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ARCHITECTS
Innovative Office Spaces
In an effort to discover some of the region's most
innovative office spaces, Hartford Business Journal
asked Greater Hartford companies to submit photos
and explanations of atypical workspaces. Check out
who made the cut. PG. 8
Index
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ The List: PGs. 14, 16
■ Deal Watch: PG. 18
■ Movers & Shakers: PG. 24
■ Corporate Profile: PG. 26
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 28
Nonprofit Madness
During next year's NCAA basketball tournament as
many as 64 Hartford County nonprofits will compete
for donations in an online bracket-style competition
organized by Indianapolis-based Brackets for Good,
which says it has helped raise $2.7 million for
charitable organizations in several states since
2012. PG. 3
Building
Bioscience
A N H B J S E R I E S O N C T ' S B I O S C I E N C E S E C T O R
Cardiac
Care
Dr. Bruce Liang has dual roles: He's
dean of UConn's medical school and
founder of a bioscience startup looking
to help heart-failure patients live longer.
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he summer installment of HBJ's series on
Connecticut's bioscience industry wraps
up this week with a look at Cornovus Phar-
maceuticals, which is developing a synthetic
molecule that could help prevent heart muscles
from dying. The company has successfully
raised $3.5 million as it tests its therapeutic
remedy on mice. Read more on PG. 20
Cornovus
Pharmaceuticals
eyes heart-failure
remedy
City's new zoning regs create a
'high opportunity' for development
By Gregory Seay
gseay@HartfordBusiness.com
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he city of Hartford since the
start of this year has been
using a revised template to
assess and approve zoning and
land-use applications, a format
that could hasten development
citywide, city officials, develop
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ers and land-use professionals say.
Among the biggest changes
is the city's reworking of its
parking-space requirements for
all new development downtown
and other city quadrants to de-
emphasize automobiles in favor of
mass-transit options, walking and
bicycling. Another is more flexibil-
ity in the way the city reviews and
approves land-use applications,
allowing city planning staff to
sign off on certain development
proposals without waiting for the
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Hog River Brewing's Hartford tap room was approved under new land-use rules.
