Confirmed with Link: All-Purpose Coyotes Arena Talk: [Update] Land Auction Cancelled, Meruelo waiving ownership rights.

[Sinurgy]

MSN

"Phoenix Councilman Jim Waring, whose district the proposed arena would be in, said Friday that the Coyotes should "get a zoning attorney. They don't have one. Get in the city, come up with a plan and go through the process. Then buy it."

It's not good that AM is already threatening potential legal action against the people he needs cooperation from. Especially when he isn't hiring the right people that are actually in the know and could've avoided this situation. That's on him, not CoP.

Oh I suspect they're about to get an attorney, lots of them, but it won't be to work with anyone. I expect they're probably going to get into some litigation spat with AZ Land Dept and/or City of Phoenix because Coyotes.

That's the whole book not the cliff notes. haha
Thanks for posting it though, might try to watch it later tonight.

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Jagged Ice]

I lost about 90% hope in AM during the Tempe campaign. Months before the vote when he didn't properly finance the campaign.
I lost all hope at the Gary/AM press conference. Gary's body language gave me all I needed to know.
If you are still crossing your fingers that AM and his son will actually build an entertainment district and state of the art arena off the 101 and 56th street, you can uncross them and move on with your life. I did and it brought me peace.
Trust me, the BOG and Gary Bettman want nothing to do with this clown and knew he'd fu#k this all up anyway.
Auction cancelled. Of course it is.

 

[TheLegend]

Yeah, Craig went off, was kinda fun. I don't agree with his statement that we were told the land was zoned already, we weren't, we were told that the facility that was to be built in N. Phx. was the same situation..... Craig did eventually allude to that, but his initial statement was wrong and it was always a potential problem.

He’s always referred to XG telling him they believed they had the proper zoning.

Definitely and that is part of the due diligence I mentioned earlier in this thread.

I guess asshats always ASSume too many things.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

So glad I’m changing residency to New Hampshire.

I would love to go back and live in Nashua. Best 8 months of my life.

 

[Sinurgy]

Coyotes fans have been doom scrolling way before anyone else even know what that meant!

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Meruelo setting fire to our dreams, one by one:

 

[XX]

Taking a fat L seemingly on purpose and then threatening toothless legal action is pretty on brand for AM.

It's clear this was always a flip play and he wants to pocket the gain but his ego won't let him do it outright. It has to be the fault of someone else.

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

This is what it all seems like to me:

CoP: No, that's not what that means. The zoning might not be what you think it is.

AM: Yes it is!

CoP: No, it's not. Here's what we need from you...

AM: (Being difficult instead of just doing it) But I've met every obligation under Arizona law"

CoP: Maybe you should get a Zoning Attorney to help you through the process.

AM: I don't need one, I'm right, you're wrong. I'll sue!

Auction gets cancelled because AM didn't play ball, didn't hire an expert on the matter, thinks he's done everything he should have to do. Now everyone dislikes each other, development never happens.

 

[ck26]

Watching a sympathetic Sun Belt team as they slowly throw away a 3-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.

Load up NHL dot com because I'd rather listen to the FLA radio stream than the awful ESPN announcers.

Wonder why "Coyotes statement on the Arizona land auction" is among the "Top Stories"

Click the link

Wonder why twitter just opened.

Realize it's not the 27th yet and there's no chance that anything positive could possibly be in a Coyotes Land Auction twitter statement.

Read anyway.

Just Coyotes being Coyotes.

Someone draft AM into the Army engineers, because if there's a landmine buried anywhere on the battlefield, he'll find it and step on it.

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Jeezus! I completely forgot about the game because the Coyotes always find a way to ruin things.

 

[AKL]

Can we fire Alex Meruelo into the sun and find a new owner to bring a team back? This guy is f***ing horseshit.

 

[SniperHF]

This is perhaps a random and completely unimportant point but what the hey:

I guess all that speculation/rumor mongering of other bidders was baloney yes?
Otherwise they wouldn't cancel the auction.

 

[RemoAZ]

There is one small bright spot in this latest hilariously stupid gaffe - the fact that the Land Trust wants Meruelo to apply for a permit to actually build an arena and not just commercial development on the land.

Maybe a question we should be asking is why Meruelo didn't apply for that permit in the initial filing...

All part of the plan errr grift?

You can keep on pointing fingers at AM all you want, but you are the one losing out in the long run.

We already lost because of this bastard.

 

[Jakey53]

Can we fire Alex Meruelo into the sun and find a new owner to bring a team back? This guy is f***ing horseshit.

And who is going to replace AM? There is not one name out there that anyone has heard. Not one.

This is perhaps a random and completely unimportant point but what the hey:

I guess all that speculation/rumor mongering of other bidders was baloney yes?
Otherwise they wouldn't cancel the auction.

Exactly. They wanted a bidding war.

All part of the plan errr grift?


We already lost because of this bastard.

We lost a long time ago and didn't know it. You can bitch about AM all you want for the next ten years or more because you will have plenty of time on your hands waiting for a team to come back. Then you will be calling the new group grifters because they will be wanting tax abatements that will make AM's ask look like chump change.

 

[RemoAZ]

There were reports that there were people that wanted to buy the team to keep it here but he didn't want to sell. I believe this was simply to force a relocation sale which would net him the most money for the franchise. This whole buying land garbage, if true would have been for him just to make money on the land if he won. I doubt he even planned to build an arena on it.

 

[Jakey53]

There were reports that there were people that wanted to buy the team to keep it here but he didn't want to sell. I believe this was simply to force a relocation sale which would net him the most money for the franchise. This whole buying land garbage, if true would have been for him just to make money on the land if he won. I doubt he even planned to build an arena on it.

Don't you think names would have surfaced? No one wants to buy the Yote's for $1B and then have to build an arena on their dime with no tax abatements. A city will have to step up big time to get ANY group interested, and that won't happen in this political climate here in Arizona.

 

[RemoAZ]

Don't you think names would have surfaced? No one wants to buy the Yote's for $1B and then have to build an arena on their dime with no tax abatements. A city will have to step up big time to get ANY group interested, and that won't happen in this political climate here in Arizona.

Of course not for a billion. That's why he forced a relocation sale. That is what got him a huge ROI. If he would have sold to someone in state, it would have been for much less.

 

[MayDayMayDay]

f*** Meruelo, and f*** his piece of shit kid.

This level of incompetence is absolutely embarrassing. It is time for him to f*** off and go away.

 

[RemoAZ]

This is perfect

 

[RemoAZ]

 

[GhostofTommyBolin]

How is anyone surprised that Meruelo f---ed this up?

Once he got his billion, I knew he wasn't going to build. The legal posturing is comical. He's not gonna do jack shit.

 

[TheLegend]

There were reports that there were people that wanted to buy the team to keep it here but he didn't want to sell. I believe this was simply to force a relocation sale which would net him the most money for the franchise. This whole buying land garbage, if true would have been for him just to make money on the land if he won. I doubt he even planned to build an arena on it.

“Reports”, “rumors”…..

Don’t mean shit.

 

[Ciao]

I'm surprised that guy could run a pizza joint. He just doesn't seem that bright.

 

[Mosby]

Craig also said today that the eventual goal was for the Meruelo kids to take on bigger roles. XG was only a bridge. The eventual CEO was to be AM Jr. Holy hell.