New Apartment Complex Boosts Downtown Revitalization

0:00It's March 27. Hartford News Today starts, now, AI-powered and ready. Trinity Financial is building a new 120-unit mixed income apartment complex right next to the soon-to-open Windsor-Locks Railroad, station and Connecticut. The project includes 4,000 square feet of commercial space and will replace a rundown strip mall from the 1980s. The first space features a four-story building with 70 apartments costing $49 million total. The state is chipping in $12 million, $100,000 to help get it started. Local leaders see this as a big boost for downtown revitalization. They hope it creates a lively area where people can walk to shops, homes, and the train. This fits a pattern along the Hartford Line where new stations have led to more housing projects, like 151 units in Meriden and 72 in Berlin. The new $65 million station replaces an old basic platform and opens later this year,

1:00with the station as the key driver. Developers expect this to clean up a brownfield site and spark broader growth in a transit-friendly