Category: Design
23
Apr
Heaven’s Final Design
by Kerri Ana Provost
9 Comments
At the same time as residents are being urged to accept a potential change to Pope Park or Colt Park that nobody seems to want...
03
Apr
Albany-Homestead Corridor: Whatever sticks
by Kerri Ana Provost
1 Comment
Having grown up in Hartford when there was an arcade on Main Street across from what is now the Capital Prep Magnet School, a man...
17
Dec
More Money from CL&P to Revitalize Buildings
by Kerri Ana Provost
1 Comment
NINA received funding from CL&P that would assist with the rehabilitation of a building in the Asylum Hill neighborhood. Sheldon Oak Central, a non-profit housing...
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.