August 31, 2007
Spurs: Money all gone, send more
The San Antonio Spurs are asking Bexar County to extend its car rental and hotel tax to provide between $75 million and $164 million in improvements to their AT&T Center. Because, you know, it was built way back in the second season of 24.
The added public subsidies are needed, team officials say, to "keep the Spurs competitive." Because playing in that broken-down five-year-old wreck of an arena, the Spurs have only been able to win three of the last five NBA titles.
Given the fact that arenas seem to always need updating, one would think that there would be a capital improvements budget for the at&t center that would draw money from the rents charged to use it. There ought to be some kind of sustainability plan for the center. I plan to vote "NO" when this comes up on the ballot.
Posted by Michel Ferguson on September 4, 2007 01:44 PM