Connecticut Financial Center

CONNECTICUT FINANCIAL CENTER - 157 CHURCH STREET

About the Office Tower

At 383 feet tall, the Connecticut Financial Center (157 Church Street) is the largest, tallest office building in New Haven, Connecticut’s third most populous city. Located by the 16-acre historic New Haven Green, the tower has a five-star energy rating, a 10-deck parking garage and connected access to City Hall. From the center, it’s an easy walk (under a mile) to the Yale University campus, dozens of restaurants, performing arts venues, museums and hotels. With direct access to I-91 and I-95, 157 Church Street is two blocks from State Street Station, offering regional rail service between New London and New Haven, with select weekday trips to Stamford. Union Station, with rail service to Grand Central Terminal in New York City, is a 10-minute walk from the center.

About New Haven

Situated on Long Island Sound in south-central Connecticut, New Haven is considered the state’s cultural and educational capital. It is home to Yale University, an Ivy League teaching institution with more than 30,000 students, educators and staff on a 261-acre central campus. The Yale University Art Gallery (more than 300,000 pieces by artists including Pollock and Picasso) and the Yale Peabody Museum (a renowned natural history museum with a 42-foot skeleton of a mosasaur, an extinct marine lizard) offer free admission.

Designed in the 1600s on a grid of nine squares, New Haven is home to multiple historic districts and music venues, such as College Street Music Hall and Toad’s; art institutions (such as the soon-to-be-reopened Yale Museum of British Art); performing arts centers (including the Long Wharf Theater, with more than 400 productions since 1965); annual festivals (the Festival of Arts & Ideas attracts more than 40,000 attendees) and a dining scene that runs the gamut from upscale cuisine to neighborhood mainstays. Louis’ Lunch, circa 1895, is the birthplace of the hamburger sandwich; to this day, the burgers are prepared on original cast-iron grills and served on white toast.

Pizza is so associated with New Haven, the city boasts a 9,000-pound sculpture of a slice created by local artist Michael Pollack. The heart of the city is the New Haven Green, where General George Washington addressed soldiers during the American Revolution and Abraham Lincoln delivered a campaign speech. It remains a community gathering place for festivals, rallies and recreation.