Michael Puffer

Google Mixed-use redevelopment proposed for iconic Republican-American newspaper HQ in Waterbury.

Hartford’s City Council this week endorsed a 15-year tax incentive for the renovation of a largely empty downtown office building into a dorm for University of Connecticut students.

The Channel 3 Kids Camp provided a camping experience for disadvantaged children from across Connecticut and beyond for many years before its closure in 2022 amid financial challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic.Now, that mantle will be taken up by the West Hartford-based nonprofit The Justice Education Center Inc., which recently paid $3.5 million for the camp’s 138-acre property along the Skungamaug River in Coventry and Andover.

HBJ PHOTO | STEVE LASCHEVER Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam at City Hall.

An attorney representing the owners of a Hartford apartment building damaged by fire in August released a statement Tuesday accusing city officials of getting in the way of repairs and misleading the public.

The owner of a South Windsor-based plumbing company recently paid $2.3 million for the industrial property hosting his headquarters.

The state’s largest news media organization, Hearst Connecticut Media Group, is in talks to buy the Republican-American newspaper, a Waterbury-based daily newspaper that traces its roots back to 1844.The deal, which includes the Citizens News, could be finalized as early as January, according to both news organizations.News of the talks comes at a time the Pape family, owners of the Republican-American, is working with city officials and a partner to advance a redevelopment of the newspaper’s iconic, 70,000-square-foot headquarters in the heart of downtown Waterbury.

A New York-based buyer recently paid $2.3 million for a Wethersfield building hosting a Burger King.

A Pennsylvania-based buyer recently paid $2.4 million for a 25,561-square-foot industrial building on 1.4 acres in an industrial area of Hartford’s South Meadow’s neighborhood.

A 52,402-square-foot Bloomfield industrial building hosting manufacturer HISCO Pump has sold for $1.6 million.