Hartford Business Journal

www.HartfordBusiness.com October 3, 2016 • Hartford Business Journal 7 WHAT'S AHEAD: ■ 10/10 Focus: Technology ■ The List: Largest telecommunications companies ■ Nonprofit Profile: United Way CALENDAR FRIDAY, OCT. 7 Painkillers & Opioids in the Workplace The Middlesex Chamber of Commerce's monthly member's meeting will feature UConn men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie followed by a workshop on opioid use in the workplace. The event will run from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Radisson Hotel Cromwell, 100 Berlin Road. Ollie will give his preseason speech to chamber members. Then there will be a presentation on how employers can help their workers become more knowledgeable about managing pain, including the healthy use of opiates, over-the- counter medications and alternative therapies. Presenters include: Dr. Matthew Lundquist, who specializes in occupational medicine; Betsey Chadwick, director of the Middlesex County Substance Abuse Action Council; and Kelly Huffman, licensed professional counselor with the Middlesex Hospital Employee Assistance Program and Solutions EAP. Cost to attend is $22 for members; $32 for nonmembers. For more information go to: http://middlesexchamber.com/. TRANSPORTATION Google delivery service expands to CT, 12 other states Google last week expanded its Google Express service to a large portion of the East Coast, including Connecticut. Google Express is a two-day delivery system for shopping online from mobile phones or laptops at major retail outlets like Costco, Whole Foods, Kohl's and Petsmart. The options offered are for an annual $95 membership or pay-as-you-go service for fees as low as $4.99 per order. Besides Connecticut, the states affected include Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir- ginia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. With the extension in service, Google Express estimates it could reach more than 70 million more users. Kevin Ollie CBIA Health Connections – Connecticut's leading small business insurance program – offers you the best combination of value, service, and choice in a single program. It's easy to administer and backed by industry-leading customer service. Medical plans from ConnectiCare and Harvard Pilgrim Group and voluntary dental, life, disability, and vision options Employee wellness program One bill; one number to call for personal service Join the thousands of Connecticut small businesses who choose CBIA Health Connections. Contact your agent for a quote or visit cbia.com. Why do Connecticut small businesses choose CBIA Health Connections for insurance? cbia.com/insurance | 860.244.1900 Savings, Simplicity, and Service REAL ESTATE Hartford to house Barberino's third dealership One of Connecticut's largest Mitsubishi auto dealerships will open its third new used-car showroom and service store on the former Crowley Chevrolet-Hummer grounds on the Hartford-West Hartford border. Barberino Mitsubishi is opening at 430 New Park Ave., said Mike Baker, who runs the Hartford location as general manager. The interior of the 24,000-square-foot showroom-service center fronting New Park, and flanked to the rear by the CTfastrak busway, was heavily remodeled to accommodate 30 employees initially, the showroom, sales offices, service department and a customer wait- ing area stocked with arcade games, Baker said. Barberino invested about $200,000 to recast the space leased from the Crowley orga- nization, which operates other dealerships in the state. While it awaits final state Department of Motor Vehicles ap- proval to open, Barberino has nearly 200 new and used vehicles parked at other Barberino locations awaiting transport to their Hartford home, Baker said. CT housing permits rebound in August Permits for new housing construction statewide rose modestly in August, reversing four previous months of declines, state data shows. Connecticut's 104 cities and towns sampled by the U.S. Cen- sus Bureau counted 276 permits for single- and multi-family con- struction in August vs. 241 issued in Aug. 2015, the state Depart- ment of Economic and Community Development (DECD) said. Through the first eight months of this year, those sampled com- munities issued 2,703 homebuilding permits vs. 3,301 granted the same period a year earlier, DECD data showed. After starting the year with January permits down from a year earlier, permit issuances rebounded in February and March before tailing off in April, continuing their decline through July. A screen shot of Google Express' delivery-service website. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D

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