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Mayoral Race 2015
We also work with CRDA to make sure other
issues are addressed, such as policing, other
essential city services and improving education
to make it more desirable for people to live here.
We also are working to expand that work to
other areas of the city because right now the
boundaries of CRDA's work is limited by statute
to downtown. I'd like to expand it to the south
and to the north. I have no problem with the
district expanding outside of Hartford as well.
How will you grow the momentum in
downtown brought by the new housing
developments and projects like Front
Street?
We will continue to advocate for arts and
culture. Arts is important to the city. I've also
been a supporter of sports and sports venues.
I've worked hard to bring USA Gymnastics into
the city; in the five years I've been here, they've
come to the city twice. We also will work hard
to bring other sporting events, such college
basketball and UConn hockey. I want to see it
expanded. I want to see volleyball. I want to
see soccer. We have the right population to
attract those sports to this market.
Job growth is also important. All these
things are connected. You can't have the job
growth without the housing.
What's your opinion of the Downtown
North development, including the new
baseball stadium?
When I became mayor, I was always pissed
off you had all these surface parking lots over
there and then you had this building — the Butt
Ugly Building — that basically said 'Do not enter.'
The area became more disconnected from
the urban core when the neighborhoods used
to have some fluidity to them. Urban planners
always have been very insistent that we recon-
nect that area to downtown.
More than a year ago, we were approached
by the New Britain Rock Cats saying they
had researched the market and that this was
a good market for them. They were having
some pre-existing issues with New Britain,
and they wanted out. If it wasn't Hartford, it
was going to be somewhere else in the state
or somewhere out of the state.
We started doing research, and I visited
other cities that had downtown stadiums.
I found the closer these stadiums were to
downtown, the more economic development
came around them.
We were able to get $350 million in pri-
vate investment to transform this into a new
neighborhood. Now we must make sure the
benefits that are intended for the community
are monitored, enforced and realized. n
