Civic Center may not reopen until 2021

[dvegas]

Hartford’s XL Center, convention center suffer losses in COVID-19 shutdown with more to come, possibly until development of vaccine

The Connecticut Convention Center and the XL Center arena — downtown Hartford’s two major sports, entertainment and conference venues — have lost millions of dollars in revenue in…

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I'm all down for a full season (if there is one) at Gample. But what does hockey do? Suggests it won't reopen until there is a vaccine. But the downtime could be used for renovations.

The Courant seem to have thwarted Outline to get around the paywall, but are offering 8 weeks of access for $.99

 

[EROCK CONN]

i guess there aren’t only negatives to everything ....

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

bring back the bridgeport games

 

[Chief00]

Eliminate CDRA, and at least the loses go away.

 

[UconnU]

Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

 

[krinklecut]

Ive got bad news for you if you think games won’t be played in Hartford due to covid but they’ll be played at Gampel

 

[Edward Sargent]

I am hoping for a half baseball season starting July 4 with three Florida regional teams and three Arizona regional teams. I live in Clearwater so we have the Clearwater Phillies Tampa Yankees, Lakeland Tigers and Dunedin Blue Jays. Games played for TV with no fannys in the seats. All players tested regularly. Lets see how the model works. I also think the 4th of July will become an important symbol of quasi independence from COVID

 

[gampelcrazies]

I said this in a previous post. My guess is conference only play in the spring semester and games only at Gampel.

 

[Edward Sargent]

I said this in a previous post. My guess is conference only play in the spring semester and games only at Gampel.

Don't we wish we were back to bus rides to games!

 

[UCLJ0211]

Civic Center hasn’t been open since 2007!