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"HARTFORD'S DEN OF THIEVES"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's almost impossible to be surprised by anything Hartford does anymore.

July 23, 2016 at 5:39 PM

Anonymous Hokas Pokas Hartford said...

How many monkeys can occupy one jail cell? Ok, Bronin goes in three years. But who replaces him?

July 23, 2016 at 10:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the Court grants a hearing, we should all go down. It would be great to get facts, instead of the political spin, for once.

July 23, 2016 at 11:48 PM

Anonymous Publius said...

Bronin has given a statement to the FBI already and is awaiting a subpoena to be served upon him, compelling him to testify before the grand jury concerning his role in the re-election fundraising scandal of the Democratic Party and Dan Malloy.

July 24, 2016 at 1:45 AM

Blogger Harshal Patel said...

Did Centerplan get compensated for the 98% of the work they completed? I assume yes.

I wonder how Centerplan's legal action is coming along...

I am not a big fan of real estate development to revive a city, but who will want to work with Hartford in the future? They are better off heading to New Britain instead.

July 24, 2016 at 10:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Has there been ANY news regarding the Hard Rock Hotel? Wasn't that supposed to be part of DoNo?

July 24, 2016 at 4:16 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

4:16pm,

I think it is going next to the new supermarket, right along side the retail

July 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You gotta appreciate the irony that centerplan, who got a no bid contract for the stadium due to their connections, even though they had no experience in building one, is whining to the court about someone coming in to clean up after them due to connections.

They all deserve each other.

July 24, 2016 at 6:39 PM

Anonymous Mr Clean said...

@4:16

Now called "Soft Rock."

July 24, 2016 at 9:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

a screw up after screw up after screw up.
enough already.

July 24, 2016 at 9:13 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the only ones that are truly happy about this are the"Scapegoat" players because to date they haven't had to step foot into this corrupt disaster of a city we call Hartford.

July 25, 2016 at 12:34 AM

Anonymous Norman said...

The Hard Rock Hotel declined to consider coming here.... I presume to the BS that has been happening in this poorly mismanaged city.

July 25, 2016 at 1:31 AM

Anonymous Hartford's Shootting Stars said...

@6:39

Great point. If the legal argument rests on necessary changes made by city inspectors which were either built into the agreement; meaning that these course changes are an expected part of a a project of this magnitude, then Centerplan should not have much favorable outcome. If however, it could be proven that the city made many unexpected modifications that rendered the development untenable under existing agreements, then the city might find itself in the hangman's noose.

Either way, this project was destined to be a failure from the beginning. You don't take a huge track of land and develop a ball stadium which will remain unused 80% of the time. You just don't do that. And you don't waste valuable tax revenues on private enterprise. No you just don't do this. I have been a liberal-minded person all of my life. But my definition of "liberal" does not and never has includd wasteful government spending.

I am reminded of a story of a town in Florida that wanted sidewalks installed where there was none and the town applied to the state to construct. The state looked at the project and told the town that if they want a sidewalk, then they pay for it. In the case of Hartford, we had a rogue mayor leading the usual foolish council around to vote on a project just so the kids had a place to go to watch real big baseball games. Here I thinking Joel Cruz. He is like able, friendly, hard working, but having no sense of fiscal responsibility. And Jennings added that jobs were needed and I suppose government is responsible for hiring everyone.

Since the mayor use the tool of an "Authority" to circumvent the will of the people, is this authority tool a state statute and if so, can this be amended at the state level so it does not ever occur again. I will need to look this up but does anyone know about the terms of an "Authority?"

July 25, 2016 at 8:30 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kevin,If having a successful ,thriving minor league baseball stadium brings economic growth ,how come the stadium in New Britain doesn't have restaurants,hotels,a super market,apartments surrounding it???? They have been "rocking" for well over a couple decades. I DONT GET IT!!! If you look at other cities with minor league baseball,they didn't look at the stadium as a "Cinderella's castle" in Disney and build around it. Where did that come from?

July 25, 2016 at 10:29 AM

Anonymous General Grievous said...

Anonymous said... July 25, 2016 at 10:29 AM

Also check out Dodd Stadium, Norwich. Plenty of space around the stadium, no development. There is a very large revenue gap from major league to minor league. This isn't like European soccer where lower level leagues support thriving teams. US baseball is major league or bust.

Regardless, Hartford should fire the Yard Goats and find a team willing to pay for a 98% finished stadium. If you can't find one, that's all you need to know about the economics of this corrupt boondoggle. Maybe convert it to a frisbee golf / paintball / music venue.

July 25, 2016 at 3:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Been to Rentschler field lately? Nothing but acres of parking spaces. Cabela's only came after a tax abatement was awarded.

And considering most of current downtown was developed after the whalers left town and it quickly becomes hard to argue about the importance of sports stadiums in a local economy.

I've also heard the City has turned down private money and volunteer work to fix up Dillon Stadium.

July 25, 2016 at 10:14 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry for being naive but assume a few pockets were lined with cash for the stadium deal. I know this is hypothetical but who might have received hard cash,approximatly how much could they get away with skimming and how do they do it.

July 26, 2016 at 11:42 AM

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