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UConn, XL Center Still Working Toward Lease, With Number Of Games At Issue

UConn and the Capital Region Development Authority, which manages XL Center, "have struggled since last summer to come to terms on a new lease that would ensure UConn men's and women's basketball and men's hockey play in Hartford" through '19, according to Matt Pilon of the HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL. The "biggest issue in coming to terms on a new five-year lease has been determining how many games UConn athletics will play" at the venue. UConn said that there is "no question that it will continue to play at XL, which offers the largest indoor seating capacity in the state, but it's not clear how many games the school is willing to commit in the coming years." The school "hasn't signed a multi-year lease" since its last deal expired in '13. UConn and the CRDA are "operating on an unsigned one-year lease that expires in June." CRDA Exec Dir Michael Freimuth and UConn Associate AD/Communications Michael Enright both confirmed that this shorter agreement "has been held up, mostly by language regarding how XL Center and UConn will split up advertising signage revenue on the venue's new digital signs." But both sides said that UConn trustees "have signed the one-year lease, which is going through legal approvals." Freimuth said that the CRDA is "pushing for upwards of 25 regular season UConn games a year." But Enright said that UConn "needs to ensure it holds enough games on-campus in Storrs." Pilon noted XL Center's operating costs "continue to rise, and CRDA is concerned that the state's tight fiscal situation could make it harder to cover the arena's operating shortfall" (HARTFORDBUSINESS.com, 3/17).

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