East Hartford’s Founders Plaza eyed for major mixed-use redevelopment

East Hartford’s Founders Plaza eyed for major mixed-use redevelopment

The town’s economic-development arm is searching for a developer for an ambitious plan to convert the area surrounding the half-century-old Founders Plaza office tower on Pitkin Street into a mixed-use residential-retail center with up to 2,000 new apartment units. East Hartford’s development-services department this year collaborated with the building’s landlord, Merchants 99-111 Founders LLC, the quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) and Hartford’s Tecton Architects on conceptual plans geared toward making Founders Plaza a “live, work, play destination,” something the town largely lacks now.

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