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Article: Convention Center may mean new hope by the Connecticut River.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2005
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Byline: Kenneth R. Gosselin
May 29--In the 1960s, Constitution Plaza was supposed to spur Hartford's sustained economic revival. A decade later, those same hopes were pinned to the Hartford Civic Center.
Now, there's the Connecticut Convention Center.
Will this be the time it really works?
With the convention center at Adriaen's Landing set to open Thursday, it still remains largely unknown whether the economic return will be worth the $271 million that the state has invested in the construction of the convention center.
The center is viewed as a key component in the state's efforts to revitalize the city's downtown area and ...