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www.HartfordBusiness.com • December 11, 2017 • Hartford Business Journal 11 "You'd like to see something new and fresh … something conducive to the area to make people want to come" downtown, Risi said. Rex Fowler, CEO of the Hartford Commu- nity Loan Fund, which promotes neighbor- hood development and improvements, said, "our hope would be that new development wouldn't simply be a northward expansion of the current downtown development, but would represent thoughtful development that values local and regionally owned busi- nesses … along with the cultural assets of the adjacent Clay Arsenal and other North End neighborhoods." Apart from DoNo, Fowler said the fund is collaborating with the city to identify an ideal downtown location for a full-service supermarket. Another potential bidder Inner Circle's Hall said the Ormond Beach, Fla., hotel owner-operator has experience updating dozens of older hotel properties na- tionwide. It currently owns 13 hotels, mostly existing properties that it redeveloped. A legal dispute between Inner Circle and the contractor it hired to do millions of dol- lars in work to convert the Hartford Radis- son Hotel's upper floors into apartments was one of the reasons for the project's delayed completion date. Two floors of the project are complete, while other floors are in various stages of completion, most within six to eight weeks of wrapping up once additional private financing is in place. Inner Circle received $6.5 million from the Capital Region Development Authority for the housing conversion. It's unclear what impact the delay could have on the city's choice of Inner Circle as a potential DoNo developer, if the firm submits a bid. The RFP does require bidders to disclose any legal actions they've been involved in. It also requires bidders to disclose financial, bonding and insurance capacity. Hall said Inner Circle's DoNo concept could take several forms, but likely would create spaces for a pizza and/or sushi restaurant, possibly a dry cleaners. He also envisions more DoNo housing, with eight in 10 apartments and the rest condominiums. An industrial use or tenant would be the developer's least ideal, he said. "These would be for people who are now commuting downtown," Hall said. "That, in turn, would drive more retail demand." Centerplan approached Inner Circle early into its construction of the ballpark about partnering to convert the Radisson entirely to apartments. Centerplan offered, he said, to build Inner Circle a new hotel on one of the DoNo parcels. "We were already planning to convert rooms to apartments, so we didn't see where [Centerplan] was adding much value" to Inner Circle's plan for its Hartford asset, Hall said. Movers & Shakers Dr. Joe Trettel was recently named medical director of neuropsychiatry at the Hartford HealthCare Ayer Neuroscience Institute and is the only clinical neuropsychiatrist practicing in Connecticut, according to HHC. Neuropsychiatry merges the specialties of psychiatry and neurology and treats behavioral difficulties associated with a wide range of neurological conditions including stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Neuropsychiatry was officially certified as a subspecialty in 2006. Mark Maybury has been named to the newly created position of chief technology officer at New Britain-based Stanley Black & Decker, where he will form a team to work across the company's businesses and functions to advise and counsel management on technological threats and opportunities. Maybury joins the organization from The MITRE Corp., where he held a variety of strategic technology leadership roles over 27 years, most recently as vice president of intelligence portfolios. Alphonse J. Lariviere Jr. has been appointed president of Bloomfield-based Kaman Corp.'s distribution segment. Lariviere has served in various roles with Kaman since 2004, most recently as senior vice president- finance and administration of the distribution segment. Prior to Kaman, Lariviere served as vice president-global shared services at Garlock Sealing Technologies. Elizabeth Craun and Megan Brown were recently elected to the board of directors of Hartford-based Operation Fuel, a statewide nonprofit that provides emergency energy assistance year-round to lower-income working families and individuals, the elderly and disabled who are in financial crisis. Craun is the program manager for construction services at the Capitol Region Education Council and Brown is senior director of marketing and development for the Thames Valley Council for Community Action. Dr. Helen Perakis has joined St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery with St. Francis Medical Group. She is located in the Gengras Medical Office Building, 1000 Asylum Ave., Hartford. Perakis, board certified in otolaryngology and plastic surgery, completed a residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Ga., and a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her clinical interests include breast reconstruction, reduction and augmentation, body-contouring procedures, facial plastic surgeries (blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty), and skin cancer resections and reconstructions. Ryan Hanrahan has been named chief meteorologist at NBC Connecticut/ WVIT. He will deliver real-time weather forecasts for the station's weekday evening newscasts from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and at 11 p.m. Hanrahan joined NBC Connecticut in 2005 after studying atmospheric science in graduate school at SUNY Albany. Eric Boone has been hired as vice president of finance and operations at Wethersfield-based Qualidigm, a healthcare consulting company. Boone joins Qualidigm from the Hartford Parking Authority, where he served as CEO and led HPA's long-term strategy to foster economic and community development for the city. Fernando J. Muniz has been hired as CEO of Bloomfield-based Community Solutions Inc., a nonprofit that promotes self-reliance, responsibility and accountability for at-risk and disadvantaged youth and adults. He replaces Robert D. Pidgeon, who has retired. Muniz most recently was deputy commissioner for the state of Connecticut's Department of Children and Families (DCF). Rosemarie Zito has joined Pearce Real Estate's Wallingford regional office as a residential sales agent. Zito has many years of experience in the financial sector, as well as in small business. Phil Boyle has joined People's United Bank as director of the life and employee benefits division. Based in Hartford, Boyle brings more than 20 years of experience in the insurance and employee benefits arena and will be responsible for expanding the client and product base across the bank's footprint, and deepening client relationships. He was most recently with Connecture, where he was instrumental in the company's expansion into the Medicare market. Carol Sikora has been named a family adviser and director of community relations at River Ridge at Avon and The Village at Buckland Court in South Windsor, both Benchmark Senior Living communities offering independent and assisted living, memory care and short- term stays. Dr. Joe Trettel Mark Maybury Ryan Hanrahan Eric Boone Carol Sikora Rosemarie Zito Alphonse J. Lariviere Jr. A breakdown of the DoNo properties The city's RFP to develop mostly vacant land in the Downtown North sec- tion of Hartford around Dunkin' Donuts Park consists of four different parcels (shown above). Here's what they include: Parcel A It consists of 18 properties covering approximately 2.99 acres on Ann Uccello, High and Main streets. With the excep- tion of 220 High St., which contains a single-family home on the National Historic Registry, the parcels are vacant and consist of paved or graveled surfaces being used for parking. Parcel B Consists of 12 vacant properties total- ing 3.78 acres. The parcel consists entirely of surface parking lots currently managed by the Hartford Parking Authority. Parcel B has frontage along Pleasant Street, Main Street and Chapel Street North. Parcel C Consists of one property totaling 3.38 acres. It's a surface parking lot managed by the Hartford Parking Authority, which has frontage along Trumbull Street, Main Street and Morgan Street South. Parcel D It consists of one property totaling 2.95 acres located within the Con- necticut River Overlay. The property has frontage along Market, Trumbull and Pleasant streets. The parcel also has frontage on Windsor Street fac- ing Dunkin' Donuts Park, which is now closed to traffic. IMAGE | CONTRIBUTED