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Mitch Beck
- April 1, 2023
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…
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- April 1, 2023
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…
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- March 26, 2023
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…
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- March 24, 2022
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…
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- May 21, 2021
TRUST: XL CENTER MESS CONTINUES
BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - 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.…
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- March 18, 2021
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…
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- January 6, 2021
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…
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- January 2, 2021
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…
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- December 25, 2020
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…
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- December 4, 2020
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,…
