OT - new hotel in storrs center

[auggie22]

jusr saw this update. If I am not mistaken, this proposed development would be across the street from the hockey facility ( next to post office ).

http://www.chartweb.com/wp-content/uploads/STC-STORRS-FLYER.pdf

They are also now reflecting development on the mansfield apt site (phase d). Interesting.

 

[jdb50]

That drawing was dated 2014. They tried to put in a bare bones hotel last year that Nathan Hale helped to defeat along with the Storrs hystericals. It was going to be perpendicular t Rt 195 across from EO Smith. Never saw this plan presented in public yet but it would be a good spot for one.

 

[auggie22]

Since charter is marketing the space for the developers, and this is clearly a recent update to the pamphlet ( I check this weekly, and the hotel/hockey development were not there the last time I looked), I am going to jump to the conclusion that UCONN or leyland is looking to develop the parcel (phase d) as a hotel now.

I remember reading that leyland bought property adjacent to Storrs center with plans to develop as additional housing down the road. Wonder if the proposed hotel is that property.

 

[Kolumbo]

Would it be possible for state to kick out E.O. Smith via eminent domain? We need the space.

 

[SubbaBub]

Would it be possible for state to kick out E.O. Smith via eminent domain? We need the space.

It's fairly routine for colleges to buy municipal buildings. Just need to pay enough for them to build new. The towns usually jump at the chance to unload an underused building or trade old for new.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Would it be possible for state to kick out E.O. Smith via eminent domain? We need the space.

Unlikely, would be very unpopular locally and it would have to be state and or university funded as it would be too costly for Mansfield & co. to afford to do so. I have a friend in Freeport Maine and LL Bean now basically surrounds Freeport HS. The town would love LLC Bean to but it & then build the town a new HS; but, even LL bean can't afford that.

 

[SubbaBub]

Unlikely, would be very unpopular locally and it would have to be state and or university funded as it would be too costly for Mansfield & co. to afford to do so. I have a friend in Freeport Maine and LL Bean now basically surrounds Freeport HS. The town would love LLC Bean to but it & then build the town a new HS; but, even LL bean can't afford that.

In the event any Mansfield NIMBYS frequent this board. Your solution is to define a university boundary negotiated with UConn. Land swap as needed, land trust as needed and let them do whatever they want within the boundaries, knowing that outside the answer is no. Add a transition zone along 195 and 44 is your interested is having a tax base. It's not difficult.

 

[pepband99]

The people's republic of Mansfield (as they are known at the capitol) won't cede an inch to UConn. The collective contempt they have for their essential reason for existence is staggering.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

The people's republic of Mansfield (as they are known at the capitol) won't cede an inch to UConn. The collective contempt they have for their essential reason for existence is staggering.

Reminds me of Boston. For years, they complained that college students (BU, BC, Northeastern, Suffolk, Emerson, etc.) took-up all of the apartments and drove-up rates on everyone else. Then, when all of the universities began building dorms and brought a lot of students back on campus, the same folks complained that landlords were being hurt because no one in their right mind would rent the dumps that college kids would.

 

[Stainmaster]

The people's republic of Mansfield (as they are known at the capitol) won't cede an inch to UConn. The collective contempt they have for their essential reason for existence is staggering.

The town's Tea Partiers would be happier living in cabins in the middle of the woods. Anything resembling development, whether it be university or business-related, sets them off.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

The town's Tea Partiers would be happier living in cabins in the middle of the woods. Anything resembling development, whether it be university or business-related, sets them off.

The latter reference is on target regarding Mansfield's NIMBY crowd, yet isn't it the 9 decades old Edith Prague and her ilk who impaired UCONN's academic growth and initiatives for overall success for most of her decades, e.g., Pfizer/Ag school lost investment/academic growth/AAU-potential enhancing opportunity? Absent Jim Calhoun and resulting success, they'd likely still hold sway in Storrs. Thank you JC!

 

[pepband99]

The latter reference is on target regarding Mansfield's NIMBY crowd, yet isn't it the 9 decades old Edith Prague and her ilk who impaired UCONN's academic growth and initiatives for overall success for most of her decades, e.g., Pfizer/Ag school lost investment/academic growth/AAU-potential enhancing opportunity? Absent Jim Calhoun and resulting success, they'd likely still hold sway in Storrs. Thank you JC!

For comedy:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n..._UgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=snIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1252,1767082

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

For comedy:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n..._UgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=snIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1252,1767082

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I went to CCSU in the late 90's and it was a "dry" campus. We all still drank a lot.

 

[HuskyJJ]

The latter reference is on target regarding Mansfield's NIMBY crowd, yet isn't it the 9 decades old Edith Prague and her ilk who impaired UCONN's academic growth and initiatives for overall success for most of her decades, e.g., Pfizer/Ag school lost investment/academic growth/AAU-potential enhancing opportunity? Absent Jim Calhoun and resulting success, they'd likely still hold sway in Storrs. Thank you JC!

I graduated from UConn in 2012 and now work for pfizer down in groton. You have no idea how much this pisses me off.