Sandy Cloud Jr. is a well-known local lawyer and businessman whose firm, The Cloud Co. LLC, is currently co-redeveloping Hartford’s old, rundown Westbrook Village housing complex.
The Village at Park River complex will eventually include about 432 new rental housing units and homeownership opportunities and retail/commercial space in the city’s North End.
Over 100 units have been completed and tenants have moved in.
Cloud has also worked with Philadelphia realty developer Pennrose Properties on several mixed-use residential developments in Meriden and Torrington.
According to his bio, Cloud during his career played a major role in the development of the Upper Albany Shopping Center and Crown Gardens housing development in Hartford. He also led Aetna’s national Neighborhood Development Program in the 1980s, and oversaw investments exceeding $100 million, which transformed several urban neighborhoods across the country.
Cloud is also active in the community. He served two terms in the state Senate, became an Aetna executive and chaired or served on the boards of UConn Health, the Connecticut Health Foundation, Eversource and MetroHartford Alliance.