Interesting but I mean, it's a fair marketing strategy if you look at it. Coyotes aren't super popular and would only use the arena 41 days of the year which means you need to figure out what to do with the other 324. Is that economic development TRULY needed? I don't know. I've been to a couple NFL, MLB, and NHL games in Phoenix and I didn't see a major need for a new arena complex. I never quite understood what the aversion to the current infrastructure was but whatever.
That's your typical "low information voter" for you though.
People are typically not going to go read several pages of that pros and cons of the issues. Needs to be succinct and to the point. No matter what the Coyotes needed to pound the message that it was a privately funded venture. No tax payer money involved.
If there are tax breaks, figure out how to explain the benefits to the city from the team getting those.
Honestly, the prior discussions with ASU to jointly build a new arena to house the Coyotes and ASU basketball probably make more sense given the age of the ASU building. But, that didn't materialize.
Honestly, the Coyotes arena has always seemed like a real estate transaction over getting them a new arena. That they need the Entertainment District to make it work since they are competing with PHX and Glendale for events. Probably means the city as a whole doesn't truly need another arena.
Timing sucks for the Coyotes with Sarver being ousted after the Footprint Arena gets renovated. If the lease was 35 years not 30 and due up in 2027, then they'd only just now either be renovating it or knocking it down to build new while the Suns went somewhere else to play, either at Glendale or one of the college campuses at Arizona or ASU. Would need new Suns owner to buy the Coyotes since from a pure business POV, no way the Suns would give up a % of their arena management rights to the Coyotes out of the goodness of their heart.
