Blue Back Square

Blue Back Square, a 20-acre mixed-use addition to the long-established town center in West Hartford, Connecticut, has fared well during its first year despite the national financial crisis. “In a bleak economy, more than 90 percent of the retail and office space is occupied, with leasing rates that remain the highest in Greater Hartford,” The Hartford Courant reported in mid-November when the center celebrated its first year of operation. One condo unit in Blue Back sold in September for $1.77 million, “the highest condo sale price in Hartford County in years,” the newspaper was told by The Warren Group, a Boston-based real estate analyst.