Champlin Packrite News Today

Hartford and seven other towns and cities awarded $36.5 million in grants to spur revitalization and job growth.

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin is asking the City Council to approve paying $2.1 million for a century-old, roughly 80,000-square-foot manufacturing building as part of a broad effort to revitalize the Parkville neighborhood.

There is a new push by city leaders in Hartford and the private sector to foster a 21st-century hotbed of startups in the city's Parkville neighborhood, particularly in advanced manufacturing and cost-saving technology for the insurance industry.