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Page: 37After the ribbon cutting, we opened up the building for everyone to have a look.
Lynda Godkin, NINA’s Board Chair, served as emcee for the ceremony. Speakers included:
Dannel Malloy, Governor, State of Connecticut
Luke Bronin, Mayor, City of Hartford
Matt Ritter, State Representative, 1st District, Connecticut General Assembly
David Robinson, General Counsel, The Hartford
Tom Dorsey, Manager, Government Affairs, Eversource Energy
Andrea Pereira, Executive Director LISC
Ken Johnson, Executive Director, NINA
Jack Ellovich, President, HCLF Board of Directors
Guests of honor included NINA’s Board of Directors:
Sean Mulready
Chris Hartley
Andrew Daly
Robert Yass
Susan Winkler
Lynn Veilleux
After the speeches, Yvonne Matthews, Chair of the Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association, joined in for the ribbon cutting.
NINA and its partners held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at the Zunner Building today. The ceremony marked the formal conclusion of work on the building, which was NINA's biggest project (5 years, $2.5 million) to date.
The Zunner Building is an important anchor for the Asylum Hill neighborhood, and it also represents a capstone for NINA’s work on Ashley and Garden Streets. NINA started work here 13 years ago, when it moved the Victorian Lady two doors down from the Zunner Building, and NINA also worked on 8 Ashley Street and 221 Garden Street, which both abut the Zunner Building.
We are tremendously grateful to all of our partners on this project!
Major funding for this project was provided by the State of Connecticut through its Housing Tax Credit Contribution Program, its Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program, and its Urban Action Grant Program; the City of Hartford through its Façade Improvement Program and its Anti-Blight Tax Deferral Program; The Hartford, which contributes to NINA directly and also contributed to this project through the State of Connecticut’s Neighborhood Assistance Act program; Eversource Energy, which close to $1 million to this project through the State’s tax credit programs; and LISC, which provided construction financing for this project.
Nothing really noteworthy, but since we showed you this same car filled with paper lanterns, it seemed only fair to the car to show it full of chairs.
Overcast, but still nice views of downtown and Asylum Hill.
The Ashley Street entrance with new light. The back entrance to 207 Garden Street with new light. The elevator lobby. The third floor staircase with skylight.
Literally. They're in the house.
The new woodwork is now in place in the side gable, and as you can see we’re starting to look at different paint colors for the house. Also, there’s a view of 181 Collins Street and 54 Huntington Street that we haven’t shown before, looking from the corner of Collins and Huntington rather than back up the street from 54.
Matt and Jeff have wrapped up work on the woodwork in the front gable.
