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Partying at the Palladium
T
he historic Palladium Building on Orange Street was the site of the
Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce's Sept. 18 Business Aer
Hours networking event. e soirée was hosted by the real estate
services and investment firm the NHR Group.
e Renaissance Revival/Italianate-style building, thought to be the
work of one of New Haven's most prominent 19th-century architects,
Henry Austin, opened in 1856 as the Young Men's Institute, a debating
and social society whose descendant is the still-extant Institute Library on
lower Chapel Street.
It later housed the New Haven Daily Palladium newspaper, founded
in 1829, a Whig (and later Republican) newspaper prominent for its
abolitionist stance in the years leading up to the Civil War.
As for its current occupants, the NHR Group was to receive the award
for Developer Investment at the Chamber's Business Leadership Awards
luncheon Oct. 4 in New Haven.
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Juan M. Salas-Romer, president and CEO of the NHR Group, welcomed guests
to the firm's historic Orange Street headquarters.
Darren Seid, principal of the NYC real estate firm Epimoni, with Suzanne Shaw,
executive director of Yale Conferences & Events.
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