Hartford Redevelopment
Agency (HRA) & Neighborhood
Development

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Redevelopment and Neighborhood Services

The Hartford Redevelopment Agency (HRA) establishes and manages Redevelopment Plans as means of eliminating blight and spurring investment in the city. To meet the goals for each plan, the HRA may purchase targeted properties through negotiated acquisitions or through the use of eminent domain. Following acquisition, properties are sold and redeveloped in accordance with the stated goals and objectives of each Plan.

The following Plans have been prepared and are currently being advanced through a statutorily required adoption process:

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE DOWNTOWN WEST SECTION II -UNION STATION/WALNUT STREET PROJECT - Jan 09

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CONSTITUTION PLAZA EAST PROJECT - Jan 09

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN DOWNTOWN NORTH PROJECT - Jan 09

PARKVILLE MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Mar 09

PARKVILLE MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, MAPS AND APPENDICES - Mar 09

Neighborhood Development

Neighborhood Development efforts center on providing assistance to developers and neighborhood groups to ensure that blighted and underutilized properties are renovated and put back to productive.

• Provide technical assistance with business plans

• Attract financing to projects.

Staff works to develop productive relationships between developers and community stakeholders. A major partner in our neighborhood development efforts is Hartford 2000. Hartford 2000 is a coalition of Neighborhood Revitalization Zone Committees (NRZ’s) in the City of Hartford who come together to share ideas, resources and information and to work cooperatively together to strengthen Hartford’s neighborhoods.

For more information on the work of the Hartford Redevelopment Agency and efforts to revitalize Hartford neighborhoods, click here.

Facade Improvement Program

The Façade Improvement Program, administered by the Department of Development Services: Planning Division is the City of Hartford’s primary commercial renovation program. The goal of the Program is to improve the storefronts of businesses on various neighborhood commercial streets and provide the impetus for further investment on these thoroughfares. To learn more about the Façade Improvement program and specification guidelines, click here