Hartford

Yesterday, we covered Trenton's very cool Trenton Ferry development. Today, it's Hartford's Hollander Center, a LEED-EB candidate that recently broke out the first green roof in Connecticut's capital city. Don't worry, this is still gbNYC, not gbTheCapitalCitiesOfOtherAdjacentStates, but when good green news happens in other cities, it's still worthy of mention. Especially when, as in the case of the Hollander Center, the project in question could represent a real step forward in a city that could use a boost. Hartford, like Trenton, is a moderately faded metropolis that already has the jobs, transit options, infrastructure and building stock in place for a green reinvention. So while the Hollander's green roof is lovely, the possibilty this project represents -- a sustainable revival in the heart of Hartford's seen-better-days downtown -- is even more exciting.