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Product Development
Stanadyne LLC's Windsor headquarters/R&D
center functions more like a corporate test kitchen,
where engineers and technicians devise and
calibrate highly toleranced methods for
manufacturing and assembling fuel-system
components. Get an inside look. PG. 3
Transformative Figure
About three years ago, Brent Robertson and his
business partner David Louden began transforming
their West Hartford-based company Fathom from a
web design/branding/marketing firm to something
deeper. Then, about two years ago, Robertson
began transforming himself. Find out how. PG. 5
FREE MARKET
INTRUSION
Businesses oppose
state's push into
private industries
By Matt Pilon
mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com
T
elecommunications and financial ser-
vices are largely distinct industries,
but they've been linked recently as
Connecticut policymakers and advocates
push for greater state government involve-
ment in each sector.
Separate bills are expected to be pitched this
legislative session that would establish a gov-
ernment-run retirement plan for private-sector
workers and use state funds to help expand the
availability of affordable, ultra-high-speed
Internet to residents and businesses.
Both proposals face fierce oppo-
sition from industry groups like
the Connecticut Business &
Continued on page 14
Developments aim to restore luster
to E. Hartford's Silver Lane corridor
By Gregory Seay
gseay@HartfordBusiness.com
E
ast Hartford's Silver Lane
occupies a heralded chapter
in Connecticut's long-run-
ning economic story.
From the state's colonial days,
when the Connecticut River
settlement was still part of Hart-
ford, through the town's explo-
sive employment and population
growth during and after World
War II, to today, as a new genera-
tion seeks to explore and exploit
its money-making opportunities,
Silver Lane is a survivor.
But the approximately 3 ½-mile
stretch of four-lane asphalt ribbon
extending east to west, from Main
Street/Route 5-15 to East Hart-
ford's border with Manchester, and
flanked by industrial, retail, com-
mercial and residential properties,
Continued on page 12
Silver Lane Shopping Center is a remnant of the corridor's halcyon days.
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