Who Wants to be a Real Estate Developer?

The City of Hartford is seeking development proposals for 8 city-owned blocks of property. The sale overview notes that the goal is to develop and/or revitalize the properties in accordance with the guiding principles of the One City, One Plan planning document. We’re excited that the City is taking steps to get these parcels into the hands of developers. If all goes according to plan, the future projects will not only improve the various neighborhoods,

Historic Elizabeth Park Defaced

Earlier today, Elizabeth Park was the scene of handicraft hooliganism as scores of knit flowers, hearts, and other colorful shapes were strewn throughout the historic rose garden. There were no reports of injuries from the attack. The following pictures were taken in, and around, the rose garden pavilion. An organization called the Knitty Gritty Committee has claimed responsibility, boldly posting pictures of the attack in progress on their website. The KGC, with slogans like “Punks

Weekend Plans: Jan 29th 2011

My weekend plan is to shovel snow. Even if it isn’t actively precipitating, there’s still snow to move. This week it was slushy stuff the plow deposited at the bottom of the driveway when they came through the neighborhood on a second pass a few days after the most recent storm. And I guess I should have done a better job tunneling through the giant snow banks at the intersection since a good samaritan took

Levels of Awesomeness

We’ve already taken a look back at how the real estate markets did in 2010, but there’s another review we can do that is just as exciting. How did the local agents do? And more importantly (to us), how did we do compared to everyone else? Before going any further, we have to define the ground rules. We like to keep it simple. We look at sold dollar volume in the Connecticut Multiple Listing Service