The new apartments near the Hartford sounds very promising. Defintely want to hear some more about that.

There are three empty highrises downtown. Office vacancy downtown is the highest of any city in the northeast. No one will go near financing this. Word from the people at Constitution Plaza is that this project is dead in the water.

FYI

The CEO of UTC whom you quoted before was actually Greg Hayes, the CFO, and that very same person was at a forum on the subject at UHart later on and was put face to face with Malloy. While he correctly framed his statement as most states are high cost and not competitive he ultimately praised Connecticuts workers ability to perform high end manufacturing like the businesses UTC is in. Also he said while CT has a long way to go, Malloy has been a lot more business friendly than past governors, and its a breath of fresh air.

all that is of course paraphrased but pretty accurate if memory serves.... google it

So, the the money guy at the biggest company (employer) in CT thinks things are getting better and that the Gov is more business friendly....
since he holds 14,000 high paying CT jobs in is hands, does your opinion matter? does mine matter? NOPE, but his does

The Republicans are not much better but the Democrats are absolutely irresponsible and Malloy has continued their war with business.

He passed the biggest tax increase in Connecticut history.
He actually increased the size f Connecticut state government.
He passed anti-small business health care mandates (the only one in the country).
He gave state unions a four year moratorium on any layoffs.
The Democratic legislature passed energy policies that made Connecticut uncompetitive with other states including the highest gas tax in America.
In 2008 they passed global warming rules that don't affect global warming and handcuff Connecticut businesses.

I mean, really, this stuff is insane. It is the most active anti-business agenda in the country. It has placed Connecticut last in the country in job creation. Companies are sprinting towards the border. Even the head of United Technologies has said the business climate is better anywhere but Connecticut. When UT talks, these idiots should listen.

These are the reason Hartford's vacancy rate is going up and not coming down. And it won't come down until these issues are addressed. I'm not saying there are no successes. But the trend is awful. The state needs to wake up or Hartford will turn into a ghost town and the rest of the state will follow.

I Like it, it fits in with their campus building.

http://www.ehworks.com/newsletter.php

The Goodwin College expansion continues with the CT River Academy Magnet High School, which just this month received Planning & Zoning approvals. This 480-student, environmental studies high school is to be constructed at 1-5 Riverside Drive, and will serve grades 9-12. Construction on this 103,000 sq. ft., 4-storey school is expected to start by October 2011 and should be completed by the summer of 2013.

click the link for photos. there is also info about the early child educations school they want to build on campus.

and the academy of advanced design and technology. another huge school for 400 pupils and 80,000 SF. I can only imagine that these buildings will also help Goodwin expand education programs and grow as a school!

Malloy has done more to curb the anti business lean in this state than anyone in a long time.

You guys are so damn party politic based that you loose the fact that our democratic gov is more pro business and more anti union than Republican Jodi Rell and Rowland.

How about in CT we just accept that we have good leaders, absent leaders and corrupt leaders. Right now we have one that seems to be one of the better leaders. He may be a democrat, but Ill tell ya he appears more conservative that Rell did, and its just rediculous to me that people need to winge about him because of his party affiliation. crap I hated Rell for being an ineffective waste of time. I liked Roland for being a big thinker, and I like Malloy for his attempts at shaking up the unions and their pensions and honestly trying to solve our long term financial issues(successful or not he has put in some solid effort that will bring long term benefits if not short term fixes)

I'm glad that the Gold Street area, which seems to be the most resolved element right now, is a top priority. I always thought that street needed to be straightened and aligned with Atheneum Square.

In the aerials below, notice how Gold street looks like a road running through a suburban office park. Notice the two odd pieces of useless land on opposite sides of the street. One parcel is the lawn next to Busnell Tower. The other is filled with boulders.

It looks like the concept would join these odd parcels into one rectangular shape.

What should be done with the rocks?

Would this be a good site for a farmer's market?
Gold street 1.jpg
Gold street 2.jpg