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"WHAT NOW? YARD GOATS DEADLINE PASSES"

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Anonymous Alyssa said...

Whoaaaa . . . well-written analysis, Kevin. I think the Council should also be brought into assess possible outcomes. And NOW, not later.

May 17, 2016 at 6:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here is the "now what":
1. Kick DoNo LLC and Centerplan out of Hartford immediately. Stop any payment to these companies for misrepresentation and failure to deliver.
2. Look for another, EXPERIENCED, contractor. Take your time, anyway the season is already dead for the Yard Goats.
3. Fire all Segarra appointed Stadium Authority members. They are clueless, they were part of the problem from the beginning.
4. Go after the bond issuer, they will have to pay the balances, the damages and the extra costs.

May 17, 2016 at 6:36 PM

Anonymous Ernie said...

If a boilerplate construction contract was used, as in the case of AIA (American Institute of Architects)documents, there should be language regarding "liquidated damages" which is basically a "fine" for not finishing on time. The amount of liquidated damages assessed on a daily basis for the amount of time that runs past the deadline is different for each project, usually based on the scope of work, the contract amount, and the owner's desire to get the project completed by a particular date so that one can plan grand openings, ribbon cuttings, and/or comply with other service contracts that follow the construction contract. Maybe you could FOIA a copy of the construction contract and all amendments issued thereto. Usually one does not call in a performance bond unless it is obvious that the contractor will basically never finish within a reasonable time frame even if it exceeds the deadline, i.e., his workforce goes on strike or he goes out of business and/ or bankrupt. Assessing the liquidated damages is usually what will make him speed up once it's apparent he won't finish on time. Again, we'd have to see the exact contract language.

May 17, 2016 at 6:42 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

TAKE ACTION. BE TOUGH. TIME TO BRING REAL PROFESSIONALS, ENOUGH WITH ALL THOSE GOLD DIGGERS WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

May 17, 2016 at 6:52 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

C'mon, didn't we all know that the stadium was not going to be ready?

May 17, 2016 at 7:10 PM

Anonymous Anne said...

Kevin, after watching this current video I cannot believe that just two weeks ago--at the last Stadium Authority meeting--chairman I. Charles Mathews proclaimed with a big smile how beautiful the stadium looked, and how impressed he was. And in yesterday's Hartford Courant story, some Yard Goats players said basically the same thing. Maybe they were all actually in New Britain, and got confused?

Centerplan said they had been working 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, using up to 400 construction workers a day (many of them earning 10-20 hours of overtime each week) for the past couple of months. Apparently--as IFG's Kevin Green stated at that last meeting--it was a case of too little, too late. Even with an unpracticed eye, it's easy to see from this video that there was no possibility of having it "substantially completed" by today.

Did the principals in this project, as well as the media, think that little elves were going to take on the job and get everything finished by midnight tonight? Was this unbelievable lack of pointing out the obvious designed to create high drama and anticipation among the reading and viewing public? Did they want us to believe that the developer could pull off a "buzzer shot" win, a la Tate George in the famous UConn-Georgetown game? Magic and miracles?

Since Segarra's "done deal" announcement on the steps of city hall just about two years ago, this whole project has continued to reek of smoke-and-mirrors. Now the mayor is charged with pulling a big, fat rabbit out of a teeny tiny hat. Has he got an ace up his sleeve? We'll see...

May 17, 2016 at 8:13 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd bring back Pedro Segarra and Shawn Wooden to complete the work at the stadium. Maybe out of Hartford Cynthia Jennings could be helpful as well.

May 17, 2016 at 8:22 PM

Blogger Pat J said...

My question is this...
If Centerplan is asked to leave, what happens to the development surrounding the public expenditure that was theoretically supposed to be funding this project. Can we afford to kiss 200 million goodbye?

May 17, 2016 at 9:14 PM

Blogger Pat J said...

So if Centerplan is asked to leave, what happens to the 200 million dollar followup development that was theoretically going to help fund this project? Housing, hotel, grocery and so forth... gone?

May 17, 2016 at 9:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets publish the stf overtime kronos system numbers... That would require a strong drink on ann st to explain the need to give one person 40 hrs of overtime in one week. Kronos does not lie and if my finger slips and hits the print button, oh no ....

May 17, 2016 at 9:27 PM

Anonymous kronos has a print button said...

40 hrs of overtime for what? Take home SUV? Life is good for some special units. Im just glad things are back to normal. Im sure it is completely logical and non obtuse how 40 hrs of overtime is used to serve the bankrupt city.

May 17, 2016 at 9:30 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

9:14pm Do you really think that is going to happen? have you heard anymore lately about the supermarket, the retail, the housing. When do you think Hard Rock Cafe is breaking ground?

May 17, 2016 at 9:34 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm going down there now. I just want to witness the false promise pass into smoke.

May 17, 2016 at 9:56 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack said...

Mayor Erin Stewart is laughing daily when news of this stadium is published.Hartford should be begging for New Britain to take these cats back.

May 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mayor Erin Stewart has a million reasons to laugh at the stupidity in Hartford. She had to spend small change on the New Britain stadium, and the team is already playing there.

May 17, 2016 at 10:26 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

DoNo LLC and Centerplan missed the deadline. AGAIN.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

May 17, 2016 at 10:33 PM

Anonymous Joan cleaver said...

Maybe we can take some of that stinky pinky stf overtime to help fund the ball park, or maybe save a few jobs. But then again, what does Mr 40 hrs ot a week care ....

May 17, 2016 at 10:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Get rid of Centerplan and DoNo for breach of contract (Make sure they take Charles Mathews and his colleagues at the authority with them on the way out).

May 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just returned from Dunkin Donuts. Guess what? Did someone say Augurst as a finish date? Try September. There is no season this year.

I expect Bronin to invoke the $50,000.00 first late day fine tomorrow. $15,000.00 thereafter every day that it isn't finished.

May 17, 2016 at 10:47 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

MAYOR ERIN STEWART: GREAT JOB!
DISMISSED MAYOR PEDRO E.SEGARRA: YOU ARE A MORON AND A LOSER!

May 17, 2016 at 10:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Deal makers money takers. Where is the FBI when you need them. Deal to sweet to be legit. Only in Hartford. SMH

May 17, 2016 at 11:46 PM

Anonymous Lance Boyle said...

Phase 2, which is the apartments etc will never be built,it was a con job to get the City to award them the entire deal.Moreover, Centerplan does not have a bank commitment to finance phase 2. It was all bullshit to get the deal.

May 18, 2016 at 12:06 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did anybody really expect this whole project to be completed in the allotted time frame? It was impossible from the beginning. Wake up people, the time for blame is over.

May 18, 2016 at 1:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

9:57 PM
problem is they're no longer "cats," they're now "rats," the YARD RATS.

May 18, 2016 at 6:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Josh is some what responsible. He allowed mighty clueless I Charles Matthews who has no experience in any of this lead the way. Parading him around like a hired hand that has the perception he is a community leader was as wrong as some of the mistakes that have been created by all.

May 18, 2016 at 6:42 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's time to bring Donald Trump on this stadium crap that was negotiated poorly by clueless Segarra and his corrupt team. Donald Trump will squeeze everyone involved until he gets the best possible deal. Trust me, Hartford would be making money if the Donald was involved.

May 18, 2016 at 7:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who decided to hire Centerplan and DoNo to build this stadium? How many stadiums, if any, these contractors ever build?

May 18, 2016 at 8:02 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This morning the Courant's Jeff Jacobs:

"Solomon Has A Chance To Be The Savior Hartford Needs In Stafium Fiasco."
Jacobs adds by calling Josh Solomon to show his loyalty now.

Jeff Jacobs who supported building the stadium without understanding what's involved, especially in a poor city like hartford, acts like a complete idiot. Jacobs is now a beggar telling the Solomons what to do. That's his way: face a huge failure then ask the wealthy for help.
If you, Jeff Jacobs, had some brain, you would have told the other idiots, Pedro Segarra and Thomas Deller ("we are great negotiators") to get the Solomons pay for the stadium or a significant cost of the stadium.

May 18, 2016 at 8:26 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mayor Stewart laughed at Pedro and his cronies, Shawn Wooden and I Charles and such, now she is laughing at Bronin's inexperience.

Bronin you OWN it! Man up little boy, kick them to the curb; NoDo is a NoGo, since they are a NoShow!

May 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

BRONIN MUST FIRE ANYONE WHO WAS PART OF THIS STADIUM FAILURE. ANY INDIVIDUAL AND ANY COMPANY.

May 18, 2016 at 10:06 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lance Boyle
I also believed it was all bullshit from the beginning so they can get this job. Therefore they should be dismissed for poor performance and misrepresentation.

May 18, 2016 at 10:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

8:02 it all comes down to the greatest team on earth (just in time for the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus): Segarra, Deller, SKB and Wooden. The 4 clowns in the circus.

May 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The longer it takes to complete the stadium, the better.
Just a little math: 200 days late will cost Centerplan $3 million. I like that.

May 18, 2016 at 12:49 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@8:26 a.m.

Well, it's happened. I didn't think it was possible for Jeff Jacobs to become any more obnoxious, and more obsequious, than he has been previously. I didn't think he could ever prove to be a worse "journalist" than he'd already shown himself to be. But he's done it here. What a pathetic piece of writing. And what a sad, impotent attempt to once again sling mud at the "naysayers" and salve his bruised ego. Pathetic...

May 18, 2016 at 1:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

7:52

Take Trump and shove it. You don't have anything to add to the dialogue. Unfortunately, the only thing we can obviously hope for is a total collapse of the project. Does anyone know if the grandstand roofs were left out of the plans.

May 18, 2016 at 2:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ 8:02 I believe Centerplan has no experience constructing any sports facility.

May 18, 2016 at 2:30 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

I don't think Centerplan or Landino had any experience previously. I think it was all on the job training funded by the taxpayers of Connecticut and Hartford

May 18, 2016 at 3:39 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I still remember Pedrito describing the work progress and being certain that the stadium was going to be completed on budget and on time.
Where is Pedrito now?

May 18, 2016 at 3:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kevin:
If Centerplan or Landino had no prior experience, how were they chosen to build the stadium?

May 18, 2016 at 3:58 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

3:58PM

can you say politics? Maybe this should be the next Grand Jury investigation how a now close to 70 million dollar contract was given out with "no bids"

May 18, 2016 at 4:50 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Any news regarding Grand Jury #1 / Dillon "The Other" Stadium?

May 18, 2016 at 5:02 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

Nothing solid, plenty of rumors as to who is going down. I only hope the rumors are true.

May 18, 2016 at 5:18 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

2:12pm

the roofs were cut out to save money when the project ran over budget

May 18, 2016 at 9:37 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the old days - when Hartford had the City Council/City Manager form of government, the City's Purchasing Dept., (even with politics involved) would have had an advertised bid; bid opening; bid award; performance bonds, Certificate of Insurance naming the City of Hartford as an additional insured and other standard operating procedures to ensure taxpayers would not be ripped off. There should be discussion as to how much worse off the city has become and millions of dollars lost since the beginning of the "Strong Mayor" era. I am in agreement that an immediate recall of Strong Mayor should begin. Unfortunately, a lot of greedy people thought Hartford was ripe for the taking: Low information voters, lack of engagement between residents and government, etc. Approx. 7,500 Hartford residents, with no understanding of what they were voting for, allowed this to happen. Look what we got!

May 18, 2016 at 11:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is it every time the Authority chair I Charles big month say anything about this mess he help create it opposit of what the facts are? He is not a respected person in Hartford that's why he moved out of town. He is an outsider with his hands in people pockets. Check it out !!!!!!!!

May 19, 2016 at 6:56 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's see what Bronin is going to get for the city out of these millionaires/ billionaire. Let's see who's going to pay the millions needed to substaincially complete the stadium.

May 19, 2016 at 8:30 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A screw up after screw up. The contractors, the city, the stadium authority. Hartford always was a total mess. It still is. No leadership, no accountability. Screw up after screw up. And we, Hartford tax payers, pay the bills, pay for the corruption, pay for the mistakes.

May 19, 2016 at 1:05 PM

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