New Haven's Boom Prompts A Wish List for Blumenthal
Look out that window down below, the businessman told the senator: That’s where the jobs are coming. With your help.
Newly elected U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal got that nine-story view and heard that message Thursday as he brought his 2011 road show (aka “listening tour”) to New Haven.
Retracing his steps from last year’s election campaign, Blumenthal is asking people at other recession-plagued locales: How can we create jobs?
In New Haven, by contrast, he encountered a downtown biotech/ biomedical district that’s already stamping out high-tech jobs like pistons on an auto assembly line. So much so that its drivers needs his help as it seeks to build new space for more medical research and product-development jobs.
Blumenthal promised that help.
“I want to do everything in my power ... to grow the critical mass,” Blumenthal said during one of several New Haven stops Thursday, the 300 George St. lab and office complex owned by Carter Winstanley. “We live in a knowledge-based economy ... New Haven is leading the way to economic recovery ... This is cutting-edge.”
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