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You can guess that all three are located in Hartford, the Insurance Capital of the World has the kind of investors that could fund billion dollar builds

Day Pitney, a storied law firm with Hartford roots that has grown into one of the largest firms in the region, has named a Connecticut native as its new managing partner. Gregory A. Hayes, who has spent 35 years as an attorney with Day Pitney and its predecessor, became the firm’s managing partner on April 2. In this role, he oversees all 13 offices along the East Coast, from Boston to Miami.

As available office space for lease soars, the MetroHartford Alliance has formed a group to develop viable strategies to use excess space.

Connecticut Office of the Arts announced its 2022 class of Connecticut Arts Heroes, an annual honor offered to people statewide who contribute to the arts in ways that affect their communities in the present and into the future.

The Greater Hartford office market continued to “block and tackle” over the past 20 months, with landlords and tenants adapting to the changing tides of COVID-19. By the second quarter 2020 shutdown, landlords and tenants pushed ahead and focused on business as usual. By year-end 2020, tenants began to explore work-from-home options and reevaluate office space needs. Landlords reacted by offering attractive incentives to tenants — improvement packages, rent concessions and/or flexible leas...

WTIC-AM morning talk show host Ray Dunaway will retire after 29 years

Law firm Updike, Kelly & Spellacy is trading one downtown Hartford address for another. The firm, which has five offices throughout the state, is moving its headquarters from the current location at 100 Pearl St. into Goodwin Square, where it will occupy a slightly smaller space. Updike leases 25,000 square feet in its Pearl Street location but will lease 18,000 in its new home on the 20th floor at Goodwin Sqaure on Asylum Street. John Alissi, firm president, said Updike’s current lease ex...

By Greg Bordonaro and Matt Pilon Hartford Business Journal polled a half-dozen large companies that collectively employ thousands of workers in the Capital City, asking them about their current remote work situations and plans to bring more workers back to the office in the months ahead. Here’s what they said: The Hartford, CVS Health/Aetna Many local employees of Hartford’s three major insurers — CVS-owned Aetna, Travelers Cos. and The Hartford — continue to work remotel...

White Dog Woodworking mixes old-fashioned skill with high-tech tools FacebookTwitterEmail 1of30 Tom Officer and his son, Andy Officer, own White Dog Woodworking at 59 Field St. in Torrington. The 20-year-old company moved into a warehouse space formerly occupied by a wind energy company several years ago, and have since expanded their operations to include state-of-the-art, digital equipment to create the wood pieces they use in numerous commercial and residential building projects in Connectic...

Hartford landlord Larry Gottesdiener, once one of the city’s most prolific property owners and boosters, is diversifying his portfolio with a new type of asset ‒ a WNBA franchise. The Atlanta Dream WNBA team announced Friday that Gottesdiener, founder and chairman of Northland Investment Corp., is the lead investor in a three-member group that purchased the women’s professional basketball club for an undisclosed price.  The ownership group also includes former UConn women’s basketball ...