NBA coming back to Seattle?!?

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Lemon Drop wrote:
That's not exactly what happened MAVIC. It was the state legislature that stepped in and approved the funding after the county council's measure was narrowly defeated. The cost of Safeco was originally estimated at $350 million, and the owners put up $150 million or so.


October 14, 1995 - A special session of the state legislature authorizes a different funding package for a new stadium that includes a food and beverage tax in King County restaurants and bars, car rental surcharge in King County, a ballpark admissions tax, a credit against the state sales tax, and sale of a special stadium license plate.
http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/ball...nt=history

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.

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AllGold wrote:
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What's not to love? (new U of W Husky stadium in Seattle)

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."?

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M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
That's not exactly what happened MAVIC. It was the state legislature that stepped in and approved the funding after the county council's measure was narrowly defeated. The cost of Safeco was originally estimated at $350 million, and the owners put up $150 million or so.


October 14, 1995 - A special session of the state legislature authorizes a different funding package for a new stadium that includes a food and beverage tax in King County restaurants and bars, car rental surcharge in King County, a ballpark admissions tax, a credit against the state sales tax, and sale of a special stadium license plate.
http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/ball...nt=history

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/LF...-01MLB.pdf

Total deal approved by the King county council: $517 million
county bonds to be used: $336 million

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M A V I C wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
What's not to love? (new U of W Husky stadium in Seattle)

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/2...qa07m.html