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www.HartfordBusiness.com March30,2015•Hartford Business Journal 5 PDS has been meeting the needs of the construction industry since 1965. Our dedicated team of design and construction professionals welcomes the challenge of serving its past and future customers on their most demanding projects. New England Air Museum | Windsor Locks, CT This project is a memorial museum hangar at Bradley International Airport. The museum houses restored B-29 Superfortress "Jack's Hack" air crafts. There is a 120 foot clear span pre-engineered building which is 30 feet high to accommodate the large tail section of the air craft. Also, a 90 foot wide hangar which allows easy access to the display. Total Project Size: 20,000 SF 107 Old Windsor Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002 (860) 242-8586 | Fax (860) 242-8587 www.pdsec.com PDS EnginEEring & COnsTRuCTiOn, inC. Design BuilDeRs • geneRal COnTRaCTORs • COnsTRuCTiOn ManageRs SPoTlighT on: Aviation RepoRteR's Notebook Stamford law firm makes move into Hartford A Stamford law firm is making its first push into the Capital City after poaching six lawyers from the Hartford office of national law firm LeClairRyan. Ryan Ryan Deluca LLP, which focuses on insurance and medical malpractice liti- gation, will grow to 38 Connecticut lawyers with the new additions. Former LeClairRyan Hartford office leader Steven H. Malitz will now be the lead partner in Ryan Ryan Deluca's new Hartford office. Attorneys Janice D. Lai, Maria Alexander, Joaquin L. Madry, Michael P. Kenney and Kate J. Boucher also made the move from LeClairRyan to Ryan Ryan Deluca. Rob Laney, Ryan Ryan Deluca's manag- ing partner, said the firm has been eyeing a Hartford expansion to grow its geographic footprint and add to its service offerings. The new Hartford team's focus on truck- ing and commercial transportation, prod- ucts liability, and retail and hospitality liti- gation will complement the firm's existing medical malpractice and insurance litiga- tion business, Laney said. "We have not had a platform to do insur- ance or malpractice litigation in Hartford," Laney said. "This gives us that opportunity." Malitz, who also spent two decades at Halloran & Sage, said he and his team are currently operating out of temporary office space in Windsor, but they're looking for space in downtown Hartford and plan to move to the Capital City by the summer. Malitz said he decided to join Ryan Ryan DeLuca because he wanted to be part of a Connecticut-based firm whose sole focus was on trial work in this state. LeClairRyan has about 380 attorneys in offices across the country. Its Hartford office is in the Gold Building on 755 Main St., which has five remaining lawyers, Malitz said. LeClairRyan didn't return a call seeking comment. Malitz said all of his clients have made the move with him and his team. – Greg Bordonaro Thrift sets Duncaster office Windsor Federal Savings is opening in early May its newest limited-service branch office to exclusively serve residents and employees of the Duncaster senior-living community in Bloomfield. Occupying less than 300 square feet in the retirement-community's common area, the Windsor savings and loan's one-employ- ee satellite will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays. The Windsor Fed/Duncaster partner- ship ensures convenient access for resi- dents and workers to a full range of banking services, Windsor Fed CEO George Her- mann and Duncaster CEO Michael O'Brien said in a joint statement. This is Windsor Fed's second senior- living satellite office and its fourth limited- service branch in the Hartford region. On March 3, it debuted a tiny branch inside the Seabury senior community, also in Bloomfield. Both offices previously were established by People's United Bank, said Hermann. People's United ran its Seabury satellite for more than two decades before shutting it, he said. Neither Duncaster nor Seabury will have automated teller machines and nei- ther is open to the general public. "These types of offices are easy to open," Hermann said. "For us, it's a just a natural fit to our operations." Many of Windsor Fed's customers who are Duncaster residents currently drive or travel by shuttle to the thrift's full-service Bloomfield branch at 54 Jerome Ave., in the center of town. Windsor Fed also operates a pair of other limited-service satellites: Students- only locations inside Bloomfield High School and Windsor High School. — Gregory Seay Ryan Ryan Deluca's Hartford attorneys: Back row (left to right): Michael P. Kenney, Janice Lai, Steven H. Malitz. Front row (left to right): Joaquin L. Madry, Maria Alexander, Kate J. Boucher. 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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

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