Mayor Stewart Announces Mixed-Use Development Plans for Berkowitz Building

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 10, 2015 Mayor Stewart Announces Mixed-Use Development Plans for Berkowitz Building NEW BRITAIN—Mayor Erin E. Stewart announced today that a Hartford-based developer plans to purchase the long-vacant Berkowitz building and intends to turn the structure and several surrounding parcels into a development complex containing retail and housing. The City of New Britain owns the 24,552-square-foot-building, which…

OP-ED: Mayor Stewart’s First Year

It seems like yesterday. A year ago, I pledged to bring a new style of leadership to our city. To move New Britain forward, I promised to reach across party lines, restore fiscal sanity and do whatever I could to make New Britain a place we are proud to call home. I said I would never lie to the taxpayers. There would be no sugarcoating the realities we face. We would have to take bitter medicine now in order to make our city healthy over the long haul. So, a year later, how are we doing? Surely challenges remain, but much progress has been made.