This updated Dutch Colonial is conveniently located in the historic West End of Hartford. The home offers 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms over 2,016 square feet. A turned staircase in the open foyer greets you as you enter the home. The formal living room has a wood burning fireplace, built-in bookcases, and French doors that open to a screened-in side porch. The formal dining room has double built-in hutches with leaded glass doors. The remodeled
The City of Hartford’s budget is complicated – much more complicated than the budget of a typical municipality. Most Hartford residents, and many commentators, have only a vague sense of how money flows into and out of the City’s accounts. It is very difficult to have an effective conversation about spending when everyone has different perceptions about the numbers. The proposed baseball stadium is a perfect example. The rational way to approach this decision is
Yesterday a study originating from the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley began making the rounds through the media. Here is the full document. The report identified Hartford, CT as the city with the “Highest Incidence of Negative Equity” in the entire country. They found that 56% of Hartford homes are underwater, meaning that the owner owes more on their mortgage than the home is worth in
This well maintained Colonial is conveniently located in the historic West End. It offers 2,246 square feet, 4 bedrooms, and 1 full bathroom. The first level features an enclosed front porch, foyer, formal living room with a wood burning fireplace, formal dining room with a built-in china cabinet, and a large kitchen with eat-in space. The second floor has four bedrooms and a full bathroom. There is walk-up access to a spacious attic that has
On February 10th, the City of Hartford was announced as one of three American cities participating in the federal Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Challenge. The program is a competition, looking for proposals from the general public with economic development ideas. More specifically, entrants are intended to be multidiscipline teams working to bring “new perspectives to an entrenched set of problems.” The winning team will “develop a transformative economic development plan — one that establishes