For Haneef Nelson, Jazz Mondays at Black Eyed Sally's in downtown Hartford are about much more than money.
“Everyone wants to get back to performing,” said Nelson, who plays the trumpet and flugelhorn in a jazz quartet. “For us, the musicians, this isn’t just how we make money, this is our life. A large part of our life has been missing.”
Nelson was among a group of Hartford arts leaders who gathered Wednesday to celebrate the city’s cultural scene and plan for a windfall of federal pandemic aid designed to boost the arts.
The owners of hundreds of apartments in New Haven have purchased their first two properties in downtown Hartford, and they have plans to convert one of them a vacant, office building on Asylum Street into residential rentals.
The tallest mural in Connecticut, a 100-foot image of a young woman watering flowers, has been painted at the corner of Ann Uccello and Pearl streets in Hartford.
Grand on Ann apartments pioneered a wave of new rentals in downtown Hartford, but the building now faces foreclosure because of the pandemic courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The city of Hartford the city is seeking proposals for property it owns a block to the northwest of Dunkin' Donuts Park, aiming to further strengthen the connection between downtown and Hartford’s North End.