Hockey Arena Groundbreaking/Progress

[UCONNJACK]

Significant donations secured and more in the pipeline. Original fundraising goal of $9 million dollars was increased to $20 million dollars.

UConn Moving Forward to Build New On-Campus Ice Hockey Rink - UConn Today

UConn will build a new ice hockey arena on the Storrs campus, with plans to open in time for the Fall 2022 season.

today.uconn.edu

 

[UCONNJACK]

Nearly 5 million dollars in donations secured for new arena.

Hockey Arena Campaign

Hockey Arena Campaign

uconnhuskies.com

 

[WestHartHusk]

I give the school a pretty decent chunk of change and am thinking about pulling back until they get their costs under control. Absolute joke what they are running/ruining in Storrs.

 

[JeannoCT]

I think we give a decent amount but I'm sure its not impressive to UConn. Two years ago we gave our year end donation to hockey instead of the general fund. Never heard a word from hockey about it. Received the basic form letter thank you. So this year I passed.

 

[husky8273]

UCADF's "decent amount" likely starts at about $5K

 

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[UCONNJACK]

Any idea what time the groundbreaking will start? I’ll be attending the baseball game tomorrow.

 

[huskymedic]

Any idea what time the groundbreaking will start? I’ll be attending the baseball game tomorrow.

Scheduled for 11:00am

 

[UCONNJACK]

Scheduled for 11:00am

Thanks. Any chance a donor for the naming rights will be announced tomorrow?

 

[JeannoCT]

On another thread, the hockey trainer won "The Mitchell Family Award". Maybe it's them??

 

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[husky8273]

also announced $1MM from Frank Longobardi '77, hockey alumnus - recently retired CEO of CohnReznick

 

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-> The new arena will cost $70 million with $20 million expected to come from private philanthropy. On Saturday, Benedict announced two new gifts for the project. Frank Longobardi, a former UConn hockey player and recently-retired CEO of CohnReznick LLC, donated $1 million while Peter J. Werth, whose name is on UConn’s basketball practice facility as well as a dorm, gave $7.5 million to UConn athletics, $2.5 million of which will go to the rink. <-

 

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