by Joelyn Leon | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
An isolated corner of downtown Hartford that struggled for decades to be known for more than its dusty parking lots appeared finally to have something going for it: a popular minor league ballpark and brisk leasing of the first of as many as 1,000 apartments. The city...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Built-out and pocked with abandoned buildings and tattered shopping plazas, East Hartford has long suffered from a lack of interest by developers in building anything new within its 18 square miles. With per-capita income among the state’s lowest at about $32,000,...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Workers were pouring 4 million pounds of concrete when a building under construction on Lafayette Street collapsed Friday, injuring eight, an official said. As of Saturday afternoon, four of the workers who were rescued at the scene of the collapse at 188 Lafayette...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Deborah Sims, like Newton, also attended the rallies at Mount Trashmore. Now she and the coalition she helped form are on the cusp of turning the municipally-owned site across from Johnsons Creek, bordered by Central Avenue, Trowel Street and Suggetts Lane, into an...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Crews are preparing to use explosives to blast away up to a foot of rock as part of the construction of a new crucial pumping station that will help mitigate flooding near the banks of the Housatonic River, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The...
by Joelyn Leon | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
On May 19 the cargo ship Claude A. Desgagnes arrived from Denmark to a State Pier in New London. It carried both the first components for offshore wind turbine construction and the promising possibilities that this will become a major new industry, benefiting the...
