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New Brooks Pharmacy opens on Franklin Avenue
Brooks Pharmacy opened its first store in Hartford early this month at 315 Franklin Avenue. The store currently employs 12 Hartford area residents and stands ready to hire and train additional bright and motivated people for its newest retail center.
Connecticut Public Broadcasting celebrates new headquarters
Connecticut Public Broadcasting is transforming an Asylum Avenue office building, vacant since 1997, into a $12 million new corporate headquarters. In addition to the planned renovation of an existing building, Connecticut Public Broadcasting is building in an adjacent lot a 5,600-square-foot building that will house two state-of-the-art television studio.
Building a boomtown, brick by brick
August 10, 2003 -
We have seen the future, and it just may be the view from David Nyberg's smashing high-rise apartment building overlooking Bushnell Park. From one end of the art deco-style former SNET headquarters at 55 Trumbull St., the greensward beckons with its glittering fountains, vintage carousel and gold-domed Capitol.
Adriaen’s ascent
Finally off the drawing board, Adriaen’s Landing rises - By Laurie Ledgard
Looking back to the enormous amount of underground utility and environmental work we had to do, it’s that much more of a thrill to stand right there on the floor of the new Convention Center exhibit hall,” Halloran said.
Tide is changing Downtown
By Diane Weaver Dunne, Hartford Business Journal
On a recent rainy Friday afternoon, McKinnon’s Irish Pub on Asylum Street was filled with patrons. Well past the lunch hour but still during “normal” workday hours, the eight-month old pub was brimming with people and their chatter.
 
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Coltsville lands high-tech tenant
Big win for Hartford as Insurity picks Sawtooth site for new HQ
By Carol Latter and Diane Weaver Dunne
Insurity President Jeffrey Glazer says his company, which develops software for insurance companies, has been “growing dramatically, year after year,” and has been on the lookout for a new corporate headquarters. The Sawtooth Building offers unique advantages, he says, “and we’re very excited about it.”

 
It’s Happening. In Hartford !
The new HEDC monthly newsletter is brimming with
the most current economic news of the city. Several issues now on-line!
 
Hartford among Forbes best places for business and careers- 09.29.03
 
Signs of life in downtown Hartford - 04.22.03
 
Hartford Named ‘4-Star City’ By National Magazine
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06.13.03
 

Neighborhood Leadership Training Program
Graduates Class Of 30 New Leaders
- 06.30.03


Students ‘Get Down To Business’ At Jumoke Academy - 06.10.03
 
News Archive
The Island Reaches Out To The City - 05.22.03
 
Weston Square celebrates city’s positive business climate - 05.22.03
 
Connecticut Declared Among Most Entrepreneurial States
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04.29.03
 
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