Published: 1 years 210 days ago
Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson told The Bee that he is reconvening his arena task force to examine proposals for a new facility now that a plan to build a sports arena downtown through a complicated land swap is officially dead.
Describing the land swap plan as a "three-headed monster," the mayor said the failure of that proposal has not diminished his optimism that a solution will be found to the city's years-long attempt to replace Arco Arena.
"We have a lot of goodwill that we've built up," the mayor said. "People feel a sense of renewed trust and confidence on a topic that no one wanted to talk about for years."
A negotiating agreement between City Hall and the team behind the land swap expires Monday, and officials will brief the City Council on Tuesday "on the next steps of how to 'reboot' the process" of building a new arena, Betty Masuoka, the city's consultant on the arena proposal, wrote in a memo.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/24/3127296/sacramento-mayor-will-call-task.html#ixzz13nWW0iPm
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