7,000 sq ft sports bar coming to Storrs Center

[BUConn10]

Bergin has been closed for 5 years now.

Interesting. It looks frozen in time then as it doesn't seem overgrown or abandoned in the slightest.

 

[huskymedic]

Interesting. It looks frozen in time then as it doesn't seem overgrown or abandoned in the slightest.

UConn maintains the grounds and is beginning conversion to other uses.

UConn to Develop Former Prison Into Classroom and Lab Space

 

[UCONNJACK]

A lease for a 7,000 sq ft sports bar in Storrs Center has been signed per Mansfield Downtown Partnership June 15th minutes. That's a lot of space. Could it a Buffalo Wild Wings? Hopefully it will become a great pre and post game watering hole.

Grille 86 Coming to Storrs Center | Storrs Center

 

[JMick]

Grille 86 Coming to Storrs Center | Storrs Center

I'm glad it's not a BWW, but a place like this seems to be boom or bust.

 

[BUConn10]

Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.

 

[JMick]

Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.

Agreed. Maybe we'll get a bar rescue episode out of it. That'd be pretty cool

 

[CAHUSKY]

Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.

What's wrong with the name?

 

[superjohn]

What's wrong with the name?

He thinks it will get 86'd.

 

[sledog]

So here's the essential geo/demographic Q that has been avoided but of paramount interest to the undergrads: how many babes will it attract??

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.

Graduated in '10 and Carriage was still a zoo every weekend. Cops were present at the end of the trail but really only gave you a hard time if you were noticeably way too intoxicated or drinking Dubra straight from the bottle. They'd sweep through at 1am or so and honestly wouldn't even have to say much just shine their flashlight and people left. However, I think it was that year or maybe '09 when the student was killed outside the bars during Spring Weekend. I had a friend who was still dating a girl the next year so we went up and it was a ghost town. I think that year it fell on Easter weekend so most kids went home anyways or something.

 

[Rocktheworld]

laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.

I started Fall 08. Absolutely no trouble with Carriage. I was an absolute degenerate for my entire first semester, and Carriage is mostly

 

[Rocktheworld]

Graduated in '10 and Carriage was still a zoo every weekend. Cops were present at the end of the trail but really only gave you a hard time if you were noticeably way too intoxicated or drinking Dubra straight from the bottle. They'd sweep through at 1am or so and honestly wouldn't even have to say much just shine their flashlight and people left. However, I think it was that year or maybe '09 when the student was killed outside the bars during Spring Weekend. I had a friend who was still dating a girl the next year so we went up and it was a ghost town. I think that year it fell on Easter weekend so most kids went home anyways or something.

2012 here. It was 2010 when the kid died and Spring Weekend was really in the spotlight already; when you see cops from all over the state (my CT local friends would see who could spot a cop car from a farthest from Stores), you're on notice. 2009 was amazing then I believe then the next year the weather wasn't awesome and of course the tragety occurred. That is really what kicked the block out from the hanged man's feet. I believe 2011 was the year the cops set up roadblocks and were asking for UConn IDs

Also as someone might have said one of those years Spring Weekend fell on abd Easter weekend. That was decimating.

 

[FluxTZ]

laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.

'08 here as well. Those days were insanity.

 

[husky8273]

'08 here as well. Those days were insanity.

you young folks should have seen it when every dorm had a keg (or 2) every Thursday, everyone could drink in their rooms, the package stores delivered 6 packs to your room, there was a pub in the Student Union and beerfests were held every weekend on campus

 

[uconnphil2016]

Bergin has been closed for 5 years now.

Pretty sure there's a sweet mural of Rip Hamilton there.

 

[huskymedic]

Pretty sure there's a sweet mural of Rip Hamilton there.

Guessing you didn't click on the link?

 

[JMick]

you young folks should have seen it when every dorm had a keg (or 2) every Thursday, everyone could drink in their rooms, the package stores delivered 6 packs to your room, there was a pub in the Student Union and beerfests were held every weekend on campus

The world just isn't fun anymore. Everything is too "dangerous"

 

[Gringo]

'08 here as well. Those days were insanity.

I was '01 to '05. At the time I loved the party scene, but looking back at it we got away with way too much. I doubt I would have made it past a semester without getting arrested under the current situation. Spring Weekend was insanity. Not sure how much they cracked down on it, but they had to do something. When we went to the Thursday night Celeron party on Spring Weekend my freshman year within about a half hour of arriving I saw two cars get flipped over and lit on fire before the police tear gassed the area.

It was fun at the time, but for sure the University can't allow that kind of stuff. They had to crack down on it.

Sorry to all you young'uns that us old timers killed the party scene for you.

 

[Tommyboy]

you young folks should have seen it when every dorm had a keg (or 2) every Thursday, everyone could drink in their rooms, the package stores delivered 6 packs to your room, there was a pub in the Student Union and beerfests were held every weekend on campus

I just missed that time. But we still had the occasional beer ball hidden in someone's closet.

 

[tdrink]

i was '84 to '89. right at the start of the clampdown. the drinking age was raised right ahead of me and my freshman year was the first that kegs were not allowed on campus. But things were still lenient. Everyone had fake id's and no one cared. Drinking was allowed in dorms even though most people weren't legal.

The spring weekend of '85 the concert was outside at the student union mall. pretty sure it was the Waitresses and some no name reggae band. I had a wheelchair i used as dorm furniture, so my friends and I (all underage) put a keg in it, gave it fake arms, legs and a head, dressed it up like a person and wheeled it to the show. all kinds of authority figures saw it, including police but everyone laughed it off.

 

[August_West]

so my friends and I (all underage) put a keg in it, gave it fake arms, legs and a head, dressed it up like a person and wheeled it to the show. all kinds of authority figures saw it, including police but everyone laughed it off.

epic post/handle