Where We Live: A Developing Situation

The recession hit downtown Hartford’s commercial real estate market hard. In 2009, nearly 760,000 square feet of space became vacant. Combine this with bankruptcies and foreclosures, with stalled projects and a down economy, and it’s tough to know what shape the capitol city’s in.

Today, Where We Live, a talk with a writer who covers development, a city official and a developer, who’ll talk about the prospects of corporations, retail shops and residents moving into Hartford, and what Hartford’s real estate troubles can tell us about the rest of the state.