A long-delayed, $64 million redevelopment of rundown Martin Luther King Apartments will launch next week — first proposed five years ago but the plans ran up against a pandemic that pushed costs higher and led to a major revamp of the project.
The 1960s-era MLK Apartments in Hartford — a just a short walk from downtown in the shadow of the iconic blue, onion-shaped dome in the Colt complex — will be torn down and replaced by 155 garden-style and townhouse apartment arranged around a green.