Bank on it
Hudson Valley prospers in dicey times
By ALEXANDER SOULE

Jim Landy has watched as newfangled lenders, late the darlings of Wall Street, came to dominate credit markets once controlled by the bricks-and-mortar banking world. read more

Alliance key to major projects
RI mayor tells Yonkers crowd of redevelopment experiences
By JOHN GOLDEN

The mayor of a Northeast city of comparable size and postindustrial decline to Yonkers visited last week to share lessons learned from his city’s waterfront redevelopment effort and economic renaissance. read more

Sweet tour
Sugar House offers look inside
By MARY SUE IAROCCI

After being a self-described good neighbor for some 107 years on the Yonkers waterfront, it recently said it might not be a good neighbor to a residential high-rise proposed for an adjacent piece of land. read more

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Claws and effect
Restauranteur hooks office, leisure diners
By RYAN DORAN

When the sun is shining, a warm breeze is blowing, the thermometer reads 75 degrees and you’re crouched over an office desk in the increasingly industrial city of Stamford, spring fever happens. read more

Spare a buck?
Smaller banks navigate doldrums
By ALEXANDER SOULE

Community banks appear to be pouncing on commercial loan opportunities in the first half of the year, claiming larger banks and other credit sources pulled back from lending momentarily as they assessed their exposure to subprime lending and other economic pockets showing signs of distress. read more

Cable on the table
Time Warner, Time Warner Cable may part ways
By ALEXANDER SOULE

In Time Warner Inc.’s proposal to hand new investors the remote control for Time Warner Cable Inc., the move could overnight create one of the three largest companies based in Fairfield County. read more

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Tasty Rhinebeck
A day of food and drink benefits hospital
By JIM GORDON

A traveling feast through the streets of Rhinebeck recently benefited the Northern Duchess Hospital Foundation, but the fourth-annual Taste of Rhinebeck was also a benefit to anyone lucky enough to sign up for the fare. read more

E pluribus unum?
American motto is put to the regional test
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

A little more than a week after a commission charged with finding ways to reduce the cost of local government released its recommendations, the process of implementing some of those suggestions has begun. read more

Plug nickels
Electric plan would decouple use and profits
By JIM GORDON

How does a company that sells energy continue to turn a profit and meet shareholder expectations at a time when energy conservation is becoming official policy? And how does that company implement a new model for tallying revenue when profits are falling? read more

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