February 01, 2004
Rich still won't cough it up
Three years after his last failed attempt to shake loose public money for a new basketball arena, Orlando Magic owner (and Amway founder) Rich DeVos is once again levying arena demands. True to form, these included both the stick of a veiled move threat ("It really comes down to, 'Do you want a professional sports team?'") and the carrot of promised economic windfall: "The business it would produce . . . people at the restaurants, bars. Everything would be alive again." We can only imagine how that would translate into Chinese.
Posted by Neil deMause
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