Time, Priority Shifts Combine To Fell Hartford Arts Center

Hartford’s performing arts center, constructed in the 1980s to bring several of the city’s top cultural groups together in a single home, now stands dilapidated and abandoned by nearly all of its onetime tenants. The building is up for sale, and for the most, part, Hartford’s arts scene has moved on without it. “Let us note for the record that it was fun while it lasted.”