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www.HartfordBusiness.com September 19, 2016 • Hartford Business Journal 7 WHAT'S AHEAD: ■ 9/26 Focus: Continuing and Graduate Education ■ The List: MBA Programs/ Graduate Programs ■ Nonprofit Profile: TheaterWorks CALENDAR THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 Marcum Tech Top 40 Awards Ceremony The ninth annual Marcum Tech Top 40 Awards will be held Sept. 22 at the Toyota Oakdale Theater, 95 S Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. The event, which runs from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., will recognize 40 companies for outstanding revenue growth, dubbed as the industry's fastest-growing companies. Each tech top 40 team is categorized under one of six industry verticals: software, IT services, new media/ internet/telecom, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and energy/ environmental technology. Cost to attend is $95-$120. For more information or to register go to: http://www.ct.org/signature-event/marcum-tech-top-40/. 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 ' C A L E N D A R . ' 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 . TRANSPORTATION State aims to add 60 more rail cars on New Haven line More than 6,000 additional commuters will be accommodated on the New Haven rail line if Connecticut authorizes an additional 60 rail cars to its fleet, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said last week. The State Bond Commission is expected to consider the $200 million appropriation for the new cars at a meeting later this month. Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) Commis- sioner James P. Redeker said the New Haven Line is now carrying as many passengers today as had been projected for 2021. Owned by CTDOT and operated by Metro-North Railroad, the New Haven rail line carried more than 40.3 million passengers last year, or 2 percent more than the prior year, setting an all-time record. Ridership overall is up about 12 percent over the last five years, with peak-hour ridership up 27 percent, Redeker and Malloy said. The 60 new M-8 rail cars carry 105 seats each. They are pow- ered by overhead catenary lines and do not need locomotives. Under current plans, 10 of the 60 new rail cars will be converted into café cars — popularly known as bar cars. The last New Ha- ven Line café cars were retired in 2014. REAL ESTATE CRCOG: 19K homes could have crumbling foundations More than 19,000 homes in eastern and north-central Connecti- cut could have, or end up with, crumbling concrete foundations, according to a Capitol Region Council of Governments study, but it is unlikely many of them will. Using data from assessors in area towns, CRCOG Special Project Manager Pauline Yoder said recently the study found that as many as 19,121 homes in 24 towns could be plagued with deteriorating foundations that were poured between the 1980s and 2011. Yoder stressed that the 19,000 figure represents the total number of homes built during that time in the area, conse- quently it's doubtful all of them contain concrete from the J.J. Mottes Co. in Stafford with aggregate from Becker's quarry in Willington — the two companies continually associated with the problem concrete. Every town within a 30-minute driving distance from the quar- ry, and some farther away have been affected, Yoder said. – Eric Bedner | Journal Inquirer Fewer CT homes steeped in foreclosure process in July Connecticut's foreclosure inventory dropped by slightly more than 21 percent in July, compared with the same time last year, paralleling a national trend, according to the latest data from CoreLogic. The property analytics firm reported that inventory for com- pleted foreclosures dropped from 4,942 in July 2015 to 2,385 this past July, a drop of nearly 52 percent. The serious delinquency rate likewise dropped by 25.2 percent. The inventory rate in Con- necticut was 1.5 percent. Foreclosure inventory represents the number of homes at some stage of the foreclosure process, while completed foreclosures reflect the total number of homes lost in that process. 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