![]() Original and reshared posts recently note the Parkville Market groundbreaking, the Riverfront Recapture Food Truck Festival, a par three golf course at Hartford's Dunkin' Donuts Park, newly proposed apartments or the view from Thomas Hooker Brewery at Colt. With about 750 followers across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Restart The HART uses its social accounts as a directory of Hartford's latest offerings. The founding ambassadors of Restart The HART, a five-month old group gaining attention for its pro-Hartford advocacy, plan on collaborating with HYPE and others to build like-minded connections.Ĭo-founding ambassador Nicole Baccaro, a 26-year-old Berlin resident and supply chain specialist at United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, said Restart The HART's biggest challenge is defining their mission either as a movement or as a social group. ![]() She said she doesn't see a competitive threat.Įven as new groups spawn in Greater Hartford, Bishop said HYPE's membership over the last five years has remained steady, indicating they are meeting the needs of their base. Others include Junior League of Hartford, Bushnell Young Professionals and Playhouse on Park's Young Professionals Advisory Board, which use fundraising and meetings to spur more Millennial theater engagement in Greater Hartford. Sparc, or Suburban Professionals Achieving Real Change, is a group of young professionals forging relationships at networking events to connect the regional business community. Restart The HART, for example, is a 30-member group that launched in May to change the dialogue in Hartford, underscoring the good instead of bad on its social media pages and at local social gatherings. He's also a member of new Greater Hartford groups, including Restart The HART and Sparc, and hopes to create a community-building organization called Success Greater Hartford.Īll three groups host networking and social events and have their own missions. Keating co-founded Future Leaders of West Hartford (Flow), which encourages Millennials to engage professional, educational and philanthropic opportunities in West Hartford. The 30-year-old insurance executive said groups are working to get a larger pool of the 90,000 people commuting to Hartford everyday to stay downtown and enjoy its many offerings after they clock out of work. Keating Agency, has a hand in several Greater Hartford networking and advocacy groups. Ryan Keating, vice president of West Hartford's Michael J. Some group leaders said one of their main goals is to show how Hartford has changed in recent years with the addition of new assets like public transportation (LimeBike and the Hartford rail line), sports (Hartford Yard Goats and Hartford Athletic), additional housing and a growing downtown college scene, in addition to a strong arts and restaurant culture. ![]() Only about 22.5 percent of metro Hartford's population is made up of Millennials, ranking the region 78th among the U.S.' largest 100 metro areas in terms of concentration of young people, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. ![]() The groups, some of which are grassroots and others created by companies or nonprofits, are joining HYPE to woo more Millennials downtown at a time when city employers are desperately trying to recruit young professionals, especially as aging Baby Boomers head toward retirement over the next decade. ![]()
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