With 200 housing units completed and more under construction, Philadelphia-based Pennrose is asking Hartford officials for permission to modify plans for its “Village at Park River” development in the city’s North End.
The development is rising on nearly 40 acres at 1550 Albany Avenue that had housed the Westbrook Village public housing complex. The Hartford Housing Authority demolished the faltering complex to make way for redevelopment.
Pennrose, through its Boston office, is spearheading an ongoing mixed-use and mixed-income redevelopment.
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When Sami Abunasra acquired the former Puritan Furniture Store on New Britain Avenue in the Elmwood section of West Hartford in 2020, he originally planned to use the site only for furniture retail, as an addition to the Ashley HomeStore locations he owns and operates in Manchester and Newington.
But the longer he looked at plans for the address, and the more he spoke with town officials about how they would like to see the area develop, Abunasra came around to the idea of building a mixed-use residential and commercial project, in which his store would serve as a tenant.
The transit-oriented initiative is aimed at allowing denser projects than normally permitted elsewhere in town to take advantage of two busway stations on the corridor.
The City of Hartford is distributing thousands more COVID-19 at-home test kits and N95 masks to residents later this week. City officials said approximately.