District New Haven the hip Elm City coworking space founded by serial entrepreneur David Salinas is eyeing a new location in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood.
Salinas is a partner in a much broader $242 million public-private redevelopment plan to create a Parkville Arts & Innovation District.
Hartford-based nonprofit reSET announced that 10 Connecticut-based startups are joining its 2022 Impact Accelerator program.
The nonprofit based in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood is a business support organization. The group will work with the 10 startups for three months to accelerate their business growth. Participants are given access to reSET’s coworking space on Park Street during the program.
Brittany and Justin Bedard sipped drinks at the bar inside the Parkville Market shortly after 2 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, killing time before heading to an appointment at nearby Witchhouse Tattoo for romantic body art.
The Bedards, both 30, live in Manchester and run small businesses. Together and separately they’ve repeatedly visited Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood to stop at the market, an alternative arts center, a brewery or to enjoy recreational ax throwing.
The quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) in recent years has converted run-down Hartford office buildings into about 2,500 new apartment units. Michael Freimuth and Suzanne Hopgood have led those efforts.
Both Freimuth, executive director of CRDA, and Hopgood, chair of its board of directors, stepped into leadership roles at the economic development agency with backing from former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The state legislature created the agency in 2010.