Hartford Public Safety Complex Facade

Last week the Courant reported that the Hartford Safety Complex building on High Street in Downtown Hartford was approaching completion. The project has been been in the news over the years for the wrong reasons, the most noteworthy being that the main facade had to be taken down rather than preserved. Now that the project is basically done, how did the City and their team do putting it all back together? Does the Public Safety

293 Castlewood Drive, Bloomfield

This conveniently located townhouse-style condo is tucked away in a quiet community. The unit is light and bright with an open floor plan. It offers 2 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms over 1,544 square feet. The first floor offers a living room with fireplace and opens into the dining room. The kitchen has eat-in space, sliders to a deck, a vaulted ceiling and skylights. A half bath finishes off the first floor space. Upstairs there are

Strawberry Picking in Greater Hartford

Transcript Strawberry season has arrived, and we traveled to South Glastonbury to pick our first flat of the year. Bright sun and warm temperatures welcomed pickers to Carini’s Berry Farm on this June morning. Despite a heavy rainstorm the previous evening, with reports of hail, the fields were ready for harvesting. Large, sweet, berries filled the plants and eventually our flat. Carini’s is hoping for another two weeks of picking, and is keeping their fingers

I Am Not a Parasite

Dear Closing Attorney: I hadn’t met you before last Friday, but my client’s mortgage lender recommended that she use you because they have a “closed list” of attorneys they allow buyers to use. I understand this simplifies things for the bank because they can get you to follow certain processes which streamlines their operations. So she went with it. At the closing table you seemed nice enough, making the usual pleasantries and closing jokes as

May Contracts: The 2012 Spring Plateau

Hartford County real estate markets finished May with basically the same number of single-family deals as March and April. Looking at the chart below, one might think that the market has hit some sort of speed limit or something. Why haven’t we broken through the ceiling of about 750 deals per month? The only month on the chart with a higher total was April 2010, which was the deadline for collecting the Federal Home Buyer