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Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized

Complaining of decades of decay at the Silver Lane Plaza, a series of East Hartford residents on Friday praised town government’s progress toward acquiring the property through eminent domain. A town panel voted unanimously Thursday night to pursue seizing the...
Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

Former New Haven Coliseum site to begin new life as ‘Square 10’

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized

Fifteen years after the city imploded the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, construction of the first of three buildings in Phase 1 of the site’s redevelopment — to be known as “Square 10” — is about to begin, Mayor Justin Elicker and the...
Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

Danbury’s west side school of the future requires a return to the zoning of 40 years ago

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized

The latest stop on the city’s journey to build a $164 million upper school of the future on a hilltop overlooking Kenosia Avenue is to go back to the way zoning was 40 years ago when the biggest thing on the west side was the Danbury Fair. Before the city can retrofit...
Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

CT’s riverfronts increasingly seen as major economic development opportunities

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

Once used as open sewers for manufacturing spoils and human waste, Connecticut’s long-abused rivers have recovered much of their past allure following stricter environmental laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s, accompanied by the retreat of large-scale manufacturing...
Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

CRDA in serious talks with global sports, entertainment company on multimillion-dollar XL Center investment

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

CRDA Executive Director Michael Freimuth recently told his board — which oversees the XL Center on behalf of the city of Hartford — that Oak View Group (OVG) is interested in a deal that could see the company putting much of its own funding into the XL Center. OVG...
Seeking fresh start for a failing section of town, East Hartford on verge of seizing rundown Silver Lane Plaza

Proposed mixed use zone could lead to Trumbull Center apartments

by Joelyn Leon | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

A plan to renovate the shopping plaza, which now has multiple vacant storefronts, including one previously occupied by Starbucks, and another that formerly housed Porricelli’s Food Mart, has received support from many of the businesses that currently occupy Trumbull...
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