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Civic Center Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedReinhabitedRetrofit builtHartford, CT

Opened 1974. Redeveloped · Reinhabited in 2006. · from the fields below

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Ownership
Public bodyThis site: Northland Investment Corporation, the State of Connecticut, the City of Hartford, and Aetna county-parcels · all sites with this
Place
15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this
200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 kmThis site: 530 units in 9 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this
30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent roadThis site: 167,200 on 84 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
Bike network nearbyThis site: 30 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this
Grocery within 800 mThis site: 3 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this
High inland flooding riskThis site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this
High natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)This site: Relatively High; inland flooding fema-nri · all sites with this
Interstate or freeway within 600 mThis site: 84 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this
National Register place within 500 mThis site: Widows' Home; Second Church of Christ nps-nrhp · all sites with this
Renter-majority tractThis site: 95% census-acs · all sites with this
Strategy
RedevelopedThis site: Reinhabitation: mixed use Redevelopment: residential arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
ReinhabitedThis site: Reinhabitation: mixed use Redevelopment: residential arcgis-webmap · all sites with this
New use
Entertainment and sportsThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
HousingThis site: Reinhabitation: mixed use Redevelopment: residential The project included a new 36-story residential tower with extraction · all sites with this
Mixed useThis site: Reinhabitation: mixed use Redevelopment: residential The project included a new 36- extraction · all sites with this
OfficeThis site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this
Retail (continued)This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

CT, Hartford: Civic Center Mall/ Hartford 21, 2006
• Reinhabitation: mixed use
• Redevelopment: residential

Now

StatusRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present)
StrategyRedeveloped · Reinhabitedauthors' map
New useshousing, retail, office, entertainmentextracted, unreviewed
What is there nowReinhabitation: mixed use Redevelopment: residentialauthors' map
Retrofit year2006authors' map
RedeveloperNorthland Investment Corporation, the State of Connecticut, the City of Hartford, and Aetnaextracted, unreviewed

Planning

Planning notesThe project included a new 36-story residential tower with 262 luxury apartments.extracted, unreviewed

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Civic Center Mall” and “Hartford” (2 hits, first 2 sampled, 1 other filers such as tenants left out). Only weak matches to commercial-mortgage trusts: the mall may have backed a securitised loan, or may just be mentioned in the filing; several trusts usually means one loan split into pari-passu notes. Earliest trust filing in the sample 2001-12-12 (a sample date, not the issuance date); Whether the loan is still in the pool, in special servicing or repaid is in the trust's monthly distribution reports, which are not searchable here. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

KindFilerFilingsDatesForms
CMBS trust (weak)CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP12001-12-12 to 2001-12-128-K 1

Site context

FEMA flood zoneno NFHL polygon at point (unmapped or outside coverage)FEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m44: 88 ALLYN LLC; AUTO BODY SUPPLIES AND PAINTS; BEACH T B JR INC; CITY PLACE II; CONSTANTINOS CONSTANTINOUEPA FRS
Census tract 091105021003,113 people, 3,603 per sq mi; median household income $79,103; median gross rent $1,669; 95% renters; 19.0% vacant units; 7.8% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)6 of 6 daily needs: 3 grocers, 5 schools, 36 parks or playgrounds, 3 health, 14 civic, 44 food and drink; 30 cycleway segments, 525 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity ZonenoHUD
National Register places within 500 m15: Widows' Home; Second Church of Christ; Hartford Union Station; Charter Oak Bank BuildingNPS
Housing permits, Capitol Planning Region (CT), 20241,080 units in 5+ unit buildings, 70 in 2–4, 468 single-family; 2023: 1,351 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.57; socioeconomic 0.63; housing and transport 0.88; 18% below 150% of poverty; 16% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby0 within 10 km, 3 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Mapsno place match; building footprint 25,634 m², 17.997529983520508 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views49,163 since 2015; 4,409 in the last 12 months (-15% vs the prior 12); peak 2026-04 with 929Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively high overall (score 89.3); expected annual loss $3.4M; high: inland flooding; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km9 LIHTC properties, 530 units: Capitol Towers Apartments (144 units); Asylum Hill Ventures (76 units); Hollander Building (70 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 20233,119 establishments; 51,583 jobsCensus CBP
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)167,200 vehicles a day on 84 (Interstate, 7 lanes); 13,001 trucks; 39 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Hartford Civic Center / Hartford 21 on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

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History and original facts

Now called / also known asHartford 21
Opened1974Wikidata
Stores at peak50extracted, unreviewed
Original developerAetnaextracted, unreviewed
AnchorsLuettgen's Ltd
CountyCapitol Planning Region
Census division1 · New England

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Background

The Civic Center Mall, located in downtown Hartford, was a three level, enclosed shopping mall and office complex built in 1975 as part of a large downtown urban redevelopment project. It was previously the commercial portion of a four block square megastructure-type development, The Hartford Civic Center complex, which also contains a multi-purpose coliseum, an exhibition and trade show center, structured parking and a 330-room Sheraton hotel.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

  1. 1974 Opened (Wikidata)
  2. 1975 Built as part of downtown urban redevelopment project
  3. 1998 Aetna reported over $56 million loss on the project
  4. 2004 Redevelopment planning began with Northland, State, City, and Aetna
  5. 2006 Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit
  6. 2006 Redevelopment reached substantial completion

Sources

  • Wikipedia · supports: original developer
    5 quoted sentences
    Built and operated by the Hartford-based insurance company Aetna
    built in 1975 as part of a large downtown urban redevelopment project.
    By 1998 the project's viability was in doubt, and Aetna was stating that it had lost more than $56 million on the project since its opening.
    In 2004 Northland Investment Corporation, the State of Connecticut, the City of Hartford, and Aetna began working to redevelop the former Civic Center Mall complex.
  • Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

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