GREATER HARTFORD'S BUSINESS NEWS WWW.HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM VOLUME 27 • NUMBER 32 $3.00 SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
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Center
Stage
With a $6-million
renovation,
TheaterWorks
is upgrading its
lobby, theater and
reputation.
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Plowshares to
Aeroparts
In three years, an Italian maker
of jet-engine compressor blades
has revived a formerly moribund
Farmington industrial shop, adding
more than 100 jobs and targeting
$100 million in annual sales.
Check out our special section highlighting
companies with forward-thinking wellness
programs that are reducing healthcare costs
and improving employee health.
Newsmakers
Yafit Cohn, Chief
Sustainability Officer,
Travelers Cos.
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THE LISTS:
Largest power
generators in
Connecticut and
Healthiest employers
in Connecticut
Big Deals
A little-known state
corporate-incentive
program has quietly doled
out hundreds of millions
of dollars in sales-tax
exemptions.
Learn how a
massive $1B
data-center
project
ended up in
New Britain.
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HBJ
PHOTO
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BILL
MORGAN
Mark Wick is part of the
development group proposing
to build — with the help of a
major state sales-tax break
— a $1 billion data-center
project in New Britain, at
the site of a former Stanley
Works manufacturing plant.
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