To: sally clark, seattle city council member
tell the seattle and king county councils to approve the nba/nhl arena!!!!!!!!!!
We the people of seattle and king county want the arena deal to be approved!
Why is this important?
Currently there are on going talks between an investor group(involving chris hansen, steve ballmer and the nordstroms) and the city of seattle as well as king county councils, to bring a new state of the art arena into seattle in order to have an nba team and an nhl team play in seattle. Mr Hansen and his group has a memoranda of understanding between the city of seattles mayor(mcginn), and his investor group on the proposal to build a new arena. Mr Hansen and his group are asking for $200 million in public bonding to aid in the construction of this new arena, and have agreed to pay all other costs of construction, a new nba team and any cost overruns or shortfalls throughout a 30 year binding lease. The bonds would be paid back via any taxes collected on use of the building. If you don't go to games, or set foot in the building you would never have to worry about being charged for it. If approved this deal would create 1000's of jobs and bring in billions of dollars into the economy in king county and seattle!This deal is about as good as it gets, yet the councils are dragging their collective feet and appear to be looking for reasons to reject it. Tell them you want it! Say yes! Bring back our sonics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!