CT Gov. John Rowland "announced plans" yesterday to
"punt" a 35,000-seat football stadium for the Univ. of CT
from Adriaen's Landing to East Hartford, according to Weiss,
Daly & Haar in a front-page report in the HARTFORD COURANT.
The "open-air" stadium will sit on 75 acres "donated" by
United Technologies Corp. and will cut $80-120M from the
Adriaen's Landing development project. Meanwhile, Adriaen's
Landing "will be retooled" for a convention center, hotel
and "probably" a new indoor arena to replace the Civic
Center. It could also include an ESPNZone. Rowland, who
"stressed" that the proposal for a new arena was one of
"many ideas being considered": "There are some people saying
the Civic Center is obsolete. It may be obsolete whether we
do the arena at Adriaen's Landing or not" (HARTFORD COURANT,
11/12). Some execs are proposing changing the name of the
development from Adriaen's Landing to Twain's Landing, in
honor of Mark Twain, who lived in Hartford. Rowland, on a
possible name change: "First of all, [Adriaen's Landing] is
hard to spell" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/12).