Connecticut hotels were hard hit at the beginning of the pandemic. But a number of recent and upcoming openings indicate that the industry is now recovering.
The Hartford Hotel & Conference Center in East Hartford fell on hard times before its 2020 closure, with frequent visits by police and one online reviewer advising “avoid it like the plague.”
“It became very quickly a run-down property,” East Hartford Mayor Mike Walsh recalled. “You could rent the rooms by the hour, which was unfortunate.”
NEW HAVEN Fifteen years after the city imploded the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, construction of the first of three buildings in Phase 1 of the site's redevelopment to be known as "Square.