The buyers of the former University of Connecticut satellite campus in West Hartford have forwarded several possible design schemes for the 57-acre property, predominantly focusing on a mix of multifamily housing, retail, restaurants, medical office, research space and a neighborhood market.
Plans also call for walking trails and public park space. The development site is composed of two properties on opposite sides of the intersection of Trout Brook Drive and Asylum Avenue, 1700 and 1800 Asylum Ave. One already hosts several ball fields.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, describes demolition by neglect as when a “property owner intentionally allows a historic property to suffer severe deterioration, potentially beyond the point of repair.”Is.