SACRAMENTO, CA-Controversy continued to swirl this week around a planned new basketball arena that would keep an NBA franchise in the California Capitol.
A year ago, the Sacramento Kings had been contemplating a move to any one of several larger markets including Seattle, Anaheim and Virginia Beach. But more recently, the team's owners have forged a deal with Sacramento for private/public funding of a new $448 million arena at Downtown Plaza.
That plan has not been without opposition however, and just this week it was revealed that a petition drive to halt the arena (or at least allow more public input) was paid for by a decidedly interested party—Chris Hansen, a Seattle financier who would like to buy the team and move it up the coast to his home town.
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David Phillips
David Phillips is a Chicago-based freelance writer and consultant with more than 20 years experience in business and community news. He also has extensive reporting experience in the food manufacturing industry for national trade publications.
