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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 1703533, member: 3723"] Just so everyone knows what we're dealing with in terms of infrastructure overhauls here: [URL="http://www.examiner.com/article/into-the-bowels-of-hartford-s-xl-center"]XL Center infrastructure is like a working time capsule[/URL] [I]"There is a long access tunnel under the arena that runs north to south and cuts the floor at the halfway point. It was almost filled with ground water when the CRDA took over. The water was removed and then asbestos from the confined space. With a new system that archaic way of working the ice sheet will be gone, and the tunnel will be filled with concrete. The electrical is still an issue sometimes one circuit will blow and there are no replacement parts. The company that made them went out of business in 91'. That means replacing the entire breaker and it turns a $500.00 job into a $10,000-$15,000 dollar one. I don't want to turn this into a CRDA "honey do" list but if anyone thinks the 250 million dollar plan to renovate the XL Center is to give it cosmetic bells and whistles you are sorely mistaken. No one should be that passenger on the Titanic who complained about the food after the ship hit the iceberg."[/I] [/QUOTE]