If I recall correctly those renderings included things that now are already included in the Shenkman and Burton buildings. All we need is a stadium.
IIRC, that was when the Whalers were still in Hartford and the idea was a multi-purpose arena that could handle football, ice hockey and basketball. That barely got beyond sketches (a few mockups made it to newspapers) before Karmanos shot down the Whale being part of it (he stated he'd only remain in state if he could have an arena in Fairfield county). It came up again briefly when the Pats were in discussion for Adrien's Landing but the covered stadium part was quickly dismissed.
I don't know, maybe the idea is that they don't want the presence of a law making them less attractive prior to a conference change.
I liked you Post, but Uconn needs to go big, and a Domed Stadium on campus would show The Big, and SEC that UCONN needs to be in the last round of moving chairs.
I don't see it happening in the near term, unless it was an express requirement. I agree with the poster who said that doing a feasibility study is probably a good idea.
Bill will not advance.
Ongoing maintenance isn't the states job, that is what the CDRA should be doing. One of the things that I find incredibly annoying about the CDRA is their ongoing practice of not doing maintenance for a decade or two and then presenting the need for remediation as a capital improvement. Yet somehow, even without doing routine maintenance, they manage an annual multimillion dollar loss, even after being grossly subsidized by the university. They are possibly the most inept organization ever to exist on the planet.
Kind of. If you bring up the issue of "maintenance of the stadium" inviting the organization which is responsible for it into the chat.
What this says is that we are (partially) allowing the CDRA to determine our success in Football(which is everything). That is frightening.
I get the Mansfield angle but I would think that mentallity would have changed significantly by now. Many locals have grown up watching UConn become a national basketball powerhouse and the athletic department as a whole be competitive nationally. Other folks move to the area specifically because they are involved with the University. I see it in our town where younger folks favor things like apartment housing and better roads while older folks constantly complain about commercial progress. Mansfield is rural but it's not Deliverance material. Come on Mansfield!
Agree. Have you been on campus recently, or I should say to 4 corners? Massive Apartment(condo?) complex nearing completion. Nothing says rural like a monstrous housing complex literally at the entrance to campus.
I doubt all that costs anywhere near 600 million dollars
Colorado State University's new on-campus Canvas Stadium, with a capacity of 36,500 (including boxes and other premium seating), cost $220 million to build in 2017. Naming rights garnered more than $37 million, so subtract that from the cost of construction. Stadium capacity can be expanded, if justified. I haven't been there but understand that it's an attractive and functional facility.
Thanks for the info Hank. Wish more people on this site understood this.
Wish more people understood that money doesn't grow on trees. That more people outside the UConn FB bubble would just as soon get rid of it then pony up hundreds of millions of dollars in further service to it.
