HARTFORD 2010:

SUSTAINING THE CITY’S RENAISSANCE

--NEWS RELEASE---

 

(June 5, 2007)--- The City of Hartford and the MetroHartford Alliance presented the third and final phase of the Hartford 2010 initiative --- the blueprint to sustain the Capital City’s unprecedented growth and revitalization.  Hartford 2010 is “The Framework” that will build on and supplement the considerable accomplishments of the past five years by the City and the Alliance and is designed to attract additional private investment in the City to make the region more competitive in the global economy while providing a great place to live, work, and play for residents and visitors alike.

Mayor Eddie A. Perez says, “This is a plan that helps Hartford keep its momentum, create a potential 8,000 jobs and add to the growing vibrancy of our neighborhoods.”

Andy Besseette, Chairman of the Alliance says, “This will help attract additional private sector investment in the City.  Hartford 2010 is another example of the Hartford business community’s strong commitment to the great City of Hartford.”

The Framework reaches out to the City’s neighborhoods.  The focal points include:

• Downtown Convergence - A historic Main Street that looks and functions as the central “address” for Downtown.  This involves amplifying the physical hospitality of Main Street and invites more shopping, dining, tourism, and center city living. 
  
  
• Asylum Farmington – Seamlessly connecting Asylum/Farmington to Downtown and laying out – and absorbing significant regional demand for -- high-end office, retail, hotel and housing development. Involve stakeholders such as Aetna and The Hartford as well as the community in developing a vibrant mixed-use district that is tied to Union Station.
  
  
• Upper Albany - Civic and retail combined at the Woodland/Blue Hills Avenue blocks, to boost Caribbean-themed commercial revitalization of the Upper Albany Corridor, as well as revitalization in the adjoining neighborhoods.
  
  
• South Green - A high-image, multi-ethnic meeting place, to spur and link further investment on Park Street, in South Downtown, at Colt Gateway, for Hartford Hospital and more.     
  
  
• Terry Square - Bring the energy of highway access from the North Meadows to North Main to create a focus for economic development, with spin-off benefit for the length of North Main Street and Windsor Street.
  
  
• North Main - Regionally significant, mixed-use, high-density development, taking advantage of the area’s accessibility.

As presented, the Hartford 2010 framework reflects the entire community’s vision for a dynamic, livable, healthy, and economically vibrant Capital City.  It successfully builds on Hartford’s natural, economic, cultural, social and physical assets that include its compact Downtown, relationship to the Connecticut River, major educational institutions, transportation infrastructure, key employment concentrations, and energetic residential neighborhoods.  

For more information on the Hartford 2010 initiative, please visit www.hartfordinfo.org.

Sarah Barr
Director of Communications
Mayor Eddie A. Perez
860-522-4888, ext. 6217

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James Foye
Senior Director,
Communications & Marketing
MetroHartford Alliance
860-525-4451, ext. 269