A restored manufacturing works on the Bridgeport waterfront tends to attract visitors. Some of them brought cameras.
Frank Recchia reported live from The Knowlton as the first Knowlton Walls murals went up, then filed the story: Shiran Nicholson on the goal of being the gatehouse to Bridgeport’s art district, Mayor Joe Ganim on wanting murals like these all over the city, and curator John Paul O’Grodnick at work.
Senator Richard Blumenthal visited to see the plan to turn the Armstrong Manufacturing factory into an event venue, in the building where the 1896 Armstrong Phaeton was built.
News 12 visited the mural park while Joe Iurato was still on the wall, painting the piece that stands in the Knowlton Walls today.
Lauren Fabrizi came to The Knowlton to interview Shiran Nicholson about the Connecticut Event Industry Coalition, during the period when the state’s event businesses were fighting to reopen.
A radio conversation about the Bridgeport Art Trail, the biggest arts weekend in the city, and the part The Knowlton plays in it.
Connecticut’s official tourism site lists The Knowlton among places worth visiting in Bridgeport.