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Index
■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ Deal Watch: PG. 9
■ Movers & Shakers: PG. 27
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 28
Regulation Reform
Connecticut's first overhaul of its consumer-finance
and banking statutes in a long while aims to ease
borrowers' tensions in dealing with various lenders
and make it easier for businesses to obtain export
financing. PG. 3
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Serving a Purpose
Jennifer Holcomb has worked more than 20 years
in the restaurant industry at well-known eateries
throughout the region, but she's found something
special and different at Firebox Restaurant in
Hartford. PG. 8
Couple aims to build
CT's largest makerspace
By Matt Pilon
mpilon@HartfordBusiness.com
A
n Avon couple hopes to kick
Connecticut's burgeoning
"makerspace" movement
up a few notches, and they may
have the funding to do it.
Bryan Patton and his wife
Devra Sisitsky, co-founders of an
effort to build in Hartford what
would be the state's largest maker-
space, said they've raised approx-
imately $1.3 million and are aim-
ing to double that amount in the
months ahead to get the space up
and running.
Patton owns a home construc-
tion business and has been a self-
described hobbyist and tinkerer
for much of his life. Sisitsky has
started several companies over the
years and worked in health insur-
ance and consulting.
Makerspace is a broad term that
generally describes a communal
space where a group of collabora-
tors or "makers" work on projects
in a variety of mediums, from
woodworking and metalwork-
ing to computer coding and elec-
tronics. Connecticut has at least
Bryan Patton and his
wife Devra Sisitsky show
off a design concept of
their planned maker-
space for Hartford's Colt
Armory complex.
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