The XL Center is now People's Bank Arena. *nm*

[Waquoit]

Upgrade still paying dividends!

 

[Flipside]

Love CT, Hartford and the HCC, but horrible decisions for decades, imho ... they need to blow that sucker up, and build-a-new, rather than putting bandaids on gunshot wounds

Flashback New England Patriots terminate Hartford stadium agreement ... where the Downtown Marriott & scarcely patronized Conference Center lie, could have been a virbrant year-round, domed-stadium venue for the Patriots (pre-Super Bowls), Final Fours, Bowl Games, AARP Conventions, Truck & Tracktor Pulls, etc. lol ... the list goes on, but folks were too concerned about "traffic, parking and taxes" WTF!?

I grew up in CT when we had toll booths on the Charter Oak & Putnam Bridges ... now I see people complaining about proposed tolls, lol (quietly)

The state also rejected Six Flags (for those that remember) on the EH P&W site, as it would only bring minimum wage jobs ... instead, now, we got an outdoor stadium convenient to nobody that doesn't live in the 06108, for what, 6 games a year? ... total failure!

 

[LIUCHusky]

Love CT, Hartford and the HCC, but horrible decisions for decades, imho ... they need to blow that sucker up, and build-a-new, rather than putting bandaids on gunshot wounds

Flashback New England Patriots terminate Hartford stadium agreement ... where the Downtown Marriott & scarcely patronized Conference Center lie, could have been a domed-stadium venue for the Patriots (pre-Super Bowls), Final Fours, Bowl Games, AARP Conventions, Truck & Tracktor Pulls, etc. lol ... the list goes on, but folks were too concerned about "traffic, parking and taxes" WTF!?

I grew up in CT when we had toll booths on the Charter Oak & Putnam Bridges ... now I see people complaining about proposed tolls, lol (quietly)

The state also rejected Six Flags (for those that remember) on the EH P&W site, as it would only bring minimum wage jobs ... instead, now, we got an outdoor stadium convenient to nobody that doesn't live in the 06108, for what, 6 games a year? ... total failure!

I would argue that Rentschler is convenient to people everywhere in the state.

 

[Flipside]

I would argue that Rentschler is convenient to people everywhere in the state.

fair enough, I may have misued the word convenient

 

[Kolumbo]

I would argue that Rentschler is convenient to people everywhere in the state.

Everywhere in Connecticut is convenient to people everywhere in the state. It's this small time thinking that contributes to keeping Connecticut down. Outsiders simply can't understand why the UConn campus doesn't have a football stadium.

 

[Flipside]

Everywhere in Connecticut is convenient to people everywhere in the state. It's this small time thinking that contributes to keeping Connecticut down. Outsiders simply can't understand why the UConn campus doesn't have a football stadium.

Rentschler Field - Wikipedia

"In the mid-1990s, the Six Flags corporation considered using the vacated acreage as the site for a new amusement park property, following community pushback in the southeastern Connecticut tourist area surrounding their plan to use property in Stonington, Connecticut under an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. City of East Hartford leadership supported the introduction of a Six Flags park to Rentschler Field, with key points including the site's large size, proximity to Hartford and central location near major thoroughfares Interstate 91 and Interstate 84, with the possibility to attract people from New York City and Boston, Massachusetts in addition to Southern New England. At the time, Six Flags was also considering alternate locations in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Then-governor John G. Rowland stated that he would support and enjoy a new Six Flags amusement park in East Hartford, but that the State of Connecticut would not provide additional funds to establish the project. In 1998, Six Flags parent company Time Warner Entertainment opted to sell the division to competitor Premier Parks, the owners of nearby Riverside Park (now known as Six Flags New England) in Agawam, Massachusetts. The deal extinguished the desire to construct an additional park in Connecticut."

 

[CL82]

I would argue that Rentschler is convenient to people everywhere in the state.

Except, of course, to the team, coaching, staff, and students. To them it's a pretty inconvenient location.

 

[HooperScooper]

Love CT, Hartford and the HCC, but horrible decisions for decades, imho ... they need to blow that sucker up, and build-a-new, rather than putting bandaids on gunshot wounds

Same question that always stops this discussion. Who's paying for this? Because it won't make economic sense to anyone.

 

[Flipside]

Same question that always stops this discussion. Who's paying for this? Because it won't make any economic sense for anyone.

Could you define ‘economic sense’? Asking as a UConn Econ grad who’s genuinely curious about various meanings of the word ‘sense’ here

 

[HooperScooper]

Could you define ‘economic sense’? Asking as a UConn Econ grad who’s genuinely curious about various meanings of the word ‘sense’ here

Economic sense = an acceptable risk adjusted return on the invested capital. Unless a public entity will spend the capital for this as something for the public good. And we all know this is never going to happen in Connecticut.

 

[Flipside]

Economic sense = an acceptable risk adjusted return on the invested capital. Unless a public entity will spend the capital for this as something for the public good. And we all know this is never going to happen in Connecticut.

agree, until people stop parroting what won't happen, and instead, be the change!

Connecticut is my home (even though I live in South Florida), and is one of the most amazing & open places to do any kind of business to this day, imho and experience

vs.

oh, say NYC, the city that supposedly never sleeps ... until 2017, NYC had a ban on dancing in unlicensed venues (say that again, slowly) ... raise one's hand if ya knew this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Law

... meanwhile, any bloke like me could book a venue in CT, for any purpose, and business owners loved us

I miss CT, but not the negative status quo