Eric Polinsky News Today

A Meriden-based landlord has begun pre-demolition work on a vacant former Dwight housing co-op where it plans to build back 31 affordable apartments. …

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.