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In 1990, downtown’s Parkview Hilton — so named for the park just across Ford Street — was demolished to make way for ill-fated redevelopment, leaving a vast parking lot as its legacy for more than three decades. Now, the owner — Chase Enterprises — is exploring the potential for housing to replace at least some of that Hartford surface lot. If a project emerges, it could join plans for ...

Hartford is shaking off a bruising setback dealt by the pandemic, with momentum behind revitalization again picking up speed — some going so far as to say it is now poised to surpass levels prior to COVID-19. As the city heads into 2024, downtown apartment conversions near Bushnell Park, at 55 Elm St. — the former offices of the state’s Constitutional officers — and the firehouse on Pearl ...

Mayor Luke Bronin’s toughest challenge leading Hartford — pulling the city back from the brink of municipal bankruptcy — came in the early days of his administration and might get lost in two terms that were more recently dominated by a bruising, life-changing global pandemic. “It’s easy to forget — eight years on — just how severe and apparently insurmountable the fiscal crisis was,” Bronin ...

HARTFORD — Martin J. Kenny, a visionary developer whose quietly confident but tenacious pursuit of often difficult projects that brought thousands of new apartments to downtown Hartford and far beyond, died early Saturday. He was 67. Kenny suffered a heart attack, according to Chris Reilly, president of Lexington Partners, the development and management company founded by Kenny. “Marty was a ...

New federal courthouse sites in Hartford drawing sharp scrutiny, some opposition.