No more XL Center in Hartford

[KnightBridgeAZ]

There are many name changes that I refuse to recognize and to this day refer to the following (I won't dignify the new names by mentioning them): the Pan Am Building, the Tappen Zee Bridge, the Triboro Bridge, Sixth Avenue.

I'm now so non-East Coast that I didn't know about the Tappan Zee and Triboro being renamed. I didn't remember what the Pan Am building was although I worked in the city for many years. Sixth Avenue we always called 6th, although it has had an alternate name since 1946.

 

[Linart]

At least it doesn't have "Yum" in its name.

 

[and one]

For all Husky fans who have watched both MBB & WBB at UConn’s home away from home in Hartford, CT, be advised that the XL Center is no more. The ownership group of the arena has negotiated a 10-year agreement with Peoples Bank for naming rights. Effective immediately, the facility will be called PeoplesBank Arena.

I'm amazed that Peoples Bank purchased the naming rights. From the mid-1990s until 2003 I was a bank examiner working out of Holyoke and examining banks in CT and Western MA. Peoples was one of our banks and I was on the examination team for a couple of exams. The main branch was dead downtown and the area was pretty rundown. It was the only bank I examined where if we stayed late s security guy would see you to your car. In all fairness to Holyoke there was a little Hispanic bakery down the street that was fabulous.

Peoples was a smallish bank back then and even now has only 3.5 billion in assets. If that seems like a big number there are 5 or 6 banks with assets in the trillions and the 100th largest bank has 18 billion in assets. A bold move for People's Bank!

 

[Skeets]

What is above the main doorway from the lobby? Is it "Veterans Memorial Coliseum"? Is that still there? Will it remain?

 

[oldude]

I'm amazed that Peoples Bank purchased the naming rights. From the mid-1990s until 2003 I was a bank examiner working out of Holyoke and examining banks in CT and Western MA. Peoples was one of our banks and I was on the examination team for a couple of exams. The main branch was dead downtown and the area was pretty rundown. It was the only bank I examined where if we stayed late s security guy would see you to your car. In all fairness to Holyoke there was a little Hispanic bakery down the street that was fabulous.

Peoples was a smallish bank back then and even now has only 3.5 billion in assets. If that seems like a big number there are 5 or 6 banks with assets in the trillions and the 100th largest bank has 18 billion in assets. A bold move for People's Bank!

It never hurts to be linked to the best college basketball program in the land.