senior vice president for Colliers’ Stamford office, along with his background in investment sales and leasing of office and industrial properties.
The Washington Trust Co. is known as the oldest community bank in the United States, but no woman has ever held the title of president and chief operating officer of the bank. Until Mary Noons takes the job this month, that is.
Avner Krohn has a formula for developing multifamily housing in Connecticut, seeking financial incentives from public sources to bring long-neglected parcels back to life in some of the state’s struggling former manufacturing centers.
At some point between May and July, the Federal Reserve plans to launch its real-time payments system FedNow, and EasCorp’s Cynthia Nelson wants credit unions to get ready.
