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www.HartfordBusiness.com April 27, 2015 • Hartford Business Journal 7 WHAT'S AHEAD: ■ 5/4 Focus: Commercial Real Estate ■ The List: Commercial Property Sales ■ Nonprofit Profile: American School for the Deaf CALENDAR TUESDAY, MAY, 12 CT Tourism Conference The Connecticut Office of Tourism (COT) will bring together tourism and cultural professionals from across a wide array of industry sectors for a tourism conference on May 12, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. The conference, which runs from 8.m. to 5 p.m. will feature an address by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, along with a special report on the results of the Connecticut "Still Revolutionary" integrated marketing campaign and a preview of the spring and summer campaign. The keynote speaker for this year's conference is Peter Yesawich. As vice chairman of MMGY Global, a travel marketing, advertising and public relations agency, Yesawich is one of the most respected sources of insights on the emerging habits, preferences and intentions of American travelers. For more information contact: Kristen Morea FleishmanHillard, 212.453.2394, kristen.morea@fleishman.com. 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 . ECONOMY & LABOR CT's March job tally grows Connecticut added 4,000 more jobs in March, which combined with 800 miscounted jobs from February, left its jobless rate un- changed but pushed the state's roster of working residents back closer to its pre-Great Recession peak, the Department of Labor said. The state's nonfarm payroll rose less than 1 percent last month to 1,686,700, keeping the March unemployment rate at 6.4 per- cent, same as February. The department revised downward its February job-loss tally to 2,900 from 3,700, saying they had been miscast. Since March 2014, Connecticut has regained 27,100 jobs, put- ting its post-recession jobs recovery at 92,700, or 78 percent of the 119,000 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs lost from March 2008 to February 2010, the agency said. HEALTH CARE & INSURANCE Marijuana patient rolls growing The number of patients registered in the state's medical mari- juana program has grown by more than half over the last six months, the Department of Consumer Protection said last week. Registered patients numbered 3,635 as of April 15, DCP said. That's up from 2,326 from Oct. 15 — when the state's six dis- pensaries had been open for less than one month. Fairfield County has the most registered patients, 884, while Hartford County is close behind at 744. REAL ESTATE March good to area house sales, prices Hartford area house sales and prices rose in March, Realtors said. Single-family closings hit 639 last month, up 2 percent from 627 units sold in March 2014, according to the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors. Prices rose 5 percent to $207,500 in March vs. $198,000 a year ago. So far this year, though, house sales are flat at 1,676 units sold vs. 1,690 sold through the first three months of 2014, the association said. March condominium sales climbed 9 percent to 164 units vs. 151 units sold the same month last year, Realtors said. However, condo prices were hard hit, plummeting 13 percent to a median $139,500 vs. $160,400 a year earlier. Association CEO Jeff Arakelian said the data show closed sales may finally have caught up with the previously burgeoning pipe- line of houses under contract but not yet closed. ENERGY & UTILITIES Comcast flips switch on Berlin fuel cell Comcast Cable last week turned on the 400-kilowatt fuel cell at its Western New England Regional headquarters in Berlin, cover- ing 80 percent of the facility's entire electricity load. The fuel cell was provided by California-based Bloom Energy and will produce 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, offsetting the 80,000-square-foot facility's carbon emissions by the equivalent of taking 185 cars off the road. The ceremony last week was timed to coincide with Earth Day. The building is the master facility for receiving and process- ing television signals for distribution on the Comcast network. It houses 450 employees. Bloom Energy is a direct competitor to Connecticut's two fuel cell companies: FuelCell Energy in Danbury and Doosan Fuel Cell in South Windsor. Peter Yesawich THE DEGREE DESIGNED FOR YOUR CAREER ONLINE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Complete your degree 100% online. 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