Last week, Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), which includes several of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants such as the Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Shake Shack, Eleven Madison Park and Blue Smoke, unveiled its newest addition, a Shake Shack restaurant in Westport, CT.  For those of you unfamiliar with Shake Shack, it’s [...]

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Newington, Conn. – Connecticut Electric Car, a newly formed division of Newington Electric Company and one of the first electric vehicle (EV) charging station installers in the State, has installed two General Electric Level II electric vehicle charging stations at Blue Back Square, West Hartford, CT.  The stations were unveiled last week at a ceremony. Connecticut Electric [...]

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New York, NY – Turner Construction Company, one of the largest construction management companies in the United States and with offices in Milford, CT, recently announced that the Yale University Health  Center in New Haven, CT is the 200th Turner project to have achieved LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the Green [...]

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Norwalk, Conn.  – According to an article posted on westfaironline.com, Campbell Soup Co. has revealed it is investing $30 million to create a 34,000-square-foot innovation center at the Norwalk headquarters of subsidiary Pepperidge Farm, which will also see extensive upgrades to its main offices at 595 Westport Ave. Designed by the Stamford office of Perkins [...]

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Last week, the Greenwich Times ran an article by Vinti Singh that outlined what lies ahead for Connecticut regarding restoring incentives for residential solar panel installations.  The article clearly lays out how state government will encourage homeowners in Connecticut to invest in solar energy, setting a goal of installing the energy panels on about 3,000 [...]

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New Haven, Conn. – According to smartmeter.com, Connecticut-based electric and natural gas delivery company UIL Holdings has chosen IBM to help secure its smart meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure from vulnerabilities and security attacks. The United Illuminating Company (UI), based in New Haven, CT is a wholly owned subsidiary of UIL and is upgrading its [...]

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