Seriously though I hope this arena goes in at K St mall. It'll bring downtown back. The Mayor is doing a great job.
It'd bring it back in a way I think none of us could even imagine.
Hell, my parent's are typical Placer county, Tea Party folks (the idiots who are mainly PORK and against this project) and after talking to them for a bit about the downtown arena, they are all on board for it and see the potential, growth, and enrichment of the Sacramento area/region.
Its not the arena thats going to bring in tax dollars, it'll be the businesses that build and grow around it or the already existing businesses that will gain even more patronage with the support of a complex that will bring in a major attraction 200+ times a year throughout the year, not just during the NBA season (and hopefully the playoffs soon
). And those existing business will put the profit right back in to the community for more growth and expansion, and hopefully someday Sacramento can be considered a destination city or at the very least a major city, not just a small government town.
And while all that is happening, the influx of spending and economic inflow will only rake in more tax dollars for parks, school, police, ******g community pools, or just anything that the nay-sayers want rather than building this downtown arena.
Those people need to take off those blinders and look forward.
I have some older friends who were born and raised in LA and they said pre-Staples Center, Sacramento right now is more lively right now already (all things considered) than LA was. So just imagine what a development led by Burkle will do
