HARTFORD / NEW ENGLAND’S RISING STAR focus on Hartford Capital Gains Hartford is revitalizing its status as the gateway to New England

by Bob Woods

“I think this is the best built and the handsomest town I have ever seen,” wrote the well-traveled Mark Twain of Hartford a few years before moving to the city in 1871 and building a whimsical mansion on Farmington Avenue. The famously mustachioed man of letters must have taken great comfort in ’s capital, the state capitol for it was here that he produced Bushnell Park provides a lovely and inviting contrast some of his best works. to the grand architecture of the building (1878).

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Hartford, like Twain’s inimitable writings, has Airport recently opened a new terminal and since withstood the test of time and remains concourse. All this activity naturally creates GOINGS ON inspiring and entertaining, as well as sturdy and more jobs. METRO handsome. Today, in the spirit of Tom Sawyer’s The improvements at Capital Community fence-painting exploits, the city is getting a fresh College exemplify ongoing enhancements of the Hartford is a gold mine of coat of rejuvenation. Everywhere you look, from region’s so-called Knowledge Corridor, which history, arts, and culture. the ambitious Adriaen’s Landing building project stretches north to Springfield, . It The area offers a wide downtown to the new season of Broadway plays comprises 32 higher-education institutions, variety of sights, sounds, at The Bushnell, Hartford is teeming with life. among them the University of Hartford and and tastes that mix the “We really are in the throes of a renaissance,”says Trinity College, and serves more than 120,000 past with the present. Harry H. Freeman, Executive Director of the students. There are educational programs to pro- HARTFORD. city’s Economic Development Commission. mote work-force development, marketing ven- What seems to be tures to attract certain ART FOR ALL the key to Hartford’s industries and a unit- rebirth is that its deep ed boost to tourism one smart move. A roots as a Northeast under the Knowledge IHESO T HISTORY ITS OF RICHNESS commercial, manufac- Corridor umbrella. turing and cultural “Universities, colleges, center never really and medical centers Festival of Lights on died. They withered play larger and larger Constitution Plaza some as the city’s roles in the civic life economy struggled outside their institu- along with that of tions,” says University other industrial hubs of Hartford President ,

IEST FISCULTURE ITS OF DIVERSITY in the mid 20th cen- Walter Harrison. tury, but Hartford’s After work and

AND THE STRENGTH OF ITS PEOPLE infrastructure stayed school, there are abun- , intact. So while the dant playtime oppor- addition of a conven- tunities in Hartford, The Amistad is a favorite    spot for tourists tion center and a col- too. “We have an smart for business. smart for life. lege football stadium amazing diversity of #1 in gross domestic certainly strengthens quality cultural ac- product per capita in A place of genius is what some are its core, making people tivities here,” says Ken the world calling us. Where the pioneers and

, aware of what’s al- Kahn, Executive Direc- N H TEGHO T PEOPLE ITS OF STRENGTH THE AND #2 in labor productivity ready in and around tor of the Greater in the world innovators of the past are joined

DIVERSITY OF ITS CULTURE Hartford is driving stegosaurus Hartford Arts Council. , with the highly educated and much of the revitaliza- He points to art at the #3 in readiness for the Burr Mall Downtown tion effort. sculpture , knowledge based new productive workforce of today. A volunteer for the economy in the nation Hartford Blooms project The robin is Connecticut’s official state bird, plays at the Hartford Stage, films at Trinity though the crane—of the construction vari- College, and music of every variety at venues #5 in attracting venture All in one region. ety––might as well be Hartford’s nowadays. citywide. capital in the nation Besides Adriaen’s Landing, featuring the largest The Arts Council is one of 10 local organiza- top 6% of North METRO HARTFORD. convention facility between New York and tions collaborating on the Hartford Image American regions , a 400-room Marriott hotel and a resi- Project, implemented two years ago to raise for the arts RICHNESS OF ITS HISTORY dential, retail and entertainment district, other awareness of the region’s offerings among resi- the next move A downtown projects include sprucing up the dents and visitors. “I guess we’ll call it ‘eclectic,’” www.metrohartford.com is yours. front and the relocation of Twain once remarked in trying to describe

Atrium at the Capital Community College. New housing devel- his odd manse on Farmington Avenue. He Goodwin Hotel For more information, email opments are sprouting up in the surrounding could easily use the same word to characterize [email protected] or call towns, and ever-growing Bradley International present-day Hartford. 1.860.525.4451, ext. 284 today.

is an entertainment, meetings & conventions, travel, and business center Ask for John Shemo, Vice President and Director of Economic Development, MetroHartford Alliance.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT If you believe that happiness is a way of traveling through life, Feet on the Street: miles north, Bradley International Airport has a City’s Renaissance expanded with a $200 million state-of-the-art Have we got an airport for you. BIZ NOTES by Leonard Felson terminal to accommodate growing passenger and cargo traffic. In many ways, Hartford, Connecticut, 10 Why all the new interest in Hartford? Doings years ago–even a few years ago–resembled many Adriaen’s Landing and the state’s financial old industrial Northern cities whose economic commitment partly explain why other private Downtown base had long moved South, offshore or become developers are investing in new projects, as they victim to the corporate takeovers of the late ’80s sense new opportunities in a region of the ❶ Hartford, Connecticut’s bustling and early ’90s. And yet civic leaders never Northeast where older buildings and land are a Capital City is the economic stopped talking about ways to reinvigorate a city relative bargain. Another reason is that a two- cultural anchor of southern New England. that at the turn of the last century was one of the decades long effort to restore access to the most robust centers of commerce in the United Connecticut River, blocked for decades by a ❷ Hartford is building an entirely new array of facilities, amenities, States. Study after study was commissioned. flood-control dike and I-91, has finally come to and attractions at the stunning Ambitious projects were proposed. Nothing got fruition with promenades, parks, an amphithe- Connecticut river front. done. Until now. ater for concerts, and a plaza that connects the ❸ Hartford’s new 550,000-square- Hartford’s time has finally arrived as more river front to downtown. As a result, the nearly foot Connecticut Convention than $2 billion in new developments are under- $60 million spent so far on river front projects Center is scheduled to open way or about to break ground throughout this have not only recaptured a natural and cultural in 2005. 800-square-mile, southern–New England metro- asset—once literally the gateway to the city—but ❹ Adriaen’s Landing, Hartford’s new river front convention politan region of more than 850,000. (Hartford they’ve also given acres of nearby land, used as destination will include shops, itself, Connecticut’s capital, is a compact city of parking lots, new value as waterfront property, restaurants, and entertainment 18.5 square miles with 122,000 population.) and developers are rushing to capitalize on it. in the heart of an authentic The most dramatic project along the banks of New England downtown. the Connecticut River is Adriaen’s Landing ❺ Hartford's restaurants sizzle with (named for a Dutch explorer). It’s the center- authentic ambiance and diverse cuisine, including American, piece of a state initiative led by Connecticut’s Irish, Brazilian, Afghan, Cajun, Gov. John G. Rowland who pushed lawmakers to Italian, French, Puerto Rican, invest $770 million into a massive downtown Portuguese, Pan-Asian, development strategy. Scheduled to open next Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Vietnamese, and West Indian. year, it will include a convention center, hotel, ❻ Hartford's downtown and and a new urban neighborhood of street-level suburban corporate campuses shops, restaurants, and apartments, all designed are home to diverse businesses to put “feet on the street,”as one urban design- and industries. Financial services, er put it and create a more vibrant center city. aerospace and precision manufacturing, information But that only scratches the surface of technology, distribution and Hartford’s economic revitalization. logistics, and health and medical About 1,000 more downtown apartment industries are all thriving here. units in various stages of construction or planning are scheduled to open over the next few years. A new community college Designed by campus with more than 3,000 students opened on Main Street in 2002 in a George Keller, the restored art-deco building, known locally Soldiers and Sailors as the G. Fox Building, which once was Bradley International. The convenient gateway to New England. the department store to shop. Across the Memorial Arch Connecticut River in East Hartford, a was the first and largest Located minutes from Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, Bradley offers new 40,000-seat football stadium a new kind of air travel experience. Convenient. Stress-free. And easily accessible to many opened last summer for the University Civil War monument of Connecticut Huskies. It also destinations. Bradley lands you right in the heart of New England, with everything you need Playing the Blues— played host to two sold-out Bruce built in the U.S. for business or vacation travel within easy reach. So before you fly into Logan or LaGuardia, a Holmes Brother Springsteen concerts last fall. Fifteen consider Bradley. And take it easy on yourself. BDL www.bradleyairport.com

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The city’s economic development com- says the pub’s gutsy owner, Matthew Indeed, with a strategic location almost largest landholders in Connecticut, the mission was revamped two years ago to McKinnon Corey, a 40-year-old window equidistant to New York and Boston, at New Boston Fund, and Casle Corp., are The Colt be more business-friendly and to help cleaner of the city’s skyscrapers. Like the intersection of two major interstate preparing so-called shovel-ready sites that Firearms Factory streamline approval procedures at city hall. several other entrepreneurs, he’s betting highways, 20 minutes from a major airport already have been granted all necessary The dome atop the Colt Firearms Factory is one of Each of the past two years, the Hartford that once Hartford is transformed into a and within access of 100-million customers permits so prospective tenants can get fast- the most recognizable landmarks in Hartford’s Economic Development Commission has 7-day-a-week, 24-hour city his pub will within a 500-mile radius, metropolitan track service and be in new buildings with- skyline. Colt’s manufacturing facility opened in 1855 and is being renovated into 300 loft apartments. visited more than 2,000 businesses and become a thriving business and favorite Hartford is quietly becoming an attractive in months. about 150 new businesses have opened stop for new city dwellers. That kind of new address in which to do business. “There’s a new confidence here,” over that period. outlook is a sea change in this region that Just in the past year, for example, TJX says Sandra B. Johnson, vice president They include everything from new was hit hard by the recession of the ’90s, Companies, Inc., the corporate parent of and business-development officer for kitchen-design centers to light-industrial not to mention changing economic forces T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, broke ground on the MetroHartford Alliance, a regional factories; new restaurants and bars, even a over the past several decades. a 400,000-square-foot, $70-million distrib- economic-development organization that hip, new women’s-high-fashion shop called “People had really given up on the city,” ution center in the northwestern suburb of works closely with city business leaders as Fiona Stone behind the historic Goodwin says Freeman. “Now people see the cranes Bloomfield. Across the street, Pepperidge well as municipal officials in the 34 other Hotel that looks more like something out in the sky and say ‘They’re really doing it Farms opened a new 265,000-square- towns surrounding the capital. A dozen of New York’s Soho. It’s right down the this time.’ Firms are calling us.” foot bakery and distribution center. In years ago, metro Hartford didn’t even street from a trendy panini-and-wine To cite a few key examples, Cigna, the neighboring Windsor, just north of have a regional economic-development bistro called bin228 downtown. Last year, health care and financial-services company Hartford, Acumentrics, a fuel-cell maker, organization like Johnson’s, a vestige Mark Twain Days McKinnon’s Irish Pub opened across from with a large presence in the suburbs, is moving into a new hi-tech-factory space. of New England’s independent every- Celebration the Hartford Civic Center, a hulking nearly has moved 900 employees downtown. In Windsor Locks, next to Bradley airport, town-for-itself mentality that no longer empty mall downtown that’s about to be Also, Travelers Property Casualty, based Ford Motor Co., is opening a $10-million works effectively in a global economy. razed. In its place will rise a 32-story in Hartford, underwent a $35-million regional parts-distribution center. And in Which is another reason why the region is Free concerts, a frog-jumping contest, a Wild West Show, and a weekend of fun each July luxury apartment tower with new shops, renovation of one of its office buildings suburbs throughout metro Hartford, on the move, says Fred Carstensen, director celebrate Hartford’s favorite literary son. restaurants and a fitness center. downtown and will be merging with the St. several real estate and development of the Connecticut Center for Economic “I’m investing in the future of Hartford,” Paul Companies. firms, including Griffin Land, one of the Analysis. To be a competitive player in a

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artford, Connecticut has always liked a good story. After all, Mark Twain penned Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while residing in Hartford. And Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, also lived in Hartford. Of course, all of this was possible thanks to Noah Webster who compiled America’s first dictionary, and whose childhood home is located in West Hartford. These fascinating homes are open to the public for exploring chapters of historic fun. The fact is, Greater Hartford is America’s home for literature, art and history. And if we may brag, we think we did an extraordinary job in creating the first written Constitution.

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global economy, the region has to work as one line is beginning to catch the attention of com- DOYOUR RETIREMENT PLANS unit, he says. Indeed, he notes, when you add pany site selectors who are often for the first time ARTS ALIVE Springfield, Mass., just 30 minutes north of giving Hartford a look. MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE THIS? Hartford to the economic metro region, the Besides national brand names like those that population grows to about 1.6 million, “and that are based here, such as ESPN, Aetna, United The Bushnell gets you on the radar screen of relocation-site Technologies, and The Hartford, many businesses consultants.” are appreciating not only the city’s strategic loca- The Bushnell Take,for example, the recent relationship tion, but also its proximity to great leisure is Connecticut’s premier performing-arts center, Hartford had with Cirque du Soleil, the activities: two hours from some of the best skiing hosting more than 500 events Montreal-based circus company that performs on the East Coast; an hour from the shore, close a year to an annual audience across the globe. Last summer, for the first time enough to Boston and New York. They’re of more than 600,000 people. it chose Hartford for a also recognizing that The Bushnell is the FESTIVALS & ART performance home of: two-week run that its manageable size Hartford Symphony Orchestra extended into three can be an asset with Dance Connecticut weeks. It nearly sold commutes below the Connecticut Opera out each performance national average; af- The Connecticut Forum with ticket sales sec- fordable housing in Three-quarters of The Bushnell's yearly bookable dates are ond highest for any leafy suburbs and utilized by local arts and new market in North quaint New England community productions. America. One of the villages that are all The Bushnell provides leadership reasons the company close together. and technical assistance to chose Hartford was But civic boosters community and arts organizations, as well as rental because it saw a mar- will be the first to tell discounts of more than ket of actually 1.8 mil- you that Hartford $350,000 annually. lion people, not just itself boasts a surpris- In 2001, The Bushnell completed including Springfield, ing amount of arts and a $45 million expansion project but adding the New cultural offerings for that added a second, 907-seat theater to the existing historic Haven, Connecticut any city big or small. structure along with a great hall, Metro area as well, Places Rated Almanac expanded meeting and reception just 45 minutes south ranked metro Hartford spaces, and a gift shop and cafe. of Hartford. It also in the top 10 percent saw something else of North American many national retailers cities for the quality or already know: its dem- quantity of its arts and ographics and high festival of culture. That includes per capita income lev- everything from the RTHIS Wadsworth Atheneum O ? els are similar to other trees Hartford Symphony strong markets like New York, Los Angeles, to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the

IIGIN DINING Chicago, and Atlanta. Tony-award winning Hartford Stage Company Hartford boosters always touted what they and The and Museum. said were under-appreciated gems and resources. With the region’s financial-services and insur- But whether it was Yankee reserve or its inferior- ance companies as strong as they’ve ever been in B

USHNELL ity complex in the shadow of New York and recent years, manufacturing growing more efficient, SOUTH GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD Boston, that message never went far, even among Fred Carstensen says,“Compared to where we were residents who live here. That too is changing, five years ago, Hartford looks much healthier.”

P thanks to a two-year-old marketing campaign Peter Gioia, another economist with the ARK called “Hartford: New England’s Rising Star.”For Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the first time in the region’s history, all 10 agen- adds, “We’ve got construction cranes going up cies involved in the region’s revitalization are for the first time in a long time. That’s a bird that speaking with one voice and brand. And the tag almost looked extinct.”

places rated almanac lists hartford in the top ten percent of american cities for its arts and culture ©2003 The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

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REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Return of England city for so many years, that there’s ings, granite kitchen and bathroom coun- Greenberg recommended to inject new the Crane strong demand for downtown housing that tertops and stunning views. It also offers energy into downtown and put “feet on the Trinity College and by Leonard Felson caters to young professionals and empty something else hard to come by in cities like street,” as one urban planner describes one The Learning Corridor nesters who enjoy being close to work and Boston and New York: much lower rents— of Greenberg’s goals. With more than a dozen residential and the vast array of culture here. ranging from $815 to $2,045. That concept already is paying dividends Next door to the Trinity Campus are 4 public schools on 16 acres who opened their commercial real-estate projects underway But the development is not limited to Those rates—what the market com- elsewhere. The art-deco G. Fox building, a doors in September 2000, a centerpiece of or about to break ground, Hartford is on Hartford itself, an area of only 18.5 square mands here—normally would discourage former 300,000-square-foot Main Street community revitalization. the brink of a real-estate boom. As more miles with a population of 122,000. Indeed, most developers from even considering department store, opened in 2002 as a ren- people move downtown, urban experts say, new real-estate projects—both commercial Hartford, but through state funding and the ovated downtown campus for Capital new commercial development will follow, and residential—extend throughout the use of tax credits—in this case, credits for Community College. Today, more than and that in turn could spur more residential metro region of close to one-million people preserving an historic art deco building— 3,000 students walk through its doors, and growth. in about 800 square miles. developers are finding ways to make the into nearby shops and restaurants. Another What spurred the rush to develop? In Last fall, the first new apartment build- math work. former Main Street department-store build- part, it was a $700-million investment by ing, “55 On The Park,” opened, renting Less than a block away, also facing ing, the Sage-Allen, is about to be renovat- Connecticut officials who put their weight quickly. “The excitement is incredible,”says Bushnell Park, a nine-story 88-unit apart- ed as well, but into a 125-unit apartment behind construction of Adriaen’s Landing, Fran DeMaio of New Haven, Connecticut– ment building called Trumbull Centre is complex that will include units for graduate a complex that includes a convention based College Street, LLC, which developed under construction. Occupancy is sched- students and corporate interns as well as center, Marriott hotel and new urban the project. Among those renting the one- uled for next year. Bounded by the Lewis market-rate housing for the general public. Constitution neighborhood of shops, restaurants, and and two-bedroom units were state employ- Street historic district, the project also Yet those projects alone don’t begin to Plaza apartments. It also was the near completion ees who work nearby, lawyers from nearby includes the restoration of about a dozen describe the kind of transformation that of a pedestrian-friendly river front that for downtown high-rises, and empty nesters other existing apartments in three residen- Hartford is poised to realize in the next the first time in 60 years links the city to the from the suburbs. A 12-story former tial buildings that date from the 19th and few years. The nation’s first written constitution was drawn up in Hartford in 1639. This plaza was the result of Connecticut River. And, say real-estate Southern New England Telephone Co. early 20th centuries. Street-level shops and At the corner of Trumbull and Asylum a major renovation push downtown. developers, it’s the fact that there’s been so building that faces Bushnell Park, the new a restaurant will open into an outdoor streets, arguably the heart of the city, little construction in this southern–New 124-unit apartments features 16-foot ceil- pocket cafe facing the park, all features that Boston-based Northland Investment Corp.,

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will soon begin work on one of the corner- Colt’s industrial might—is also being Webster’s first dictionary. It would include DID YOU stones of a $700-million state-sponsored considered by Congress as a national park more than 200,000 square feet of shops, strategy to revitalize downtown, the trans- that would be showcased in two museums restaurants and a Cineplex, 72,000 square KNOW? formation of the aging Hartford Civic on the site. That would also make the spot a feet of offices above the shops, and 100 Center Mall, a bunker-like structure that tourist destination, advocates of the park luxury apartments also atop the retail. ❶ Hartford’s Old State House failed as a retail draw. Instead, Northland is plan say. In Bloomfield, to Hartford’s north- is the oldest state house razing the structure and creating what it Big real-estate projects aren’t all that’s west, Cigna, the nationally known in America. bills as a 24-hour neighborhood of apart- new in the city. A new initiative from City employee benefits company, is developing ❷ The Bulkeley Bridge, completed in 1905, is the ments, shops, restaurants, and public spaces Hall is pushing an increase in homeowner- a championship golf course, 150 single- largest stone-arch bridge called Town Square. It includes a 36-story ship from 25 percent, the second lowest in family homes, 260 apartments, 200 of in the world. tower of 262 luxury apartments, 24-hour the , to 30 percent over the next which would be luxury units, a 275-room ❸ The Hartford Courant is the security, parking, an indoor swimming five years. And another program is encour- hotel and conference center, 2-million oldest continually published pool, and a health club. A mix of specialty aging new investments in neighborhoods. square feet of office space, and several newspaper in America. grocers, cafes and bakeries, boutiques, and Besides new hotels being developed in restaurants as part of a 600-acre redevel- ❹ The first children's magazine restaurants will fill 56,000 square feet along Hartford, national chains are building new opment project, called Gillette Ridge. was published in 1789 in Trumbull and Asylum streets, and another hotels throughout the region in part to And 10 miles east of Hartford in South Hartford, under the title “The Children's Magazine.” 93,000 square feet of office space will be accommodate the demand for rooms once Windsor, developers are at work on ❺ In 1791, the first law book available as well. the Connecticut Convention Center is built. Evergreen Walk, a so-called “lifestyle containing the federal laws “This is a tower that would stand out in And yet there’s still more; West center,” which will include 14 stores occu- of the country was published Boston or New York,” says Northland CEO Hartford’s center, “the trendiest place in the pying 285,000 square feet. in Hartford. Larry Gottesdiener,“because in our opinion region,” according to one architect, is set to ❻ For more information on Greater Hartford, The first author to submit a that’s what people want here.” nearly double the amount of commercial typewritten manuscript to a visit hartford.com. Hartford Image Project Closer to the river front and walking dis- and residential property, if town officials publisher was then-Hartford- partners are dedicated to expanding

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