XL center renovations considered as part of sports betting deal

[Zissou]

You sound like Sharon Osborne. Enlighten yourself.

Well, then I think it’s a nice vision, but I’m concerned that there is not a financial engine driving the transformation, and that the high taxes make it difficult to create an environment to attract business.

 

[Kolumbo]

LAZ Parking CEO Alan Lazowski eyes digital transformation of his parking empire | Hartford Business Journal

"I firmly believe that people are going to want to come back to work," Lazowski said. "The new work week might be four days a week instead of five days a week, but people will be coming back to work."

Lazowski also has a vision for micro-warehousing and last-mile delivery — or LAZ-mile delivery, as he calls it. Last-mile delivery, of course, is the final step in getting an online-purchased product from a warehouse to a customer’s doorstep.

It’s a business model made famous by e-commerce giant Amazon. Lazowski wants to convert portions of his parking garages into warehouses, which would hold anything from computer tablets and groceries to liquor.

LAZ employees would pick and pack items and then potentially deliver them. Or the parking company may partner with Uber, DoorDash or Postmates, which could deliver to customers' doors.

Lazowski said he’s also been in talks with Vermont-based BETA Aviation about installing vertiports — spots for aircraft to land and take off — atop 150 LAZ garages for drones and small electric helicopters, which could be used to deliver goods.

 

[Chin Diesel]

LAZ Parking CEO Alan Lazowski eyes digital transformation of his parking empire | Hartford Business Journal

"I firmly believe that people are going to want to come back to work," Lazowski said. "The new work week might be four days a week instead of five days a week, but people will be coming back to work."

Lazowski also has a vision for micro-warehousing and last-mile delivery — or LAZ-mile delivery, as he calls it. Last-mile delivery, of course, is the final step in getting an online-purchased product from a warehouse to a customer’s doorstep.

It’s a business model made famous by e-commerce giant Amazon. Lazowski wants to convert portions of his parking garages into warehouses, which would hold anything from computer tablets and groceries to liquor.

LAZ employees would pick and pack items and then potentially deliver them. Or the parking company may partner with Uber, DoorDash or Postmates, which could deliver to customers' doors.

Lazowski said he’s also been in talks with Vermont-based BETA Aviation about installing vertiports — spots for aircraft to land and take off — atop 150 LAZ garages for drones and small electric helicopters, which could be used to deliver goods.

Put me firmly on the "LAZ will be a disaster trying to do this" camp.

 

[John]

Put me firmly on the "LAZ will be a disaster trying to do this" camp.

Laz hasn't even mastered the skill of running a parking garage, and now they're going to be a futuristic e-commerce hub. Yeah sure.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Laz hasn't even mastered the skill of running a parking garage, and now they're going to be a futuristic e-commerce hub. Yeah sure.

Yeah, I wasn't exactly a whizz in business classes but something about being good at one core skill before expanding your business model.

 

[gtcam]

If what Texas and Florida stand for is the future, we are toast.

yeah California, NY , NJ , Penn, Michigan, ILL, Minn, Conn. are just wonderful and so well run that they are always in the black with such low taxes - people are flooding to these locations
Get real

 

[superjohn]

yeah California, NY , NJ , Penn, Michigan, ILL, Minn, Conn. are just wonderful and so well run that they are always in the black with such low taxes - people are flooding to these locations
Get real

I'm assuming you live in Florida or Texas then and not Connecticut?

 

[the Q]

If what Texas and Florida stand for is the future, we are toast.

You mean the two best run states?

Where ct is....bottom 5 at best?

 

[John]

You mean the two best run states?

Where ct is....bottom 5 at best?

LMAO

 

[superjohn]

LMAO

They are incapable of heating a house in Texas, other than that and everything else it seems lovely.

 

[uconnbill]

XL center sucks, there it is.

it is a money pit and that loses money every year. Sorry I would rather put the money into the Gampel Pavilion and other on campus venues

 

[Waquoit]

yeah California, NY , NJ , Penn, Michigan, ILL, Minn, Conn. are just wonderful and so well run that they are always in the black with such low taxes - people are flooding to these locations
Get real

I like that you are miserable loser and willing to write about it. It's a fun read.