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more at okillct dot org. Nowhere's your host for Pulse of the Region,
Kate Allman. Hello, Hello,and welcome back to another episode of
Pulse of the Region. We arehere today at the iHeartMedia Studios at what
I love to call the Candy CaneBuilding in Hartford, and I'm here with
our guests in person. Everyone seemshappy We're having a great day, and

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today we are getting the pulse abouthappenings here in our capital city of Hartford,
from restaurants to destination locations. Thecity is absolutely bursting with energy and
a ton of expansion on the nearhorizon. So I'm thrilled to have our
guests on the show today, eachof who are really part of this growth
and part of this excitement happening herethroughout the city. So without further ado,

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I'd love to introduce our two guests. First is the CEO and founder
of Parkville Management. It is CarlosMuda. So Carlos, so happy to
have you here on the show today. Thank you, thank you very much.
I'm happy to be here, fantastic. And next is actually a return
guest. So luckily we didn't scarethem away too much on our first show,
but we have the owner of ParkvilleSounds, Stephen Kusano. So Stephen,

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welcome back to Pulse of the Region. Thank you for having me.
Happy to be back, Yeah,definitely, And we said the last time
we did at via phone, soit's nice to have you sitting here with
your smiling face in studio. Ilove being in the studio, so happy
to be here. Awesome, awesome, So certainly a lot to talk about
today. So but first things first, if we could do some brief introductions
or reintroductions, So Carlos, youknow a lot of people know Parkville Market

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and Parkville Management, but would loveif you don't mind kind of giving an
overview about the organization. Well,we've been doing this since nineteen eighty nine
and started buying small properties in Parkville. We lived in Parkville on Kiv Streets.
So soon after college I was startedinvesting in properties. And because I

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just I grew up here since Iwas fourteen, I went to Arfra High
so I just loved the area andjust I was a good investment, never
thinking that I would do much morethan a few a dozen units, not
even more nets. Oh my goodness. And now look at today kind of

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what does the footprint look like today? I don't even know. Which means
a lot, right, I mean, but it's exciting, you know,
And I just think I believe inHartford all he's dead, and I think
that what's going on in Hartford isvery very exciting, and you know,

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I believe that you know, MayorBronan had a lot to do this.
We're just you know, excited thateven though he's leaving the office, he's
still every day out there trying tomake things happen. That's what we need.
Yeah, next, we need somebodythat's kind of the cheerleader and figure
out what we need to do.So completely agree. And let's talk a

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little bit about Parkville Markets. Hopefullyall of our listeners have been there and
numerous times over, but anyone whohasn't been there, can you talk a
little bit just about what it isand the experience there? Oh park remarka.
It's uh, people don't know.We open in the middle of COVID.
Yeah, we open twenty twenty whenyou can even go inside, right,
So luckily we had the outside patio. It did that. But I

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mean never in my wildish dreams Iimagined that it would have this success,
right because I've been to many marketsaround the world and in the in the
US and you know, uh,and I love markets. So I built
this market for the neighborhood. Ididn't want it to be like a Fanniel

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hall. It's a terrorist trap.And so luckily the neighborhood embraced it and
the you know, and it's amazingand we have about twenty one vendors.
They're all kinds of foods from allover the world. And the upstairs of
the market was meant to be retailed, but we COVID. Those rooms were

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perfect for people to sit down.So it's kind of you know, I
guess, just luck, you know. But and now we slowly want to
convert the rooms upstairs to some moreretail because you know, we just don't
want it to be you know,food right, So and then I mean,
and I'm trying to make the foodmore healthier. We got now vendors

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there, but when COVID came,we were stuck, like we didn't have
a lot of choices right with toput in there. And so now we're
trying to be more in the healthyfood we have Florida Mart. It's completely
gluten free, okay, now,just trying to make it healthier choices Okay,
fantastic. So we'll talk more aboutthat, But Steven would love to

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get an overview from you about ParkvilleSounds and remind our listeners all the great
things you guys are doing. Yeah, so Parkville Sounds. We're been in
Hartford since twenty seventeen. We record, We have rehearsals and we do video
sessions inside our studio. I metCarlos back in twenty sixteen. I'm a
product of Connecticut, grew up inNew Haven, went to the Heart School

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of Music, and then once Igot hit to Parkville Market and I got
his phone number, I was justmind blown, so inspired by everything that
was happening in Parkville that I wantedto be a part of the mold.
So we opened up Parkville Sounds andever since then we've been just growing on
a daily basis. It seems wehave people coming into into our studio for

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weeks or four days at a time, and it's just it's fantastic. Yess
that is Oh my gosh, Ilove it. And now expansion is coming
and which is super exciting. Socan you talk more about what does this
look like? Yeah, with Carlosand I, we were able to get
the Heartlift grant, which is ableto help turn a property on Park Street

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eighteen hundred from a bakery to afull recording studio. So that's coming hopefully
at the end of the summer.Fantastic. So what is everything looking like
at this point? Now? Inthat space, it's fully done. We're
getting ready to prep the move.Okay, yeah, get the equipment in
there, get the soundproofing and justgetting it tight and getting it ready.

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Okay, this is incredible. Sowhat are the hopes kind of once opening,
how do you feel this will reallybe able to kind of expand and
the business and really expand the attractionover there. Yeah, so we're hoping
to get more national touring acts inthe studio. Right now, we have
people coming in like Alan Stone andDickey Betts from the Allen Brothers and they're
there for two weeks on end,getting hotels and going to park Film Market

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and when they're at their breaks andstuff. So we're excited to have more
space for bigger bands to come inand kind of set up shop for however
long they need. Okay, thisis very cool. This is very cool.
So and now, speaking of expansionis Parkville Market, Carlos, can
you talk a little bit on whatthe expansion kind of where things stand today

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and where things will hopefully be inthe near future. Sure, but I
want to say something to Stephen.Yes, they started in Parkville in fourteen
seventy seven in a basement. Thankyou for bringing us up. We need
to talk more about that. JustGrafitt with no windows, and I'm like,
you know, I'm very positive.I'm like, does this guy know
what he's doing? But I believe. I believed in him. My life

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is enthusiast being his excitement and bringingthe energy. So you know, like
a lot of my partners, Icall it then on my tenants, my
partners, I believe. Then Asent okay, let's do this. And
you know, from there he grewto another space on our street. And
and then when he wanted to expandmore or and I said, I don't

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have anything. Then I even tookhim to buy out the buildings. He
came back and the whole city.Yea, I said, okay, I
have this old bakery and that's it. That's it. That's his story.
So it's amazing. That is absolutelyincredible. See Stephen, you left all
those good stuff out that as wehonestly that that basement spot with no windows

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was a blessing. So that wasit was It was like it was it
was home. I mean, itwas amazing. Yeah, hey, no,
that's that is wonderful. I loveit. So but yeah, I
mean Parkville, so many things happeningall coming out of the basement a lot
of great things. So you haveto be in a basement before you go
to the boardroom. That's right,remember that, very true. You got

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to start in a basement, right. Yeah, we're in the boiler room,
I call it. Yeah, yeah, in the boiler room. I
like it. Well, boiler roomto the boardroom. There you go,
and then you appreciate the boar theboardroom, so, which is wonderful.
And with that too, Parkfole Market. What's next over there? Right now,
we're in construction for the big hallwhere ten thousand square feet we could

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host a lot of events like uhprobably we're still getting the numbers from the
fire department, but between five toseven hundred people. We can do weddings,
we can do all kinds of stuff. So we're doing the first floor
of thirteen ninety, which is rightnext to the market. Perfect doing so
if you're looking at the market fromthe street, it's to the right,

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correct, it's east of it,east next to the highway. Okay,
perfect, And we're doing that,and so we're excited. We're a little
delayed, but we hope to bringit online this year so we could have
bigger events. Nice Oh, that'sincredible. And then we're looking for we
have a brewery and wineries for theother building to the west, so when

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you comment on the ramp to thewest of it. So we will be
making a decision what we'll do bySeptember first, but we have multiple options,
just trying to see what's going toblend better with the market and everything
else. Parking familybody been there onSalsa night is insane, so that those

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are the nights that I uber justpurely so you don't have to park,
but makes it easier. The goodthing we're working with the city city has
been amazing. Like I said,Mayor Brunon, we're looking on Bartholome Avenue
to build a four under garage.Wow, and the fifty seven units.
The garage is going to be inthe back of the building that's going through

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console now and everything else. Sowe need I mean, our biggest detriment
like in Parkville is parking right,just not enough. And then we don't
even we haven't even opened the breweryor the winery let's say right in the
new event space where we're going toput all of these people, right,
so we're that's that's a much morewelcome thing that we need marking perfect.

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That's great and it's certainly too Thenwith all of the attractions coming over to
Parkville, sounds you know, wantto touch a little bit on you know,
really, Steven, it's it's adestination. You're talking national acts,
regional acts. I mean, whatdo you feel kind of the vibe is
coming from people who are coming intoto Parkville, into Hartford, and what's
their experience been? Like, Yeah, a lot of people that come here,
maybe our first timers, and they'relike, Wow, I didn't know

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about this place. This is amazing. Like there's a market down the street,
there's a studio here, and Idon't have to go anywhere. I
could just kind of be right herein Parkville. Um. So they come
and they are just um in aweof everything that we have done in the
city. So it's a great feelingto have a new artist come here who's
been to all these cities and belike, Wow, Hartford's got something going

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on here. This is cool.So a lot of what we do is
word of mouth. You know,a lot of people are just kind of
talking about us on the ground level, and our phone is constantly ringing,
so that's I love it. Ilove it, and I think fuel kind
of do. The energy in Parkvilleis really you know, kind of transmitting
throughout the entire city, which isincredible, and a lot of additional growth

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happening. Stephen. You mentioned theHeartlift program, which I can't remind people
about enough. We currently have ina partnership with the City of Hartford with
may Or Bronan Is we have sixtytwo new restaurants and retailers coming into the
City of Hartford, with twenty twoof them open as of today and the
others all in different phases of constructionor you know, in phases of opening.

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The same with Parkville sounds and sowith that is you know, Carlos,
I want to talk because you havea couple new ventures coming through as
some of the partnerships through Heartlift.So one I want to touch on though,
is forty five Main Street give usthe insight side of scoople what's happening
in America. I just want topick you back on, sorry a little
bit on like the Hartford, thevibe we're getting the people that come,

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like I have a new vendor atthe market is a taste of Portugal chefroy
is Okay, there's an article ofthem. He had the business in Greenwich,
a high end restaurant in Greenwich,Connecticut, granch Avenue, and and
he's at the marketing now and theother day he's just told me, oh
my god, the harfor is beautiful. I was on Main Street. He
got lost. Actually it goes.It's amazing. Harfy's beautiful, all these

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buildings. So that's the thing thatpeople that with Stephen saying, people that
come into Harford really love it.And I think I wish the people that've
been here for a long time wouldembrace as much as the new people.
Yes, because it is a fantasticcity. So it really is, you
said, just the buildings, thehistory, everything, and then you know,

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and then everything new popping up towhich is but within still the cool
vibe of what the city is.We need a great downtown, yes,
to have great neighborhoods. If wedon't have a great downtown, then it's
it's it's not you know, it'snot as because you know it will mushroom
kind of, it will blow upfrom the downtown on end and then from

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Parkville we can grow into the othernet Fragallo and stuff like that. Yes,
the park the capital of an areawhere uh where the ice cream placed
in the coffeeence. Yeah, storyand Soil and Soil, which are both
expanding as part of the Heart Leftas well, like I said, you

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know, and they're not too faraway from Parkville and they're not too far
away from downtown. Correct, Sogoing back to forty five main Sorry,
no, that's no. You teedit up nicely like expanding downtown. So
which is a piece you have arestaurant or I think it's going to kind
of be frenchy French food kind offrom forgot from what island is, but

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it's an island that used to bea French island. It is a French
island, Okay, in the Caribbean. So we've we had a delay in
it was from the state. Wehad put a brand new and they kept
elevator there and then we had toget state permission because the coach changed.
So we're now ready to go.We just got the final okay, So

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we're ready to go and we're excitedto have a new it's going to have
two levels upstairs and downstairs. Fantastic, It's going to be a cool place.
Okay, So do you have aslated opening day or still a little
bit TB day. Now we justfinally can do well, the downstairs almost
all built out. The kitchen isthere, so we just have to work
more upstairs to them with the upstairs. But I'd say probably ninety twenty twenty

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days. Okay, So that's hey, that's very very reasonable and very exciting.
Hoping for September, but we hopefor definitely. I'm hoping October time
too, because it's a good timeto open a business in that time of
the year, definitely leading into theholidays, and and also have a couple
other kind of establishments as part ofthe Heartlift program. So I believe in

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other restaurants at PuO Rico. Yep. That's okay, a perfect Okay,
Yeah, he opened that in uhPope Commons, which is right next to
uh to part of your market.We have a few more. We have
also Patrick Cafe. They're going tobe all about racing. That's in the
building fourteen twenty nine. Okay,Patrick Cafe. I think it's yeah,

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he is. It's all about racingstuff. Like you know, it's a
theme restaurant, but it's about likeracing, car racing, motorcycle racing,
that type of thing. Okay,oh all right, I like this Okay.
And then it's also too Jay ElizabethBeauty, I believe is also another
new retailer common. Yeah, that'sin the market, thinking in the market,

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Okay, retail perfect, perfect.So I'll lot of exciting stuff happening
there. And you know, Stephen, as we talk about all these new
businesses coming in, how do youfeel that really impacts you know, your
business specifically? You know what areyou seeing? Yeah? I think you
know what Carlos was saying is havinga strong nucleus of downtown. You know,
when the Hartford Civic Center is cooking. Um. You know, Lizzo

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her dancers come to our studio whenrehearse, when she comes to the Civic
centers. So having all businesses going, more events, more small music venues,
more businesses is good for all ofus. Um. So the stronger
um we are, you know,with our with just bringing more camaraderie to
the city, the better it isfor all of us. UM. So

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yeah, it definitely knows. Yousaid a lot of things happening, which
is great. And in addition toall everything happening, on the restaurant's retail
side expansions. We're seeing a loton the housing side too, and Carlos
would love for you to touch alittle bit on this. I'm kind of
just what are we seeing for someof the housing trends and potential growth here
in the city now. It's soexciting what's happening in downtown with all those

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empty parking lots being filled, thebuildings that the state used to be in
on Trinity Street and in the PulaskiCircle. I think that area, yes,
So I mean, the more weneed feet on the street. And
there's the the US as a crisisin housing connectic alone I read in the

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newspaper yesterday is eighty nine units shortand that's apartment's condos homes. So I
mean we need it, you know. And so you know, I think
they mentioned two thousand units more comingdowntown just and in Parkville, I'm working
on over three hundred units. Dotheir more units? So yeah, I

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mean we need it, and youknow, because the more units, the
more affordable be for everyone. Yes, And what I'm doing a lot of
my units are smaller units, bydoing micro units where somebody can come out
of college and go into a unitthat will have everything, even a bed.
All they have to do is bringa mattress and the linens and whatever,

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forks and knives, but everything elsewill be there. Okay, so
no no kitchen tables. So I'mtrying to innovate, and I'm incorporating all
utilities in the units. I'm incorporatingfree internet. So then they pay one
bill. That's it. I'm notnickeling diamond them saying fifteen dollars for water,
the ten dollars for this. Nowcome in pay one feet. You're

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done. That's great. So Imean, just trying to do something different.
I'm not reinventing the wheel. Thisis being done somewhere else. So
we just, you know, we'rejust trying to do different stuff right in
here. Because if somebody's successful,why can't we business. Lets I say,
I go to Brooklyn, I wasin Boston the other day. It's
like, why can't we have didthis year? That's what I do.

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I mean, I built the firstmicro apartment in Connecticut. Okay, spect
the mark. I didn't know there'sno atom microprovermance. I just my daughters
were going at friends in Boston andNew York and I say these tiny things,
say I could do this right,you know, why not hear this
and same thing to the market.Well, I don't want to. I
don't have to go to New Yorkor Philadelphia where I late to go to

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to America. I said, I'mgonna build my own right, and so
you know, and that's the thing. So being innovator, doing things different.
But yeah, the housing, housing, housing housing, yes, no,
more and more, and I thinkdowntown most recently I read was we're
at ninety three or ninety four percentoccupancy, so which is incredible. You
have more units coming online. They'rebeing filled, you know, almost immediately,

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which is wonderful to see. Andwhat are some of the trends you're
seeing on kind of who's moving into the house housing kind of demographics?
Is that people moving from Connecticut?Let's see, I'm actually one of these
people. I moved into one ofhis loss on fourteen seventy seven before we
opened the space in fourteen seventy andseven in the basement um we rented the

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student aloft and it had a washerand dryer and everything was included, and
it was it allowed me to starta business, grow a business and then
be able to buy a house fouror five years later. So that was
the greatest apartment I've ever lived.And everyone that came over is like,
well, this feels like you're inBrooklyn or New York or something like that.
This is hard for this, No, this is where it's at.

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And then you can take the elevatordownstairs, I mean go to a music
studio. So it was it wasyeah, exactly, yeah. So yeah,
the the the apartments that he iscreating, from micro to studios,
I mean he's got them all over. There's something for everyone, and yeah,
this is great. So Carlos,I'm gonna say, what's next?
But I guess kind of what's notnext, But I guess in the closer

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future, you know, kind ofwhat what else can we expect to say?
I mean I look at you know, hard for like downtown, I
mean the mayor Boston. The otherday we was talking about converting a lot
of these empty office buildings into apartments, and everyone stays, difficult, nothing
is easy. So but you know, if there's let's say, if there's

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ten buildings, if you can convertone, it's better than nothing. So
we need in sentence, we needto start, you know, converting these
empty buildings. I mean we havethe one off the highway on Signy Streets
far and forty three thousand square feet. It's empty. That's that's a crime,
right and the city is not benefitingfrom Texas and the building is empty.
You know, we we cannot allowthese buildings to just sit empty.

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If the person there owns that isnot doing anything about it because it's under
under used building, then we needto step in as the city or the
government. You need to take itfrom them or you know, buy them
out and do something because that buildingloan could have you know, mix of
hotel, a boutique hotel, condo'sapartments, whatever, you know. So

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and we net because if that doesn'thappen, then what's gonna happen? People
start for closing because they can paythe bills. Then Hartford looks bad or
any city is going to look badbecause all the all these foreclosures. So
we don't need any bad press.What we need is good press. We
need to be ahead of the gamebecause at this point, you know,
you have mortgage that are literally matureevery five to ten years. So when

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these mortgags matures, they're going tobe underwater. Like the other day,
there was a building in I thinkwas Bloomfield or windsor that in two thousand
sixteen or whatever sold for forty onemillion. Just sold for seven million.
Wow. So and I think itbelonged to like a corporation. But this

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is not going to happen because let'ssay the hart Ust of the Travelers could
afford that, but an individual it'snot going to be able to afford that.
So, you know, we allowthe let's say the old YMCA to
be empty for so many years.We shouldn't happen. These things cannot happen.
This is our city and blighted property, this is our city is going

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to be developed. We just cannotallow these buildings to sit there empty.
One. It's one thing if youhad too many housing. We don't have
enough. So what is that sittingthere for? So I'm burying into like,
look, if somebody's not doing somethingabout it, everybody's losing. The
neighborhood is losing, the city's losing, the state is losing. We need
to we need to be a headof the game. Nine In the back

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of the game, I built alot of these apartments not by choice because
I had two buildings fourteen seventy seventwenty seventy four that I renovated to completely
office and then two thousand and eightthousands game every half of the people laugh.
So my buildings were half empty.So I had to start renovating again

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and build apartments. I was notgoing to I couldn't afford to sit there
and just not collect, you know, so I had But that's what we
have to do now. I didn'tgo and get any assistance from the city
whatever. I had to do iton my own. But that's what we
have to do. And you know, that's what all these empty buildings got
to be converted to something right,right And now what I know, a

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lot of the property owners downtown reallyhave been working together in partnership to you
know, kind of help solve someof these issues and come up with some
great solutions. Can you talk alittle bit about those partnerships that are happening,
you know here in addition to theproperty owners with the city, you
know, touched on a little bit. I think with me and Stephen,
we kind of I asked people,where do you live? I said,
I live in I sleep somewhere else, yeh, but I oh, I

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like this. I'm gonna start usingthis. Okay, it's a fact.
That's it, you know, andso what we really need? Um?
What was the question again? I'msorry, No, that's it. I
was gonna say, partnerships between theproperty owners. I think a unique and
incredible thing happening here. I'm sorry, this was What was going is that

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I think a lot of the ownersin downtown don't live here, spend very
to know little time here. Okay, they have no clue what's going on,
and so you need to live here. There's so many things we can
do in downtown, I mean fromI mean, why can't we have a
restaurant on the twentieth floor, orwhy we can have you know, we
just everything is ground level? Whywe can't have if there's so many empty

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buildings or empty floors. The pickupball is the greatest strength. Put a
pickup ball court. I mean,there's so many things we can do we're
just not doing. And people arenot being creative, you know, I
don't know if they're not traveling.I was just in Boston the other day
and I see all these amazing things. What Bosters do? I mean,
you can't count to cranes. Youknow, the storage containers. People are

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just dropping storage containers and so wejust we need people like like I said,
people live here, they understand,and people that go to other cities
and this just don't get driven.I feel like people just get driven and
they have blinders on. They gofrom one house to the other house or
from their office to their homes andthat's it. But that's not there.

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I mean, I know the downtowncould be amazing, but it has to
be a operation. I'll Onwaly saysto be owner, local, city,
state, federal. In any greatproject, all those parties have to be
involved. Like in the neighborhood.We have to have the NRZ, to

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have the business people have to havethe owners, who have to have the
city. But that's what it is, and so somebody's got to step up.
And I don't think it's happening.Okay, Well, so we got
to start this movement more and more. I'm not just being done. Okay,
all right, So but a lotof I want to close out on
a positive and kind of looking atsince a lot of great things happening,
and Stephen, I do want totouch quickly on to upcoming events, So

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if people want to check out ParkvilleSounds, anything on the horizon that you
know, maybe open to the publicto us. So event wise, we
actually don't have anything in our booksright now as we're just transitioning to the
move. So a lot of ourstuff is it by appointment only in in
house recordings or your rehearsals. Soright now we don't have anything that's offering
for a public event at this timeuntil we official. I think a lot

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more to come. So that's it'sa lot more to come. I'm very
excited. I still haven't been overthere, which is my bad. So
I after today, I need toget over there. We're waiting for I
want to tour it first of thebasement and then and then bring me up.
I don't mean like I was notbeing negative. I'm not. I

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always want to do I don't carehow much Hartford does is never going to
be enough? Right, Yes,No, I'm with you. I'm never
content. I think a lot ofthe problems people being content. I am
never content, which is die thattheir ways. I always we could always
do more for anything, and that'sreally you know so well, and that's

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I mean, what's going to getus to the next levels. And I
think we've looked at, you know, Hartford over the last couple of years,
so many changes in such a greatway. And you know, I
can see it if and feel itthe enthusiasm for both of you on you
know, great things to come andgreat things happening today. So I'm gonna
end with the final question, whichis going to put you both on the
spot, and each of you haveabout twenty seconds answer. If you had

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to pick though one thing that youwere saying, say someone doesn't know Hartford
and you're saying you're coming to Hartford, what are you going to have them
do? What would be your onething, whether it's a restaurant, whether
it's a walk somewhere. That's anunderstanding. There's many many answers to this,
but I did not think I have. I am actually shocked that I

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did not think. It's not shot. There's not one thing. Yeah,
I know, anything you got likethe yard Goat is exciting. You got
arf Athletic, you got downtown,you got Parkville including part markets. So
you know, it's hard, andwe're so small, the Hartford is so

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small that you could do do allof that in one day. Yes,
you know, so many days youhave a baseball game, you have a
soccer game. So I just thinkthat it's not like you know, I
was in La I drove thirty minutesthough still in lay right, Yes,
exactly, still traffic, I wouldsay, basically the same thing. And

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any there's so many great artists,bands, shows, events happening in Hartford
any given night. Go to theJazz festival, go to Parkville Market and
come, you know, or gocheck out one of the great parks in
Hartford. I mean, there's justso many things that you can do.
Elizabeth Park, Yes, yes,amazing Elizabeth Park. Yeah, so that's

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kind of yeah, that's kind ofmy Yeah, that's what I hope.
Mike Freemouth with the convention standard,just pushed it. Honestly, the outside
of absolutely people that come from Seattle, I meet a lot of my tenants,
I do showings, and the peoplethat come from other states, they
go, wow, right now,I love Hartford. So this is incredible.

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Well, thank you guys. Iappreciate what each of your doing,
your team, so thank you somuch for redoing for the city, for
the region, for the state ofConnecticut. Where can people go to learn
more about kind of each of thework that you're doing. So Parkville Sounds,
where can people go to learn more? Yeah, check out our website
ww dot Parkville Sounds dot com.Um, you could also check us out
on a social media Parkville Sounds,and we always are posting what we're doing

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or if we have any shows comingup, or you could kind of see
what's going on in the studio throughthere. Okay, very cool, and
Carlos rous you got we have Ithink the parkul Market as an Instagram,
as a Facebook, I don't evenknow, a website parkmarket dot com.
And park Field Management as also awebsite. We have an Instagram, so

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it's never boring. Dame Parkfeld,No, I love it. I love
it well. Thank you guys somuch for being here today. Really appreciate
it. Thank you for having us. Of course, of course, Harford
go Harvard. I love it well. We will close on that and one
additional item we would love to sharetoday is we would like to welcome a
new investor to the Metro Harford Alot. We refer to our members as
investors because they're investing in the workwe're doing to promote the region. So

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today we welcome the Marriott Hartford Downtown. They are located in the front Street
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Convention Center, attracting business and leisuretravelers alike since two thousand and five.
The four hundred and nine room upscalehotel features elbar, Starbucks, flexible meeting
space, a rooftop pool, fitnesscenter, and a wellness spa. So

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walkable to so many of the attractionsthat we talked about here today on the
show. To get more information,you can visit Marriott dot com. And
for all the details about today's showthings happening here in Hartford, you can
visit Metro Hartford dot com. We'dlike to give a big thank you to
our partner o'kill and thanks to youfor listening and to our guests for being
on the show today. I'm KateeBollman. Go out and make today a

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good day here in Connecticut and agood day here in Hartford.