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It was scheduled and postponed, rescheduled and postponed. Now it is rescheduled again for Tuesday, 6 p.m. Wheeler Room A in front of City Council Chambers, 45 Lyon Terrace. The City Council’s Ordinance Committee will take up tighter regulation on sexually oriented establishments. OneBridgeport http://www.onebridgeport.com comprised of neighborhoods leaders and public officials has been pushing [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Development and Zoning'
Shall We Dance? Ordinance Committee Hearing On Adult Entertainment
May 21st, 2012 · No Comments · City Council, Development and Zoning, News and Events
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Dude, The Dodgers Left Brooklyn More Than 50 Years Ago!
May 14th, 2012 · 9 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning
Why does the Wall Street Journal cover Connecticut? Because there’s plenty of moolah here (and lots of other great stuff). Governor Dannel Malloy kicked off a campaign today to revive the tourism industry his predecessor Jodi Rell mothballed. If you believe perception is reality, suburbanites have perceptions about Bridgeport. Arrogant New Yorkers have perceptions about [...]
Banshee Heralds Blight Law
May 10th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events
Auden Grogins, the blonde banshee from Black Rock, is coming off a hectic legislative session, as well as the other seven members of the city’s Hartford delegation. Early in the week Grogins was a key member of delegation efforts to pass a bill to increase regulation of massage parlors, something particularly important to her constituents [...]
Tags: Auden Grogins·Dan Malloy
POKO Partners Added For Downtown Redevelopment
May 8th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Development and Zoning
From Mayor Finch: Mayor Bill Finch today announced that POKO Partners LLC, www.pokopartners.com will be the fourth proposed developer for the planned Downtown North Village District project, a six-acre parcel spanning six city blocks. An initial set of three developers were announced on April 17.
Tags: Bill Finch·Don Eversley
Banshee’s Legislative Stroke Regulates Massage Parlors–Governor To Sign Bill Into Law
May 8th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, Development and Zoning, News and Events
State Rep. Auden Grogins, the blonde banshee from Black Rock, is on a mission to regulate massage parlors and adult entertainment establishments that she says curtails quality of life and lowers property values of her constituency. She’s part of a coalition pushing to strengthen regulation both on a state and local level. Monday night the [...]
Is Steel Point Alive? State House Delegation Says Yes
May 3rd, 2012 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events
Does the Steel Point redevelopment area have a pulse? If it does the transformation of the East Side will look to a piece of legislation promoted in this news release by Bridgeport’s State House delegation: STEEL POINT PROJECT MAINTAINED UNDER BILL The Bridgeport House Legislative Delegation is pleased to announce House passage of a bill [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Auden Grogins·Charlie Stallworth·Don Clemons·Eze Santiago·Jack Hennessy·Morgan Kaolian
Bob Halstead, Ex Finch Roomie, No Longer Tending Community Gardens–Claims Retribution
May 18th, 2012 · 17 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Development and Zoning
Bob Halstead has been part of the city’s neighborhood fabric for decades. As founder of the city’s community garden program he was instrumental in transforming vacant eyesores into community pride points. He no longer serves in that capacity, a victim, he claims, of retribution for supporting Mayor Bill Finch’s mayoral opponents. Halstead shares this commentary [...]
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Tags: Andy Nunn·Bill Finch·Charlie Carroll·Chris Caruso·John Fabrizi·John Mandanici·Lenny Paoletta·Mary-Jane Foster·Michael Feeney·Pleasure Beach