Zachary Vasile

Bloomfield’s AMC movie theater on Park Avenue in the Wintonberry Mall shopping center has shut down for good. AMC Theaters’ website says the cinema — formally known as AMC Classic Bloomfield 8 — is “permanently closed,” and directs would-be customers to the nearest open AMC location, in Plainville.

West Hartford poised for apartment, mixed-use building boom  Hartford Business Journal

Andrew Agwunobi is departing his dual roles as interim president of the University of Connecticut and CEO of UConn Health for a job with health insurance company Humana, university officials announced Friday morning.

U-Haul: CT 18th-most moved-to state  Hartford Business Journal

CT retroactively boosts earned income tax credit for '20  Hartford Business Journal

Pet products retailer Chewy proposes massive Windsor warehouse as part of $175M expansion  Hartford Business Journal

Millwright's named 'Restaurant of the Year' by CT Restaurant Association  Hartford Business Journal

Eversource names Sullivan head of CT operations  Hartford Business Journal

A Foxwoods-branded casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico opened its doors to the public last week in what operators called a “soft launch” ahead of a grand opening in Jan. 2022.

Raytheon Technologies Corp., the parent company of East Hartford-based jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney, will require all U.S. workers to be vaccinated, the aerospace and defense conglomerate announced this week. “In keeping with our ongoing commitment to maintain employee health and safety, Raythe…

The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, the oldest school of its kind in the country, is launching an online education platform intended to serve deaf and hard of hearing students. School officials said the new “Online Academy” will allow students from around the world to access more var…

New Britain tools and hardware manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker has agreed to acquire Excel Industries, a maker of turf equipment, for $375 million in cash. In a statement released Monday, Stanley officials said Excel’s shareholders approved the buyout in a recent vote.

Eversource Energy says it will resume service shutoffs for non-payment of bills on Sept. 15, when the state moratorium on disconnections — in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — expires. In a statement, Eversource officials emphasized the company will not disconnect residential cus…

A 189-unit apartment complex in Avon has sold for $29 million. According to town property records, the Avon Mill Apartments, located on Avonwood Road, changed hands on July 26. The buyer was BFS Property Group LLC, which is controlled by Yitzchok Rabinowitz of Waterbury, state records show. The se…

Embattled health care sharing ministry Sharity Ministries — formerly known as Trinity Healthshare Inc. — has filed for bankruptcy and ceased all operations, the state Department of Insurance announced Tuesday.

Following in the footsteps of employers such as Costco and Bank of America, CVS Health announced plans Wednesday to raise its company-wide minimum wage to $15 an hour by summer 2022. The Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based company, which is the parent of Hartford health insurer Aetna, said its minimum h…

New Amtrak train cars are coming to the New Haven-Springfield Line. The quasi-public railroad company announced plans last week to invest $7.3 billion in new, state-of-the-art equipment, including 83 trains expected to be manufactured in Sacramento, California by Munich-based Siemens Mobility. The…

Connecticut’s interstate highway network is among the most taxed and congested in the country, a recent study found, and the state’s infrastructure, especially highway bridges, are showing their age. A report from the National Transportation Research Group, which analyzes surface transportation iss…

The owner of a Mexican food truck with an enthusiastic local following in West Hartford is branching out into a brick-and-mortar location on Park Road. Chef Omar Bello, who has operated the Fuego Picante food truck in town for four years, said it’s become increasingly difficult to serve all of the…

Over 27,000 people left New York City and its surrounding metro areas for Connecticut last year, according to a new study, attaching concrete numbers to a phenomenon followed closely by the state’s elected leaders and real estate industry since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.