XL Center

Another national firm, this time an architecture and design company, has landed in Hartford with a new office downtown.

Full parking lots, long lines, traffic and crowded restaurants were just some of the welcomed annoyances in Hartford Thursday as the NCAA men's basketball tournament generated new energy downtown.

The XL Center isn't hosting a top seed in this week's NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in Hartford, but several high-profile teams, including last year's national champion, will be on display downtown.

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to use public-private partnerships to help finance Connecticut's vast infrastructure needs, including new train stations.

The popular NCAA men's basketball tournament is returning to its unlikely home in Hartford this March. Find out how the city scored the nationally acclaimed event.

Downtown Hartford's Red Roof Inn is being recast with a new name and major renovations that aim to upscale the venue into a boutique hotel, local officials said.

A pop-up brew pub will canvass Pratt Street in downtown Hartford later next month when the 2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament returns to the XL Center.

Owners of the Hartford Athletic say they are working to bring UConn and English Premier League soccer games to historic Dillon Stadium in 2019.

New York landlord Shelbourne Global Solutions LLC earlier this week added to its Hartford commercial realty empire by spending $4.8 million on a trio of buildings fronting downtown's underutilized Pratt Street corridor.

Local business executives are ponying up cash to underwrite a Hartford-based film about Willie Pep's boxing comeback. However, more funding is needed to get the movie off the ground.