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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 ...

A Camden, N.J.-based firm has been selected as the preferred developer of the largest parking lot near the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford.

As a child growing up in Torrington in the 1960s, Elinor Carbone’s mother would warn her not to play in the Naugatuck River because of the waste pumped into it by area factories. “And she would know when we were in the river, because our white sneakers would come back orange or purple or whatever shade of contaminant was being dumped,” Carbone recalled.

As a child growing up in Torrington in the 1960s, Elinor Carbone’s mother would warn her not to play in the Naugatuck River because of the waste pumped into it by area factories. “And she would know when we were in the river, because our white sneakers would come back orange or purple or whatever shade of contaminant was being dumped,” Carbone recalled.