2010 Vision and Strategic Framework for Hartford
Hartford
The MetroHartford Alliance, a broadly-based business coalition working with the City of Hartford, retained Greenberg Consultants, in association with CBT Architects, to lead a team in 2006 in developing HARTFORD 2010: A Vision and Strategic Framework for the entire City of Hartford in its regional context. The Framework builds on the considerable accomplishments of past years to attract additional private investment in the City. It identified initiatives which advance this goal by leveraging Hartford's natural, economic, cultural, social and physical assets including its historic neighborhoods and relationship to the Connecticut River.
A centerpiece of this effort has been the Learning Corridor, a $100 million educational campus immediately east of the College and now in operation. The Learning Corridor contains an Inter-District Montessori School and Family Resource Center, a Neighborhood Public Middle School, a Math, Science and Technology Magnet High School Resource Center, the Greater Hartford Academy for the Arts, the Aetna Center for Families and a parking garage with ground level retail stores. The Master Plan integrated the educational campus with the surrounding community and positioned it as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. The Learning Corridor: Southside Institutions Neighbourhood Alliance Plan was the recipient of the 2000 American Planning Association Outstanding Planning Award for a Special Community Initiative.