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$375-Mil Stadium Project Clears AG, FAA Hurdles

TEMPE, AZ-Two major hurdles are out of the way for a $375-million Arizona Cardinals stadium in Tempe. The state Attorney General upholds the site selection process while the FAA clears the decks by raising the landing altitude. More battles, though, loom.

By D.J. Burrough | Updated on September 06, 2001

TEMPE, AZ-In a twist of irony, the state Attorney General has rejected a legal challenge from opponents of the $375-million Arizona Cardinals stadium on the same day that ground was to break. The project has been in a holding pattern for a month while the AG’s office weighed the case.

But not all obstacles have been cleared with the decision by Attorney General Janet Napolitano. Opponents claimed the 72,000-sf project posed air safety problems and argued that backers skirted the law by not including the Tempe site in those made public prior to the November 2000 vote for the new stadium.

“So long as there was some sites available prior to the election…presumably so the voters would know that should they approve the referendum there would be some place for the contemplated stadium to go…the law is satisfied,” Napolitano said in her ruling.

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