State Unveils Business Recruitment Video Promoting “Place People Love to Live”
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Millennials Under the Microscope As Businesses Look Ahead to Future Workforce, Growth, Leadership
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It seems rarely a month goes by that the Connecticut Business & Industry isn’t posting a new article to its website, publishing a story in its print magazine, or devoting a podcast, into one aspect or another about millennials in the workforce. The numbers explain why.
Read MoreSix Connecticut Professional Associations Team Up to Offer Leadership Academy
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If you’re of the opinion that there is strength in numbers, then a new collaboration that includes six of the state’s leading professional associations is already off to a strong start, even as the program launch is weeks away.
Read MoreSports Media, Spanish Media Degree Programs Unite University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut Public
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An innovative undergraduate program in Digital Media and Communication will launch in January 2020 at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in West Hartford, part of a pioneering collaboration with Connecticut Public. The undergraduate degree program offers students two distinct concentrations: Spanish Media and Communication or Sport Media and Communication.
Read MoreChange at the Helm of CT Technology Council is Latest in State's Economic Development Landscape
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Less than 10 months after being named as the new CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC), Derek Slap is moving on. It has been a year of new faces and changes in the state’s economic development line-up.
Read MoreStart-up Companies from Seven Countries Land in Hartford’s Urban Hub, Seek to Advance by Working with Local, National Industries
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Upward Labs, Connecticut’s first pilot lab for tech companies creating the future of smart buildings and aged care, is hosting an interactive demonstration of its inaugural cohort’s technologies on October 22, 2019. Upward Labs Demo Day: The Experience invites the public to participate in a live exhibition of the first cohort’s tech solutions in action, allowing attendees to experience a tech-enabled urban hub in which to live, work, and play.
Read MoreKey to CT Economy, Manufacturing Growth Strongest in Eastern CT
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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 MoreShoppers Alert: SoNo Collection Set to Debut in Norwalk
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It’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 MoreManufacturing Day to Feature Companies Across Connecticut
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With 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 MoreShort Term Rentals on the Increase; State, Local Regulatory Oversight Less Certain
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Are 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.
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