Published: 1 years 185 days ago
Sacramento Bee: Taking an "if at first you don't succeed" approach, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is relaunching his efforts to get a new Kings arena built downtown.
The mayor is calling on developers once again to come up with proposals to replace aging Arco Arena – or "tweak" plans they previously proposed – and submit them to a task force Johnson is reconvening.
Johnson's task force will meet today, one year after the mayor first commissioned the group to act as community liaison for ideas on how to get an arena built.
That effort led to a contract between the city and a development team proposing a complicated, three-site land deal to build a downtown arena and new State Fair at the Arco site in Natomas. The proposal died this fall when the Cal Expo board declined to move the fair.
Johnson said this week that he will ask the task force to review any proposals submitted by the end of the year. The group will likely conduct a public hearing in late December or early January in which development teams will present their plans, Johnson said.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/18/3194206/sacramento-mayor-taking-another.html#ixzz15eKfNXW4
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