Since 2012, ConnCAT has provided free vocational training in medical billing and coding, phlebotomy and culinary arts fields that have job openings, aided by the relationships the organization has built with employers.

For cities like Hartford and New Haven, tax breaks can be the lifeblood of much of the economic development that occurs within their borders.

Downtown New Britain is steadily coming back after years of decline. What’s driving this revival? The bus.

A dry talent pipeline is contributing to economic stagnation in Connecticut’s cities. The state is one of 15 in the country with no accredited, graduate level urban planning programs.

In the years since the state purchased office buildings in Hartford, the MetroHartford Alliance, realty brokers, and others have called for “sale-leaseback” transactions to get them back on the property-tax rolls.

Massachusetts lawmakers — a place where municipalities rely heavily on property taxes — gave their cities and towns a powerful new revenue-raising tool.

Owner John Tornatore’s Gordon Bonetti Florist is one casualty of Hartford’s unique property tax system, which leans more heavily on businesses than homeowners. Tornatore pulled up stakes for neighboring Wethersfield, where he says he’s enjoying much lower tax bills. For years, John Tornatore chafed at the high personal and real estate property taxes the city […]

At 74.29 mills, Hartford’s property-tax rate is by far the state’s highest and among the nation’s highest. That has stifled economic growth in the city.