The Hartford Yard Goats still do not have a home stadium:
Hartford, Connecticut’s new minor league ballpark was supposed to be “substantially complete” yesterday, but city officials confirm that Dunkin’ Donuts Park isn’t ready and developers have missed the deadline. The failure means more delays for an already delayed ballpark and potentially big fines for the stadium developers.
It’s the latest setback for the taxpayer-subsidized, $63-million stadium which was profiled by Reason TV in April. Cost overruns and construction delays have already caused the eventual home of the Yard Goats, the double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, to miss opening day. Now the team will miss at least 40 percent of its home games this season, including what was supposed to be a delayed home opener on May 31st.
It’s tough to open a ballpark without bathrooms. Something that isn’t mentioned in the article is that the area (I live in the Hartford-Springfield corridor) enjoyed a mild winter. The contractor should have lost fewer days to bad weather than predicted. As a point of comparison, a highway project on Interstate 91 in Springfield is ahead of schedule due favorable weather. At some point I expect to drive through Hartford and not be able to exit I-84 due to “City closed due to bankruptcy” signs.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1OKOd5d
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