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Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin can tout a long list of economic development accomplishments as he stares down his final year in office, but he still has much to advance before he leaves City Hall.

In its meeting Monday, Hartford’s City Council will consider giving property and tax breaks enabling two developments in blighted areas north of the city center. City leaders propose to give four properties at the corner of Main and Ann Uccello Streets to a partnership of the nonprofit San Juan Center and apartments developer Carabetta Development LLC. Using these and four privately held properties, the partnership plans a $17.4 million project resulting in 43 apartments and 7,300 square feet ...

For decades, the area north of Hartford’s downtown was a sea of vacant and surface parking lots dividing the city center from neighborhoods to the north. “It sat there like a wound in the city for decades,” Mayor Luke Bronin said Wednesday, during a press conference celebrating a $6.3 million state grant for a project closing a portion of that wound.

The town of Windsor recently signed off on a $2.5 million state grant request, seeking support for a private redevelopment of a downtown strip mall into 100 apartments and ground-floor retail. Windsor officials expect the transit-oriented development to breathe new economic vitality into the downtown, providing housing for a growing workforce and taking full advantage of nearby passenger rail. It is one of 52 applications submitted to the state’s new Connecticut Communities Challenge Grant pro...