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Letters
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Business New Haven
4/6/1998
By: BNH
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Nine Is the Loneliest Number
Located as it is between New Haven's central business district and the proposed Long Wharf mall site, the Ninth Square neighborhood (BNH, March 9) would seem to be ideally situated for new business development.
Yet for reasons that remain unclear (at least to me), Ninth Square forever seems to be “on the verge” of achieving commercial traction. Certainly, the few restaurants and clubs that are beginning to pop up in the district are a far cry from what was originally envisioned when the project was being redeveloped.
Could it be that the apartments that make up the successful portion of the development house just too few residents to provide a critical mass of customers for ground-level retail enterprises. In theory, at least, the people who live in Ninth Square need to do more than eat at restaurants: They need to buy groceries, have their clothes cleaned, etc.
I hope your publication will continue to report on the evolution of downtown and try to make sense of “The Plan,” if indeed there is one.
- Michael Altavilla
New Haven
CORRECTION
Due to an editing error, a marketing column entitled “Thinking Outside 'The Box'” in the March 23 BNH was attributed to Kevin Hall. Although Hall was quoted in the story, the piece was reported and written by Deborah Ketai.
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