Sadly the city and state allow drug addicts and severely mentally to hang out around the green. It’s honestly a real drag on New Haven

FYI to all that Switches in Berlin is actually Whole Donut - same owners same donuts they just changed the name for whatever reason

West Hartford

Yeah probably need to place an order with them

So does hood culture

Contact Stonehedge in Newington

New Haven or somewhere in Fairfield County would be a far better and logical choice for a professional sports team than Hartford.

Hartford can barely exist as a city - it’s like 12 sq miles and relies entirely on the state of CT to fund tax revenue to it in order for it to continue existing.

New Haven on the other hand allows for access from central CT and Fairfield County, and it has Union station which could allow for a variety of mass transit to/from events. Alternatively, somewhere along the metro north line in Fairfield County would work.

Tying mass transit to a sports team / stadium is critical in a place like CT, as is locating the team in a city that is solvent / growing

Probably - most likely need state or federal funding which is tough to come by in CT. Feel like this is the case for a place like bridgeport and New Haven too wherever there are dilapidated old industrial buildings. We’re talking real estate within 2 hours of Manhattan - the entire area is economically worth redeveloping

Doubtful that anyone from MA would pull for a CT team over a Boston team. It would just be out of convenience - being closer to Hartford so they could attend games. And even then, everyone who’s been to hartford knows its infrastructure blows, traffic sucks, and the city isn’t a place you want to be.

Better to set up shop in New Haven or FFC along the train line. You’d get all the Hartford people anyways + the massive quantity of people living in FFC

Fairfield County could support a sports team. Connect it to the Metro North system and it would work out very well. Biggest issue here would be flights in/out for away teams, as they’d have to use a NY airport I’m guessing unless Tweed was workable.

Hartford County could not support a team nor is it viewed well by any league lol.

Westerly is so expensive now it’s crazy

If you want to decrease eversource costs in CT, then convince Vermont / New Hampshire to run new transmission lines down from Canada (they previously shot this down) so we can access cheap hydroproduction electricity.

Or convince New York / PA whatever states west of us shut down the natural gas pipeline that would’ve delivered us cheaper energy.

Sadly CT has little option to improve its situation

Were they trying to rob you when you got hit? That’s the playbook in ct —> steal car —> use it to commit crime

Will keep an eye out!

You are spot on. The area around Stamford station sucks

Nothing I’ve seen in Stamford is convenient - mostly trolleys for the harbor pt area. Either way - still don’t see that as an excuse to not build up more around our train stations

What is the hinterland?

Sounds like our cities are seeing greater interest - we should redevelop them so they’re actually attractive to talent and to employers

Exactly we need to increase the train speeds, and build up around Bridgeport / Norwalk / Stamford / New Haven stations.

These are great investments. An extra lane will do nothing for people who travel the busiest corridor of our state (and among the busiest in the country).

Yeah but the area around the train in Bridgeport isn’t economically thriving…the area around Stamford has some office buildings yes but otherwise you’d have to bring & ride a bike to get to the many other employers throughout the city (aka just drive instead), and idk enough about around the Norwalk station to comment.

We really need to do a better job building up / redeveloping around our stations

Did Hartford grow? I thought the stats I saw showed Hartford county stagnant while FFC grew

https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/powered-by-fairfield-county-ct-sees-slight-population-growth-in-2020-census

Large empty lot across the street. Projects like apartment building to the right across from the parking garage. Adjacent to the train is a parking garage and then a surface parking lot. Across from the surface lot is a police station lol.

The only place to get food is a tiny Dunkin’ Donuts inside the station and the tiny sbarro when it’s actually open, nothing available around the station.

The saddest part to me is that the now empty lot where church st projects were is evidently going to be developed by the same landlord who ran that project into a slum…and surprise there is zero development being done in this lot, in the station, or anywhere else around the station.

The website for that project has zero updates since mid last year, there is no construction or any visible progress whatsoever which is sad. Tearing down the Church St projects started in I believe 2018 and didn’t wrap up until like last year or 2021…pretty sure the same landlord who ran those decrepit projects has development rights to the empty land and surprise surprise…nothing is in progress.

This area should be an economic powerhouse for the state smh

https://unionstationnewhaven.com/

100% agree

I just think it’s pathetic / sad that there’s virtually zero development around Union Station - no restaurants, shops, office space. There’s The Towers a few streets over by the highway…

And asking people to take the bus around New Haven…most people will just drive. There’s enough parking, there’s only a few areas that truly feel walkable anyways, and people prefer transit on rail (like the T) vs a bus.

It speaks volumes IMO that Lego would rather move to Boston than to Hartford or New Haven. Frankly I don’t think Hartford is an option for any employer - virtually no employees regardless of age would like to work out of that city.

It’s sad that New Haven isn’t attractive enough to attract the young talent pool Lego is clearly going for

That’s actually a very reasonable, if not low, price