Officials want to help create a place for the local Puerto Rican community to call home a place in the city’s North End that would preserve history and celebrate culture through programming and activities.
For decades, the area north of Hartford’s downtown was a sea of vacant and surface parking lots dividing the city center from neighborhoods to the north.
“It sat there like a wound in the city for decades,” Mayor Luke Bronin said Wednesday, during a press conference celebrating a $6.3 million state grant for a project closing a portion of that wound.
The redevelopment of a long-blighted corner northwest of Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford is expanding in scope to include two neighboring historic buildings.