A special meeting of the City Council will take place Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. re: “Proposed Settlement Litigation concerning the City’s Arena and the Proposed 2021 Amendment to the Operating Agreement dated as of July 25, 2000 by and between the City
of Bridgeport and Service America Corporation.”
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post:
Mayor Joe Ganim’s administration hopes to strike a deal with the Bridgeport Islanders–formerly called the Sound Tigers–to keep the American Hockey League team in town for another decade in exchange for the city making $30 million worth of upgrades to the Islanders’ 20-year-old arena home.
The proposal, which would settle the two sides’ lengthy landlord/tenant legal feud and amend/extend the team’s current contract to manage the municipal sports and entertainment arena, was this week the focus of two private City Council meetings. A third and possibly final discussion and vote is scheduled for Wednesday.
Full story here.
The public may listen into this meeting by calling the following conference line and then entering the conference code:
Dial-In Number: (929) 436-2866
Meeting ID: 381 083 245
Power Play — Bridgeport Islanders demand immediate $30 million upgrade to stay in town.
That’s a bad strategy — offer them a continuation without any improvements.
Otherwise, put ’em in the penalty box!
The upside in minimal and the downside is $30M of ice.
Bridgeport needs a short-handed goal.
This has been a lose, lose proposition since day 1. Poorly constructed because of the Ganim corruption scandal but what do you do now?
Build another amphitheater? Bigger is better!
Tear it down and put it out to an RFQ?
Fairfield U is pulling out. Hockey is the only steady client.
What’s clusterfuck!!!
It’s Bridgeport, where clusterfuck was invented.
Cheers!
But don’t worry, the feds are sorting things out!! Lol, yeah right.
Bob, it’s amazing how fast people have forgotten the Ganim corruption scandal, Bridgeport is known around the country as the city that you have to pay to play.
Ron,I don’t think anyone has forgotten Joe robbing whatever he could from us.I mean,it’s STILL happening.
Bridgeport is known as the What A Dump city. It has replaced Waterbury as the worst place to live in CT.
And it’s leadership, Joe Ganim, Aidee Nieves and the State Delegation are incompetent. I won’t even mention the Common Council because they just do what they are told to do.
And the Economic Development Department doesn’t know its ass from its elbow.
Hold on!
You cannot remove yourself from Bridgeport’s decline.
Your tenure at The CC coincided with Bridgeport’s demise.
If you disagree, prove me wrong.
Since the GFC (Great Financial Crisis), how many properties have you put back on the tax rolls?
How’s your full employment program for Bridgeport doing? Are you outperforming OPED?
Since the pandemic, how many houses have you sold at premium prices in Bridgeport?
Bridgeport is full of winners, Bob Walsh.
Your next post is your chance to join their ranks.
I met with the FBI several times and was willing to testify at his trial. I did what I could to steer the ship straight. Don’t blame this shit on me.
(buzzer)
Wait,Aidee is mulling things over now?…LOL…
““I’m still mulling over some things some people brought to my attention,” Nieves added, though she declined to elaborate”
I don’t see what choice Bpt has at this point,the Arena,like the stadium were built with the cheapest materials they could get at the time,those buildings were Joe’s cash cows,the epicenter of his years of corruption…And now,the Arena needs millions of dollars renovations(Thanks again Joe!)..So what choice does Bpt have?,if we don’t fix it up,the Islanders leave,they will have no trouble finding another home…It’s pretty simple,either fix it up,or tear it down…And if we do fix it up,somehow,we have to keep Joe away from it!!
How much money did the city make from the last deal ?
Something smells here, we have to kick in 30 million for another cluster-Gluck!?
So should we pay 1.5 million a year to keep them?