CXLV - Tempe Entertainment District citizen referendum vote upcoming May 16th
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AtlantaWhaler
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By "recent arena renovation", I meant the capital put into the project. Not that it can't hold a sheet.
Hunter Gathers
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Who do you think voted on this? Who is "the city?"
Unless zero fans live in "the city," the fans had a chance, here.
There just aren't enough of them.
LadyStanley
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Yes there aren’t enough. There are hockey fans in India, China, Australia, Saskatchewan.
No fans deserve a team. It’s whether or not there is a viable market.
It’s a business not a charity.
Hunter Gathers
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Oh, for sure. I am just saying that the fans make up the city. So, when the city votes no, it's hard to say the fans didn't have a say, ya know?
I thought your initial comment, though, was saying the fans didn't really have a say.
nhlfan79
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680 The Fan was postulating on this very possibility just yesterday, but personally, I'm deeply skeptical. I'm fairly connected to the arena and those in the know over there, and I've not heard a peep about that.
Everything I know is that it's full steam ahead for hosting the Atlanta Gladiators (and Georgia Swarm) in 2023-24.
If Gas South were to serve even as a temporary NHL home, it'd need some pretty significant upgrades. First, they'd have to find and finance a solution to the thousands of broken/unused retractable seats in one end zone. Second, they would need to retrofit the actual concrete floor and refrigeration piping to drill new holes for where the crease marshpegs now need to be. When the building was originally built in the early 2000s, it was at the time the NHL had moved the goal line a couple of extra feet out further from the end boards. To my knowledge, once the NHL moved the goal line back to where it currently is, the arena left everything as is, as it was cost prohibitive to make that fix, given the modest budget involved for hosting ECHL hockey. I don't believe the current goal lines at the arena are in compliance with NHL specs.
CXLVI - Future of Coyotes up in air after Tempe rejects arena deal - will remain at Mullet Arena for 2023-24, looking at Fiesta Mall site in Mesa
https://www.12news.com/article/sports/nhl/coyotes/voters-approve-proposal-coyotes-arena-tempe-early-results/75-a0e6f9b1-412f-4f1f-bd9c-d80d66ecde81#_=_ TEMPE, Ariz. — Voters appeared to have rejected the three propositions that would have allowed developers to construct the $2.3 billion Tempe...
GKJ
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One of the problems of the market is that it’s so many cities and municipalities that there’s probably enough fans but not enough in any one of them. That East Valley is supposed to be ‘where the fans are.’ Similar to Atlanta, the arena being where it was actually cut off their core base.
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