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www.HartfordBusiness.com March 23, 2015 • Hartford Business Journal 7 energy & uTiLiTieS Greenskies to solarize 180 Target stores Middletown solar installer Greenskies Renewable Energy signed an agreement with Target Corp. to put solar arrays on 180 Targets from Augusta, Maine to San Diego, Calif. When completed, the installations will produce 100 megawatts of energy. The average system will have 1,700 solar panels. Financial terms were not disclosed. The stores will be in 12 states: Arizona, California, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. Greenskies already has installed solar arrays on 58 Target stores and distribution centers. The average array produces enough electricity to provide 20-30 percent of a store's needs. Hamden landlord to submeter apartments The owner of the Broadmoor Apartments in Hamden has applied to submeter the building, one of only a handful around the state to do so. Broadmoor Apartment Management wants to submeter the six- story, 83-unit apartment complex in order to charge residents for their individual energy use, rather than all tenants paying a flat rate regardless of their energy use. The apartment complex would be the fourth building in the state to legally submeter, since the practice was permitted in 2013. Two apartment buildings in Hartford and one in New Haven also have asked to submeter their facilities. None of these applicants are trying to use submetering to pay for a renewable energy system on the property, which was a main reason Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sought to change the submetering law. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority still is deciding how exactly to regulate landlords with fuel cells, solar arrays, or wind turbines that submeter their tenants. wHaT'S aHead: ■ 3/30 Focus: engineering/municipal collaboration Summit ■ The List: Largest engineering firms ■ Nonprofit Profile: mystic Seaport caLendar Tuesday, March 24 Managing Risk With Captive Insurance The Barney School of Business at the University of Hartford is hosting a panel discussion March 24 on how businesses can manage their risks with captive insurance. The panel will be held in Auerbach Hall room A427, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, from 12:15-2:00 p.m. Panelists include Tom Hodson, president of the Connecticut Captive Insuarnce Association; Glenn Saslow, audit partner and director, Insurance Practice Group, Saslow, Lufkin & Buggy; and John Thomson, business office and captive insurance program manager, Connecticut Insurance Dept. The discussion will be moderated by Susan Winkler, executive director of the Connecticut Insurance and Financial Services Cluster. Attendance is free and lunch will be served. For more information contact: barneydo@hartford.edu or Beverly Smith, 860.768.4243, barneydo@hartford.edu. F O r a C O m P l e T e l i s T O F G r e a T e r H a r T F O r d b u s i n e s s e v e n T s , G O T O w w w . H a r T F O r d b u s i n e s s . C O m a n d C l i C k O n ' T H e a G e n d a . ' a l l C a l e n d a r i T e m s m u s T b e s u b m i T T e d e l e C T r O n i C a l l y v i a O u r w e b s i T e , H a r T F O r d b u s i n e s s . C O m . TouriSm State tourism spending yields 12x return The $32 million Connecticut has spent on tourism marketing since 2012 has yielded $393 million more in tourism revenues over that time span, according to a report by the Connecticut De- partment of Economic & Community Development. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy launched the Still Revolutionary tourism cam- paign in his second year in office, after working with advertising agen- cies on the best way to market the state. Since that time, the campaign has received 1.8 billion media impressions from 6,400 media outlets, a 49 percent increase in visitors to the state's tourism website, and a 20 percent increase in state welcome center visits. The average amount spent on a Connecticut trip rose to $875 per visit in 2014, up from $677 in 2011. The revenue per hotel room in Connecticut has risen 13 percent. In 2013, travelers spent $14 billion in the state, a 3 percent increase over 2012, which supported 118,500 jobs and generated $1.6 billion in taxes. Of that spending, 27 percent was in New London County, 26 per- cent in Fairfield County, 20 percent in Hartford County, 12 percent in New Haven County, 8 percent in Middlesex County, and 4 percent in Litchfield County. The top feeder markets for travelers were New York, Boston, Hart- ford, Providence, Springfield, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Tom Hodson EmploymEnt opportunity Phoenix Life Insurance Company seeks an Assistant Vice President, Technology Delivery Manager in Hartford, CT. Establish technology delivery goals. In collaboration w/ others, including senior business managers, will establish program/project objectives, quality & productivity objectives, production uptime objectives, technical objectives, revenue & expense budgets, staffing budgets & staffing levels. Plan the most effective process to achieve objectives. Define, execute, & delegate tasks to support these goals. Req's Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent in IT, Eng'g, Comp. Sci., Business, Mgmt. or a related eng'g field & 7 years of exp. in the area of tech mgmt. To apply: Send resume to Rochelle McCarthy, One American Row H-4 E-1 Hartford, CT 06102 To subscribe call (845) 267-3008 or go To www.HartfordBusiness.com G r e at e r H a r t f o r d ' s B u s i n e s s n e w s w w w. H a r t f o rd B u s i n e s s . c o m for more B2B news visit March 31, 2014 Volume 22, number 19 $3.00 subscribe online June 5, 2014 Only 10 weeks until C T B E x p o . c o m Index ■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5 ■ Week in Review: PG. 6 ■ The List: PG. 10 ■ Deal Watch: PG. 11 ■ Nonprofit Notebook: PG. 19 ■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20 Faces oF Business Main Street Mainstay Manchester's Bray Jewelers has survived for almost 100 years. Read about the family business' secrets to success and what makes customers keep coming back. PG. 3 Focus: economic DeveloPment Social Entrepreneurship Hartford business accelerator aims to nurture socially conscious businesses. PG. 8 Music copyright lawsuits cost restaurants unexpected thousands By Matt Pilon mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com A few years ago, nine songs were played inside Shelton's Vazzy's Cucina restaurant that ended up costing owners John Vazzano and Vincent L. Noce $18,000. That's because an agent of licensing giant Broadcast Music Inc., which represents the artists who owned the tracks, attested to being present when the tunes were played and sued Vazzano and Noce for copyright infringement, claiming the restaurant's music qualified as a public per- formance. Under federal copyright law, that meant the restaurant had to pay for the rights to play the songs, BMI said. Vazzano said he thinks a private party actually played the tunes. Broadcast Music Inc. • Founded in 1939 • Represents more than 600,000 songwriters and publishers with more than 8.5 million songs. • Distributed 85 cents of every dollar in licensing revenue in royalties — that amounted to $814 million in fiscal 2013. By Gregory Seay gseay@HartfordBusiness.com B y late May, the Corporation For Independent Living (CIL) expects to have in its hands title to the derelict Capewell Horse- nails factory in Hartford's South End in a bid to convert the idle eyesore into 72 apartments and an adjacent parcel into 24 affordable townhomes. If it does, it will open another fruit- ful chapter for a South End nonprofit that has leveraged — and exported — its talent as a group-home developer to shelter a diverse swath of central Connecticut's population. It, too, will be one of the final swan songs before the yearend retirement of its first and only chief executive. Since its launch in 1979 to finance, build, lease out — then ultimately give away — supportive shelter for thou- sands of the state's physically and mentally disabled, CIL has invested $458 million to construct or convert 2,205 dwelling units into shelter for 7,200 residents in Connecticut and Massachusetts. For at least a dozen years, CIL has applied that same skill set to its expand- ing for-profit realty development opera- tions that include Capewell, and a neigh- boring nonprofit-office-space cluster. In February, CIL announced it bought and will resume work on the $3.34 mil- lion Depot Crossing mixed-use project John Vazzano, owner of Vazzy's Cucina in Shelton, was upset when his restaurant had to pay $18,000 to settle a music copyright lawsuit. P h o t o | P a b l o R o b l e s Continued on page 16 Continued on page 15 Martin "Marty'' Legault, president and CEO, Corporation For Independent Living (CIL) With Legault, developer CIL soars as landlord Sued for a ong G r e at e r H a rt f o r d' s B u s i n e s s n e w s D e c e m b e r 22, 2014 w w w. 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