Thomas Breen // New Haven Independent

If Gabe Canestri Jr. “solicits, organizes, holds or participates in” any unpermitted motorcycle events in the city over the next three years, he could go to prison.

After announcing earlier this year plans to relocate to a “forever home” by New Haven's Fair Haven industrial waterfront, New England Brewing Co. took a big step this week towards building a new brewery—in West Haven instead.

Plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf won a key aldermanic approval — after two city department heads made their pitches for why New Haven should not have to wholly abandon waterfront development, even amid climate change.

The New Haven City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.

The city plans to send a bill for more than $100,000 in police and public works overtime to the organizer of an unpermitted 5,000-person motorcycle rally that tore through the Annex.

A court battle over a local landlord’s alleged theft of roughly $200,000 from his erstwhile business partner offers a glimpse into how internationally backed, multi-million-dollar real estate deals take shape in the city’s investor-laden housing market.