llipgh2 wrote:My friend lives in Seattle. He said funding for a new arena (for basketball and hockey) was on the ballot twice and lost twice. He doesn't see it going to ballot a third time. If a new arena is built, it would have to be almost exclusively private funding.
The main reason the Sonics left was because they couldn't get a new building. From what I've been told the current place is rather dated.
Paul Allen was interested in hockey, but only if there was a new arena.
The vote to build safeco field was also defeated, they built it anyway. Along with however many other vote results were ignored by this place.
