Press Releases

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• 6/10/2025 LT. GOVERNOR BYSIEWICZ & THE CONNECTICUT OFFICE OF THE ARTS DESIGNATE A CULTURAL DISTRICT IN FAIRFIELD

• 6/12/2025 Governor Lamont Announces State Grants for Assessment and Remediation of 23 Blighted Properties

• 2/21/2025 LT. GOVERNOR BYSIEWICZ & THE CONNECTICUT OFFICE OF THE ARTS DESIGNATE TWO CULTURAL DISTRICTS IN FARMINGTON

• 5/20/2025 DECD Announces TRUMPF is the First Company to Receive Funding Under the Strategic Supply Chain Initiative

• 1/23/2025 DECD Announces Selection of Three Finalist Teams Under the Connecticut Innovation Clusters Program

• 10/21/2019 Governor Lamont Names Colin Cooper as Connecticut’s First Chief Manufacturing Officer

• 5/2/2019 Gov Lamont Announces Development Plan to Establish New London as a Hub of the Offshore Wind Industry

• 6/20/2019 Amazon Will Soon Hire 1,800 Full-Time Employees at New Fulfillment Center in North Haven

• 2/1/2019 Gov. Lamont Announces New Construct for State's Aggressive Economic Development Strategy

• 10/29/2019 Governor Lamont Forms Council to Ensure Businesses Have Access to the Best Trained Workers in the Country

• 9/10/2018 Gov. Malloy: Leading International Energy Retailer Expands in Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Crius Energy, through its wholly owned subsidiary Regional Energy Holdings, will relocate its headquarters to Norwalk, where the company will retain its 200 jobs and create 225 new positions within the next four years.

• 10/6/2016 Gov. Malloy Announces Henkel Corporation Moving Headquarters Across the Country and Creating Hundreds of Jobs in Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy is applauding the decision of Germany-based Henkel Corporation to relocate its Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care headquarters across the country from Arizona to Stamford, Connecticut, where the company plans on expanding in a $50 million project that will create up to 266 new jobs in the state.

• 11/9/2016 Gov. Malloy: AQR Capital Management to Expand, Add Up to 600 New Jobs in Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that AQR Capital Management, a global investment management firm, plans to expand its headquarters and operations in Connecticut over the next ten years - a more than $72 million project that will retain 540 jobs, create up to 600 new jobs, and significantly increase the firm's economic impact in the state.

• 2/10/2016 Gov. Malloy Announces $8.7 Million for Brownfield Redevelopment in 16 Municipalities

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that 16 municipalities across Connecticut are being awarded $8.7 million in state grants that will help the communities revitalize and remediate specific properties so they can be put back into productive use and attract new development that will benefit each town and city.

• 6/30/2016 Gov. Malloy Announces Latest Round of Funding to Help Remediate and Revitalize Connecticut Brownfields

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is providing $7.9 million in grants to 14 towns and cities across the state for brownfield remediation and assessment activities. The projects comprise 187 acres of redevelopment.