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Focus on Hartford, January 2004 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 Connecticut’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). ALL PHOTOGRAPHY: KAREN O’MAXFIELD US AIRWAYS Attaché ★ J ANUARY 2004 59 HARTFORD / NEW ENGLAND’S RISING STAR CAPITAL GAINS 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, Massachusetts. 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 RICHNESS OF ITS HISTORY 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 , DIVERSITY OF ITS CULTURE 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- AND THE STRENGTH OF ITS PEOPLE #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 Wadsworth Atheneum, 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 Boston, 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. Connecticut river 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. greater hartford is an entertainment, meetings & conventions, travel, and business center Ask for John Shemo, Vice President and Director of Economic Development, MetroHartford Alliance. 60 US AIRWAYS Attaché ★ J ANUARY 2004 HARTFORD / NEW ENGLAND’S RISING STAR 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.
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