Welcome to Glastonbury, Connecticut

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Each year more businesses and families are choosing to call Glastonbury home.  They have discovered what those of us in the community already know - Glastonbury is one of the best places to live and make a living.  Glastonbury is unique in that it posseses features of a capital city suburb, yet retains much of its rural character and agricultural heritage. 

These unique characteristics prompted Connecticut Magazine to rank Glastonbury the number one town in Connecticut in the 25,000 to 50,000 population category. Quality educational, economic, and leisure/cultural qualifiers, along with an extremely low crime rates figured into the town’s high ranking. Since colonial times Connecticut has been known for its inventors, ingenuity and industrial leadership. Today, Connecticut-based businesses remain on the cutting edge of innovation and entrepreneurial ingenuity - and Glastonbury is playing a key role.

Glastonbury is strategically located just nine miles from Connecticut’s capital city of Hartford.  Glastonbury is also the mid-point between Boston (107 miles) and New York City (118 miles) and provides convenient access to major highways and Bradley International Airport. The town’s location and outstanding quality of life make Glastonbury a desirable location for both the residential and business community. Glastonbury truly has it all…ideal location, a strong town government managed by professional officials, key transportation assets, a vibrant local economy, a top-notch education system and quality of life for both residents and businesses. 

Transportation —You Can Get There From Here

While Glastonbury's central location is important, it is the ability to keep products, services and families mobile that is key. Glastonbury enjoys some of the best transportation infrastructure in Connecticut. Route 2 has numerous exits in Glastonbury providing easy access to all areas of town. This highway also connects the Hartford region to southeast Connecticut and the Connecticut shoreline. Glastonbury is ideally situated between Interstates 84 and 91, connecting travelers to all parts of Connecticut, New England and New York. Hartford has full service rail facilities including freight transportation and a train station providing passengers with Amtrak service. 

Bradley International Airport - (BDL) is only 30-minutes away providing both business and leisure travelers with convenient access to top-notch transportation. Bradley is New England’s second largest airport with over 268 daily commercial flights serving 18,000 travelers each day. Served by 17 airlines, including four low-fare carriers and nine major cargo carriers, Bradley offers travelers highly competitive travel options. The new central terminal, totaling 260,000 square feet, features stores, kiosks, restaurants, bathroom facilities and passenger amenities. Bradley’s short-term parking lots are an easy walk to the terminals and long-term parking spaces (thousands of them, in fact) are connected by regular, frequent, and free shuttle services. The new parking garage offers sheltered parking for up to 3,500 vehicles and is located directly across from the new Terminal for Park-Walk-Fly access. There are also a number of privately owned parking valet companies within a short distance of the airport.

Once you're here, you may want to use a bike as your means of transportation. Check out the Bike Friendly Business Guide or visit our local biking organization.

Taking Care Of Business

Glastonbury’s proximity to Hartford helped the town develop from an agricultural community into an influential suburb of the capital city in the mid-20th century. Today, the lure of Glastonbury’s central location has helped draw numerous businesses and 16,000 jobs to town. Key employers include Ikon Office Systems, Open Solutions, and Glastonbury Health Care Center, to name only a few. Several prominent law practices, financial consulting firms, light manufacturing and industrial companies, retail shops and a variety of small but growing technical firms have also settled in Glastonbury. Demographic profiles show that these businesses are employing an educated and highly skilled workforce. Forty percent of these businesses are service-related firms, twenty percent are in the trades and eleven percent are finance, insurance and real estate. 

In addition to existing businesses, the Town of Glastonbury actively markets Gateway Corporate Park, approximately 95 acres of prime land suitable for business development. Several commercial office buildings stand ready to lease more than 200,000 square feet of class A office space. The Hilton Garden Inn has opened and a Homewood Suites is set to open just across the street from the Shops at Somerset Square, a shopping center boasting more than 85,000 square feet of prime retail space, including specialty shops and fine restaurants.

Glastonbury employs a professional town management team and follows a careful development plan that has evolved over several decades. The plan’s purpose is to preserve the agricultural character of the town yet provide space for commercial/industrial growth. Many farm markets still offer local produce during the growing season and historical, residential and commercial zones are clearly designated. With Glastonbury’s large land area, there is plenty of room for all. 

Caring Hearts And Hands
Glastonbury’s central Connecticut location puts it in close proximity to two of the major medical centers in Hartford designated as Level 1 Emergency/Trauma Centers: Hartford Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. East of the River is Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 249 bed acute-care community hospital which is part of the Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN), offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services. All the needs of Connecticut children can be met in one freestanding, medical center devoted completely to the care of children. Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, adjacent to Hartford Hospital, provides pediatric healthcare services, teaching and research for children from birth to age 18.

Several medical office buildings in Glastonbury have physicians in all specialties in addition to clinical laboratories, X-Ray, and MRI facilities. Many Hartford medical practices maintain satellite offices in Glastonbury along with the internists and family practitioners with private offices in town. Both Hartford Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital have treatment centers located in Glastonbury. These facilities allow patients to receive top quality treatment locally before having to go into Hartford. Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) is also associated with the Glastonbury Wellness Center, offering educational programs, a fitness center, and local doctors’ offices.

The Glastonbury Visiting Nurses Association is a private organization offering services from visiting nurses, a Hospice program, a “caring neighbor” visitation program, home health aides, clinics and other health-related services.

An influenza clinic for seniors is offered annually as a community health service. A community health nurse through the town’s health department orients activities toward consumer health and schedules blood pressure and cholesterol clinics. The town also has an active volunteer ambulance association for emergencies. The number to dial is 911.

A Place To Call Home

Some two-thirds of Glastonbury’s acreage is devoted to housing, with most of its 33,200 residents living in single-family dwellings. Glastonbury can boast a few homes and buildings from the 1600s - including the parsonage for its first minister, Timothy Stevens, which is located on Main Street in the historic District.

Among its nearly 12,657 households, the town has fine examples of 18th and 19th century architecture.  There are many historic properties located along Main Street and in the Nayaug section of South Glastonbury.  Starting in the mid 1980s the town saw the construction of condominium complexes, several of which are located on New London Turnpike, just south of the town center. Several rental apartment complexes are also available in the center of town. New construction has abounded in the ‘80s and ‘90s and continues today, with many new subdivisions opening with larger stylish housing bringing young families to town.

Welles Village is a 199-unit complex of low-income family housing, located in the north end of town, with units ranging in size from one to four-bedrooms. Low to moderate-income senior housing is also available. At Center Village and Village Green, older adults occupy 140 units designated for senior independent living. Near the center of town is the Herbert T. Clark House which has 45 apartments and congregate care for senior citizens needing assistance with activities for daily living. Next door is Herbert T. Clark Assisted Living, a new facility that provides 25 apartments and assisted living services. All of these properties are managed by the Housing Authority of the Town of Glastonbury.

Naubuc Green is a federally subsidized complex of 110 one-bedroom apartments for older adults, owned by Glastonbury Interfaith Housing and Barkam Management. This facility, intended for older adults who are able to live independently, offers an optional meal plan several days a week. For more information, call (860) 633-6110.

Glastonbury also has several privately-owned assisted living, health care and rehabilitation centers that offer long and short-term skilled nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, and memory care to older adults and those with special needs.

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