What’s that fishy smell…A Bass Pro shop update…
by jonpelto
Less than two months ago, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch was still calling the plan to open a Bass Pro store in Bridgeport a “deal changer.” In April Finch told residents, “The deal from the state of Connecticut should probably be inked sometime this summer” and added that he was planning for a December 2014 groundbreaking.
Finch’s statement continued the odd saga surrounding the Bass Pro effort which began last July when Governor Malloy, Mayor Finch and Bass Pro officials held a star-studded outdoor press conference to announce that Bass Pro would be opening a new store in the Steel Point section of Bridgeport.
At the time officials said the new Bass Pro Shop would “open on the waterfront property
