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Article: Small businesses win third of contracts for Hartford, Conn., convention center.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 12, 2004
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By Anthony Cronin, The Day, New London, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 12--HARTFORD, Conn. -- More than a third of the contracts awarded for the Connecticut Convention Center being built here have gone to small businesses, including minority and female-owned firms, convention officials said Thursday.
The convention center, which is being developed by the Waterford Group and will be managed by its Waterford Management subsidiary, has awarded about $171 million in contracts so far, and nearly 35 percent of that amount, or $59.2 million, has gone to small business firms, said Katie Blint, the center's communications director.
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