CRDA AND XL CENTER SPORTS BETTING HITS A SPEED BUMP
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – As if the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) needed another headache with the XL Center. The ongoing bidding process to marry the CRDA with real-world economics, including meeting the XL…
XL CENTER, CRDA IN FULL CRISIS MODE PART 2
By Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA), which controls the XL Center, has plenty of issues on its plate, and there seem to be extra trips being made back for seconds and thirds. Two weeks ago,…
XL CENTER IN FULL CRISIS MODE PART 1
By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The XL Center seems to be finally reaching an outcome. Last Thursday, at its monthly meeting, the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) unveiled a cost estimate of $107.2M to update the nearly…
CANTLON: XL SPORTS BETTING UNVEILED Part 2
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Recently, articles published in both the Hartford Courant and The Day of New London suggest UCONN might move all of their sports operations to the Gampel Pavilion for both men’s and women’s hoops and the…
TRUST: XL CENTER MESS CONTINUES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT –Â Over the last eight years, the process of modernizing the 48-year-old XL Center has been a focal point of endless peaks and valleys. However, the process still sits in neutral with no real forward motion…
CANTLON: XL CENTER WORKS CONTINUES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – While the XL Center is open for hockey-only these days, work behind the scenes continues on. The Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) and Northland Investment Corp., the owner of the Atrium portion…
CANTLON’S CORNER: CRDA AND XL CENTER NEWS UPDATE
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The Tuesday post-holiday, virtual CRDA Meeting regarding the XL Center was canceled. The reason? Northland Corporation, which has been in negotiations for nearly three years with the CRDA regarding the…
CANTLON: FEW DETAILS EXIST FOR START OF AHL SEASON
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – AHL hockey will return on February 5th, that much is for certain, but regarding details, like schedules, the number of games, yea or nay to spectator participation, and a plethora of other decisions still…
CANTLON’S CORNER: WILL THE AHL SEASON BE SAVED?
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The AHL season is not dead yet. While it seemed almost a certainty that there would not be an AHL season a week ago, now seems to have completely flipped the other way. The AHL’s Return to Play…
CANTLON: CRDA LOOKS TO FINALLY START BUILDING RENOVATION
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – The opening of the XL Center in the first quarter of 2021 and the February 5th AHL start date stand like everything else, held hostage by recent COVID spikes. “We have been told probably February, but so…