Posted on 06/02/2005 11:02:40 AM PDT by nutmeg
What was once an architect's sketch is now a reality for Connecticut. This morning in Hartford the Connecticut Convention Center opened its doors, ready to welcome the crowds.
This massive building sits on the eastern-most edge of downtown Hartford, next to I-91, and it's tough to miss.
Governor Jodi Rell and Mayor Eddie Perez cut the ribbon around 9 a.m. More than 5,000 visitors and invited guests are expected throughout the day.
The first major event is the Connecticut Business Xpo 2005. Several other organizations will hold opening day events all day long.
The construction cost of the convention center is $271 million. The building is 540,000 square feet; it includes a 10-story glass atrium, more than 200,000 square feet of meeting space and beautiful views of the city and the Connecticut River.
There will be an open house on Sunday from eleven to four.
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A Boston sportswriter called Hartford "America's file cabinet".
LOL.
Anything with "Hartford Convention" in its name...doesn't bode well. Is John Kerry, the esteemed senator from Massaseditionist, doing the ribbon cutting?
I hope it's bullet proof glass.
Huh? What's the connection?
LOL... I've also heard "Hartford: The Hole in the Doughnut". There are a few others that escape me at the moment...
Time for Mayor Perez to start 'hawkin those drive-by flak jackets.
Now if only they can put I-91 underground. 91 is next to the the river and in front of the Convention Ctr, they did it in Boston........
I hope it helps the city, lotsa building going on in Hartford, apts, condos, retail.....
Its a decent place to work and a nice little city.
Yeah, hope so, too, given Hartford's recent near-nightly shootings...
War of 1812...senators from the northeastern states, including connecticut, banded together in a secret meeting in what was initially thought to be an act to secede their states from the union and seek a seperate peace with Britain...because many of them thought the War of 1812 was...hmmm...Mr. Madison's War. Ahhhh...History, it tends to repeat itself.
Andrew Jackson...later villified the group by commenting, had he been President at the time he would have hanged the lot of them.
The end result of the Hartford Convention was merely a proclamation of grievences against Madison, and not the secession bill that was thought.
Still a "lowlight" in this nations history.
Woo hoo. I'm in. I worked on the big dig, working in HTFD would be nice. traight shot home. It's a heck of a lot smaller, too, and not built on 400 year old wharves & fill.
Thanks for that.
I always hoped they could do that in Hartford... it would be SO much nicer, wouldn't it? And who ever came up with the idea to put that disgusting DUMP right on the CT River, as you go north of Hartford on I-91? Baffles me everytime I drive by there (which is just about every day, unfortunately).
No, that would be Chris Dodd or Joe LIEberman
hartford baffles me, they tore down old beautiful buildings in the 70's for urban renewal and put up generic monstrosities. They put up elevated plazas which destroy street life. They buried the river which ran thorugh Bushnell park. The River is a great resource...which NO-ONE uses. Why not put in a marina? Funny place.
No problem.
A name is just a name...but still, Ole Madison is probably rolling over in his grave.
That's easier to solve than the blight on the other side of the highway.
There is a real nice little park under the bridge by the powerplant & brainerd (sp?) airport. It's just in a dangerous part of HTFD.
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