After hours of debate about what West Hartford should be in the future, town officials in a bipartisan vote cleared the way for 322 new apartments in five-story buildings on part of the former University of Connecticut campus in West Hartford. Creating new housing on the blighted 1700 Asylum Ave. property will be a massive boost for West Hartford overall, and ultimately will benefit the surrounding neighborhood, town councilors said after a six-hour hearing. The project would be the biggest development in West Hartford since Blue Back Square, and the 1700 Asylum parcel is only the first half of what’s planned. West Hartford 1 later this year is expected to apply for a wetlands permit to begin advancing the second half of Heritage Park, the 1800 Asylum Ave. parcel that’s on the western side of the old UConn campus.
Hundreds of apartments OK’d for former CT college campus amid massive pushback