New Haven, Conn.: More Than Just Academics and Mozzarella

Abstract

The city's upswing is not citywide. Blighted blocks endure in neighborhoods like Dixwell and Dwight. But some of the city’s less affluent areas are also improving. ‘It's better here, by buckets,’ said Monika Mittelholzer, 61, a seven-year resident of Newhallville. The city is mostly flat. The Center Court Apartments, at 116 Court Street, for example, are now condos. In late May, buyers could choose among 86 homes. The former Winchester gun plant has added 158 apartments and was approved this spring for 287 more. It has been approved this year. A sprawling former gun plant, targeted for redevelopment for decades, has added 160 apartments and will join biotech offices. And Audubon Square, a phased project adding 464 rentals to several large parking lots, is being built by Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, which is also helming the 500-apartment redevelopment of the windswept site where the New Haven Coliseum once stood.