“Windsor – Like just about anyone who grew up in Windsor, Jessie Gobin had heard about “the Block,” the mass of squalid, undersized apartments bee-hived into a brick and steel building that once sheltered crime and misery.

So Gobin, the mother of a 7-month-old boy named Eli, had some understandable trepidation when she moved in. But what she found at the former Armory Square Apartments pleasantly surprised her. [More ...]