As Geno Auriemma opens his new restaurant at the Storrs Center development near the University of Connecticut, the next phase of the $220 million project is on schedule to open in early August.

Howard Kaufman, managing member of Tuxedo, N.Y.-based LeylandAlliance, the project’s master developer, told me today that the 195 apartments now under construction [...]

UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma has opened his restaurant  at the Storrs Center development.

Auriemma, fresh off the NCAA tournament championship, officially opened Geno’s Grille Thursday — but there was a soft opening that began a couple of weeks ago that wasn’t announced or advertised.

Here’s coverage from The Courant’s sister television station FOXCT:

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The consortium proposing to build a $1 billion casino and entertaiment complex in Milford, Mass., which includes Connecticut’s Foxwoods Resort Casino, will open a local storefront to market the project.

FCX LLC said the storefront will give residents access to the information on the project, voice concerns and express their ideas.

“Working with a [...]

My colleague Jesse Leavenworth reports:

A major property owner and developer sold a commercial plaza on Buckland Hills Drive to a New Jersey investor for $7.75 million.

John Finguerra, principal of Northern Hills, LLC, sold 233 Buckland Hills Drive to Keith Beccia of Becrett, LLC, documents filed in the town clerk’s office this week show. [...]

My colleague Jenna Carlesso reports:

HARTFORD — The council has given city leaders the green light to enter into a lease with the Capital Region Development Authority to manage operations of the XL Center.

The XL Center would be leased to the state under a proposed 10-year agreement that guarantees the [...]

Sales of single-family houses in Greater Hartford slowed in March from the strong pace at the end of 2012, but pending sales rose by more than 20 percent compared with a year ago,  a new report this afternoon shows.

The increase in pending sales could be a sign that the area’s housing market may still [...]

A commercial real estate firm established by two local industry veterans in 2011 has added six locally, well-known executives as it broadens the services it can offer its clients.

East Hartford-based Goman + York, founded by R. Michael Goman, the former president and chief executive of Konover Development Corp., and Thomas D. York, a former [...]

The conversion of the former Capewell Horsenail Factory in Hartford into housing got a $2 million boost from the state from funds targeting the clean-up of brownfield sites.

The grant was part of $10.5 million in loans and grants for  announced today by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Catherine Smith, commissioner of the state Department [...]

The Hartford Regional Market, the largest agricultural distribution facility between Boston and New York, could receive $400,000 from the state for much needed repairs.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced today that State Bond Commission will vote at its next meeting on the funding, which will be used to help pay for more than $600,000 in [...]

A report from the U.S. Census today found that rental housing vacancy in the Hartford metro area dipped to 7.45 percent in 2011, but another report with more up-to-date statistics shows an even tighter rental market in 2013.

Marcus & Millichap recently estimated that the Hartford metro area now has a 3.2 percent rental vacancy [...]