Whalers Sports & Entertainment (WSE) chairman and CEO Howard Baldwin recently unveiled an ambitious “New England Sports & Entertainment (NESE)†plans to use hockey to revitalize downtown Hartford at a Metro Hartford Alliance’s “Rising Star Breakfast.â€
The centerpiece of Baldwin’s proposals is an outline for transforming the XL Center into an NHL-ready facility and the pledge to pursue the purchase of an NHL franchise.
“An independent economic study has indicated that a refurbished XL Center would create as many as 1,500 new jobs per year, and economic activity would be boosted by an average of between $48.3 million and $61 per year†Baldwin said. “And new state net revenues would total between $7.3 million and $8.6 million per year.
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