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Life expectancy of Arenas
I often see that people question how long an arena can last and therefore questioning the 30 year term of the Bond payback schedule in the SoDo Arena. So I decided to do some research on the Current NBA franchises and their arenas. Of active arenas being used in the NBA, the average age is […]
Take Action: Email your city council members today!!!!
As I’ve followed stadium financing deals for the last year, I was well positioned to investigate and understand all the key components of the SoDo Arena plan and would advise you to pass the MOU. I’ve read countless articles, studies and data on the proposed SoDo Arena from city and county council members, national experts, […]
Bird in the hand….
Well what a week. On Tuesday, the King County Council moved the SoDo/Hansen MOU out of committee and up for possible full council vote on Monday. Second, a Gretzky sighting at the Mariners game unleashed all kind of speculation that he was meeting with the City of Bellevue about the NHL in the area as […]
47,000 is greater than 19,000
It seems like the Port’s concerns is one of the last major hurdles to approve the SoDo Arena. To be clear, they are not saying it shouldn’t be built there, they just want more time and studies on potential Port impacts. I am not going to get into the fact that they’ve had 5 months to determine the impact or share […]
Hansen talks about where we are at with hockey in Seattle
Just a quick note on some of remarks around NHL I caught on KJR yesterday when Chris Hansen called in to their show. You can listen to it here: http://www.sportsradiokjr.com/player/?station=KJR-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=softy.xml&mid=22279286 I enjoyed the entire piece but if you want to just listen to the hockey comments, it starts roughly at the 21:45 remark. Here are the main comments: “There […]
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