On Thursday, October 15, 2009 (tomorrow evening), real estate developer David Nyberg will be hosting a social hour, giving site tours of two Downtown Hartford projects, and participating in a roundtable discussion. I am coordinating the event through HYPE, and would like to extend an invitation to those outside of the HYPE membership to join us. Please RSVP to me (Kyle Bergquist) to register if you are interested in attending; seating is limited. Mr. Nyberg
The City of Hartford will be moving to single-stream recycling beginning the week of October 26th. After a successful 4,500 resident pilot program, the City has decided to expand the program to everyone living in a 6-family building or smaller. We were not part of the pilot program, and just received the formal notice of the change in the mail this weekend. In addition to making our recycling lives easier, the change also allows us
Have you seen the commercial for the Pocket Drawer? I look forward to watching each time it comes through the ad rotation on HGTV. For those not familiar with the product, it is basically a drawer mounted into the wall. From the company website, “it is 14 inches wide by 6 inches high by almost 5 inches deep.” The idea is perfect for marketing – it fills a plausible need (can take advantage of unused
The Lexicon is one of the new buildings in Blue Back Square, located at 75 Isham Road. The ground floor is retail, with offices on the upper three levels. Although I had been in the stores and restaurants on many occasions, I had not visited the lobby area that leads to the elevators until recently. There isn’t really that much to the lobby – it’s a relatively narrow corridor that leads to the center of
Putting up signs is a favorite hobby of West Hartford leaders and residents. Colorful campaign signs for the upcoming town elections have been spreading like wildfire throughout the neighborhoods. In the Center, the signs are more focused on announcing events. Here is a sampling… Note that the house tour event advertised on the final sign has already passed, and had passed when I photographed the sign earlier this week. Nevertheless, the Noah Webster House has