2022 Innovator: Carlos Mouta's expanding vision for Parkville creates regional draw for Hartford

When Carlos Mouta first arrived in Hartford at the age of 14, he wasn’t impressed.

“It was sad because I lived in a city that was probably bigger than Hartford,” he says. “We had a movie theater with a restaurant. When I came to the movie theater here, they had popcorn.”

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