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way, you maximize the crowd you bring in.
How will you grow the momentum in
downtown brought by the new housing
developments and projects like Front
Street?
That is bringing more businesses to the
city. I'm not just thinking about big business-
es but small businesses. As I said earlier, we
need to find more ways to support and pro-
vide incentives for small businesses and find
other ways to support them, even in the way
of licensing and inspection.
What's your opinion of the Downtown
North development, including the new
baseball stadium?
At the beginning, it wasn't presented well,
but from my spot on the council, I couldn't
look at it from that point of view. My job is
to untangle that mess and look for ways to
make it work. People forget that the stadium
is only $56 million of a $356 million project.
This is an opportunity for us to bring things
that people feel can bring them to Hartford.
We are going to have family-friendly events.
What must Hartford do to attract
more businesses?
I used to work for a health center. I was
a supervisor for a medical records depart-
ment, and we always used this term: root-
cause analysis. It means we need to get at
the bottom of what is causing a problem. I
would love for Hartford to look at our educa-
tion, because that is what brings businesses
in. I go back to a trip I took to Seattle, Wash.
The average person in Seattle has a master's
degree or more. That is why you have Micro-
soft, Boeing, Amazon and all these interest-
ing things happening in its borders.
In Hartford, 73 percent of our adults from
the age of 16 and up are functionally illiterate.
That means they have challenges reading ATM
machines and filling out job applications. How
can we attract when we are not able to provide
a workforce? That is important in Hartford.
Our children are very important to that; we
have to prepare our kids for college. Also, our
adult education is not up to par.
What should happen with the XL Center?
To be honest, there has to be better collab-
oration, now especially with the stadium and
what is happening at the convention center.
The people running those three things really
need to be sitting at the table together, so they
can maximize the attendance of their events.
For the proposed XL Center expansion, I am
hesitant because we have not been able to maxi-
mize what we have now. There has to be a bigger
effort of promoting and advertising and making
it relevant to the people [who live] in this city. n
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