From Craig Morgan going over the auction:
Coyotes land auction primer: All you need to know on June 27
Coyotes land auction primer: All you need to know on June 27
CXLVIII - Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo had 'productive' meeting with Phoenix mayor
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TheLegend
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MMC
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Cant wait to hear how he spins this one. Dude was a fraud from the beginning, how the hell was he vetted???
Did anyone screenshot the clock when it was exactly 14 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds?
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Hmmm wonder if that's associated with the 404 message I saw with this link....
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editorial by laurie roberts saying meruelo is a billionaire cheapskate..
www.azcentral.com
Arizona Coyotes' billionaire former owner is the cheapest cheapskate of them all
Opinion: Billionaire Alex Meruelo laid off his Coyotes hockey staff. Remember this, Phoenix, when he comes knocking with his hand out for a tax break.
www.azcentral.com
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editorial by laurie roberts saying meruelo is a billionaire cheapskate..
Arizona Coyotes' billionaire former owner is the cheapest cheapskate of them all
Opinion: Billionaire Alex Meruelo laid off his Coyotes hockey staff. Remember this, Phoenix, when he comes knocking with his hand out for a tax break.
Meh…. Roberts also hated Tempe and ASU giving a 99 year GPLET to a $1.3 billion dollar office complex.
TheLegend
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Because the NHL webmaster removed the Coyotes page when the sale to Utah closed and failed to fix all the links he/she broke in the process.
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Um….. the guy has several state and federal agencies that regulate and oversee all his businesses.
Can’t see them all just turning a blind eye to him if he’s such a “fraud.”
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Ok - Help me out here. They're just now determining this (in the 11th hour), and this couldn't have been put in place at the beginning of the auction process?
I mean, the link to the f***ing form is on the front page of ASLD's website under Applications & Permits
I must be missing a step I guess
I mean, the link to the f***ing form is on the front page of ASLD's website under Applications & Permits
I must be missing a step I guess
GKJ
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So I think we know enough to know that Meruelo is the only bidder that’s made themselves known.
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Man alive, this stupid mess found a way to get even dumber.
That might be a good cue for yet another chapter to this saga.
Going, going, going, .... ?
That might be a good cue for yet another chapter to this saga.
Going, going, going, .... ?
sneakytitz
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They were waiting for HFBoards to get our bid together
Perhaps, but I think it's pretty clear that the NHL was prepared to turn a blind eye to a "fraud" in the longstanding Coyotes saga.
Really, this wasn't so much a market issue as it was the failure to clear out the detritus of a string of financial, ownership and municipal snafus that saddled the franchise with too much baggage.
Best way forward is probably allowing for a completely fresh slate in a few years and hoping that the right ownership emerges with a positive relationship with local governments. In a way, you wonder whether it wouldn't have been better if the NHL had pulled the plug and started the reset in Arizona earlier.
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This is how I’m perceiving it….
Meruelo was presuming the land was zoned for an arena based on another project that was approved under the same zoning up in North Phoenix a few years back. COP has been saying “hold on a minute.”
Now…. Tie in the Theme Park District bill (HB2274) that just made its way through the legislature. Its language originally had cut cities out of the process, but was recently put back in via a late amendment. The bill passed and afaik still sits on the governor’s desk at this point.
So what it looks like now is COP wants a special use permit for the arena. In addition to all the other infrastructure guidlines they specified in the auction package.
Whether that satisfies the zoning issue I don’t know.
But what this shows is there were things going on in the background that haven’t been resolved yet.
The land trust doesn’t want to sell a parcel unless there’s a clear plan in place so they’ve decided to cancel the 6/27 auction until this permit COP wants is rectified (or not).
Well...that cinches that. There's no way Meruelo can meet the NHL's deadline.
I'm sensing a certain number of personages, to probably include the guy from Scottsdale who had some issues, all figured out a way to make this "go away."
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awfulwaffle
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It's getting more and more difficult. I know people don't like AM, but he was the best hope for bringing hockey back quickly to AZ. If he fails, I don't see anything possibly happening until 2037 at minimum. This is when the suns lease is up. Ishbia might want a new arena at that point, and could very well try to work with the COP and get an arena that can work for both hockey and basketball.
I just don't see anyone trying to enter the NHL market by building an arena in Phoenix or other areas, especially with how unwilling the government in AZ seems to be on giving tax breaks and incentives.
I just don't see anyone trying to enter the NHL market by building an arena in Phoenix or other areas, especially with how unwilling the government in AZ seems to be on giving tax breaks and incentives.
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