2014

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• 6/6/2014 Gov. Malloy: Headquarters of the Largest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in the Country Relocating to Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has finalized a deal that will bring the headquarters of the country’s largest intercollegiate athletic conference, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), from Massachusetts to Danbury, Connecticut.

• 3/10/2014 Gov. Malloy: Small Business Express Program Has Now Helped More Than 1,000 Companies Expand and Create Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Commissioner Catherine Smith and other state and local officials, today announced that the state’s Small Business Express Program (EXP) has now helped more than 1,000 Connecticut companies that are creating and retaining about 14,000 jobs for Connecticut residents.

• 8/27/2014 Gov. Malloy Announces Unprecedented Investment in Brownfield Remediation Projects Around the State

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by state and local officials in Bridgeport, today announced that the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has awarded a total of $27 million in grants and loans to 20 brownfield remediation and redevelopment projects in cities and towns around the state.

• 1/2/2014 Gov. Malloy Directs Winter Storm Release of State Workforce

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy directed Executive Branch agency heads to release their employees early in stages this afternoon in order to better manage the evening commute given the inclement conditions.

• 12/4/2014 Gov. Malloy: State Will Continue to Support the Growth of Connecticut’s Aerospace Manufacturing Industry

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that AMCO Precision Tool Inc., a leader in the aerospace and commercial parts machining industry, is expanding its manufacturing operations in Berlin to support a $160 million contract over the next 20 years.

• 5/15/2014 Gov. Malloy: Reclaiming Brownfields is Key to Improving the Environment and Creating Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is accepting applications for a new round of funding of up to $20 million that will be awarded to help remediate and redevelop brownfield sites throughout the state.

• 6/4/2014 Gov. Malloy: State Must Continue to Lead in Advanced Manufacturing

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Catherine Smith and other state and local officials, today visited precision manufacturing company, A-1 Machining Co., which will receive funding through DECD to expand, purchase machinery and equipment and make leasehold improvements at its new facility.

• 7/30/2014 Gov. Malloy: Leading Precision Manufacturer Will Expand and Create Jobs in Bethel

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Memry Corporation, a leading manufacturer in the shape memory alloys industry, will expand its facility in Bethel to meet growing production demand. As part of the expansion project, Memry will add 76 new jobs to its current workforce of 153 employees by November 2017.

• 1/23/2014 Gov. Malloy: Connecticut Awarded Federal Planning Grant to Study How to Strengthen State’s Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Workforce

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced today that the state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT), which have partnered on a Regional Aerospace and Defense Exchange (RADE) initiative to study the impact of defense contract reductions to Connecticut and New England, will receive a $1.25 million U.S. Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment (DoD OEA) grant for the joint effort.

• 4/2/2014 Gov. Malloy: Agreement Reached to Turn Vacant Buildings into Bioscience Business Incubator, New State Data Center

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by state Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Commissioner Donald DeFronzo, state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Catherine Smith, Head of Pfizer Pharmatherapeutics R&D Rod MacKenzie, PhD, representatives from Connecticut’s bioscience research organizations, and other state and local officials, today announced that an agreement has been reached to put two vacant buildings on Pfizer’s Groton campus back into productive reuse as a bioscience innovation center for Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE) and as a new DAS state data center.

• 10/31/2014 Gov. Malloy: UBS Commits to Connecticut Through 2021

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced UBS and the state have amended their partnership agreement, re-affirming UBS’s commitment to the state through 2021.

• 10/3/2015 Gov. Malloy: New Brownfield Program Focuses on Revitalizing Historically Significant Industrial Structures Around the State

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is accepting applications for a new round of funding of up to $1.5 million that will be awarded to advance the remediation and redevelopment of historically significant brownfield sites throughout the state.

• 1/15/2014 Gov. Malloy: Investment Will Create Jobs for Connecticut Residents

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced the state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) will provide a loan to Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) Inc. for an expansion project at the company’s South Windsor facility. The funding will create or retain 65 jobs for Connecticut residents over the next two years.

• 12/11/2014 Gov. Malloy Re-Appoints Catherine Smith as Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he intends to re-appoint Catherine Smith as Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) when his second term in office begins on January 7, 2015.

• 12/17/2015 Thursday: Gov. Malloy Announces Arts in Education Grant Recipients

  On Thursday at noon, Governor Dannel P. Malloy will hold a news conference in New Haven to announce the recipients of the competitive Arts in Education grants, which are part of a multi-agency partnership between the State Department of Education, the Department of Economic and Community Development-Connecticut Office of the Arts, and the Connecticut Arts Council.