Category: Design
08
Dec
Zunner Building in Asylum Hill Receives Funding
by Kerri Ana Provost
1 Comment
The interior of the second and third floors have already gone through demolition and the first floor’s exterior façade is in process of being spruced...
20
Oct
Pedestrians and Cyclists to Retain Right to Use Flower Street
by Kerri Ana Provost
2 Comments
In late August there was an adjudicated regulatory hearing at the Connecticut Department of Transportation headquarters to decide whether or not Flower Street could be...
14
Aug
Access Activism Asylum Hill Community Construction Design Frog Hollow Hartford Quality of Life Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Deflowering Without Consent
by Kerri Ana Provost
20 Comments
Dissent from Neighborhood Not a single Hartford resident or business owner attending Monday’s special meeting of the Frog Hollow NRZ spoke in favor of the...
23
Jul
Public Hearing to Discuss Change in Billboard Regulations
by Kerri Ana Provost
No Comments
Right now those blinding electronic billboards can be no closer than 650 feet from the next one, but that may change. The Planning and Zoning...
23
May
Changes for Rooftop Garden’s Next Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
No Comments
The downpour had stopped only moments before. What were the odds that the VIPs, in their suits and heels, would step out onto a possibly...
04
Apr
Movement on Blight
by Kerri Ana Provost
5 Comments
One objective of the Livable & Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative is to crack down on blight. Still waiting for that crack.
02
Apr
A Tradition of Craft: Original, Reproduction, and Adaptation Furniture
by Kerri Ana Provost
No Comments
You don’t spray Pledge on 17th-century furniture. Instead, as tedious as it may be, you use a soft rag to remove dust. The Connecticut “Sunflower”...
16
Mar
Heavenly Progress
by Kerri Ana Provost
2 Comments
It was announced today that on top of the $150,000 of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, the proposed skatepark at Heaven has been...
13
Feb
Creative Spring at University of Hartford
by Kerri Ana Provost
No Comments
The Gregory Brothers, creators of the Auto-Tune the News series, will be at Wilde Auditorium on the University of Hartford campus on March 13th as...
11
Jan
Commentary Community Cultural Interest Design Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford Parks Transportation
iQuilt: Dotting i’s
by Kerri Ana Provost
17 Comments
As barrels of trash heaved into the pond in Bushnell Park remain there for nearly a week and as the water feature in the playground...