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Title: With a National Park Next to Its Downtown: Forecasting the Distribution of the Economic Impacts of the Coltsville National Historical Park within Hartford, Connecticut
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: My thesis project will deal with the future economic impact on the city of Hartford, Connecticut of the new Coltsville National Historical Park. The park encompasses the former Colt firearms factory, closed for over two decades, and the surrounding area, informally known as Coltsville, that was once its company town. While best known as the production site of some of the first practical multiple-shot firearms, the factorys arguably stronger claim to historic significance is the contribution it made to manufacturing everywhere by pioneering a number of mass-production techniques. For years, a group of local stakeholders worked to persuade the National Park Service (NPS) to make Coltsville, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976 (OConnell et al. 2009, 7), a unit of the National Park System. This effort came to fruition in late 2014, although the new national park is understood to still be years away from becoming fully operational. The goal of my analysis is to forecast the economic impact of the new national park on the city of Hartford in terms of the number and location of additional jobs resulting from the increase in visitor numbers brought about by the new park.
Url: http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2093&context=gs_theses
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Authors: Tarasov, Dmitriy V
Institution: University of Connecticut - Storrs
Department: University of Connecticut Graduate School Advisor
Advisor: Dean Hanink Degree
Degree: Master of Arts
Publisher Location: Storrs, CT
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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other
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