5a Linden Place, Hartford

Welcome to your new townhome at the historic Linden community, steps from Downtown Hartford’s numerous amenities. The formal living room is a light, bright space with bay window, white washed brick, original fireplace and built-in shelving. Down the hall, the remodeled kitchen opens to the family room space with exposed brick wall. It also connects to the dining area, which walks out to a private porch, overlooking the community’s lovely garden space. A powder room

Visible Progress at 179 Allyn in Hartford

179 Allyn Apartments

Dakota Partners is in the process of rehabilitating the historic Judd & Root building at the corner of Allyn and High streets in Downtown Hartford into 63 one bedroom apartments over ground floor commercial space. The developer’s project page notes that tenants are expected to begin to move into the units in the summer of 2014. The above photo was taken on Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 and shows that work is well underway. Windows on

Positive Developments on the Plaza

Hartford's Consitution Plaza

Constitution Plaza is one of the centers of redevelopment in Downtown Hartford. A number of projects have been on the drawing board for years, and recently there seems to be signs that they will begin moving forward. The former hotel in the back right of the photo is slated to become apartments. Ken Gosselin, author of the Courant’s CT Property Line blog recently wrote about his encounter with the developer at the site after noticing

Learning from Portsmouth, NH

Market Square

We found Portsmouth to be a very interesting place. And as residents of an area trying to build the type of vibrancy that they seemed to already have, it was difficult not to compare and contrast Portsmouth with the Hartford area. For background, the City of Portsmouth proper is only 15.6 square miles and has a population of about 21,000. This is about the same geographic size as our municipalities, as the City of Hartford

Enjoying Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Lighthouse

Recently we went on a 4 day vacation to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I really knew nothing about Portsmouth when I booked our hotel stay in May. Just that I was kind of going out of my mind with work and that I would probably want a few days off when things typically slow down for us at the beginning of August. My requirements were that our vacation destination couldn’t be more than 3 hours away,