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Re: NBA coming back to Seattle?!? - M A V I C - 01-11-2013 Lemon Drop wrote: You missed the bit right after that: October 23, 1995 - King County Council approves the funding package and establishes the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District to own the ballpark and oversee design and construction. The council can only approve things of $100M or less, like I said. That's all they approved. Re: NBA coming back to Seattle?!? - M A V I C - 01-11-2013 AllGold wrote: What's not to love are those overhangy roof things that will kill a lot of people when they collapse. (Not to mention funnel craploads of rain water onto select rows of unfortunate fans.) Hopefully, the artist's conception is not accurate for that part. ![]() Exactly. Thousands of local students were denied access to the UofW because of lack of money... meanwhile they could have chosen not to renovate the stadium and more than funded all of those students. What's to love about telling students "You don't get to go to college, even though you and your parents have paid taxes to allow you to. Instead, we're going to upgrade the football stadium."? Re: NBA coming back to Seattle?!? - Lemon Drop - 01-11-2013 M A V I C wrote: You missed the bit right after that: October 23, 1995 - King County Council approves the funding package and establishes the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District to own the ballpark and oversee design and construction. The council can only approve things of $100M or less, like I said. That's all they approved. Eh, no. Here's the actual approved deal, dollar amounts included. This is really easy to google you know. http://www.leg.wa.gov/JointCommittees/LFOKC/Documents/2008-10-01MLB.pdf Total deal approved by the King county council: $517 million county bonds to be used: $336 million Re: NBA coming back to Seattle?!? - Lemon Drop - 01-11-2013 M A V I C wrote: What's not to love are those overhangy roof things that will kill a lot of people when they collapse. (Not to mention funnel craploads of rain water onto select rows of unfortunate fans.) Hopefully, the artist's conception is not accurate for that part. ![]() Exactly. Thousands of local students were denied access to the UofW because of lack of money... meanwhile they could have chosen not to renovate the stadium and more than funded all of those students. What's to love about telling students "You don't get to go to college, even though you and your parents have paid taxes to allow you to. Instead, we're going to upgrade the football stadium."? Except NO public money was used to build this stadium. It was built with private donations. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2016706897_huskystadiumqa07m.html |