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Tempe Emerges Victor in Hard-fought Battle for $335-mil Cardinals Stadium

PHOENIX-After months of wrangling, Tempe wins bid for a $335-million football stadium for the Arizona Cardinals.

By D.J. Burrough | Updated on February 13, 2001

PHOENIX-In a landslide victory that’s sure to kick off dozens of sympathetic projects, Tempe was selected today as the site for a new $335-million stadium for the Arizona Cardinals.

After a three-month selection process, the Tourism and Sports Authority voted 7 to 2 this morning to build the voter-supported football stadium on a 60-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Loop 202 and Priest Drive, just north of the Tempe Town Lake. The TSA rejected a site proposed by the West Valley, the other finalist for the 73,000-seat stadium. Earlier in the process, the TSA eliminated potential sites in downtown Phoenix, on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and along the Tempe/Mesa border.

Construction of the stadium is on a fast track to ready it for the NFL season beginning in August 2004. Construction engineers will begin surveying the parcel on Thursday in preparation for an August 2001 groundbreaking. Much of the stadium has already been designed, but engineers will need to adapt the plan to the Tempe site.

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