Talks on a new downtown venue for the NBA team began more than a year ago. But the city and Spurs still won't say what it will cost or who would pay.
If the plan is to ask taxpayers to help pay for a new downtown Spurs arena, the city of San Antonio, Bexar County and the NBA franchise will need a new plan. The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Public Opinion Research has gauged voter support for a potential Spurs move from the Frost Bank Center on the East Side to the center city in two recent polls. The latest, released Monday, showed that San Antonians aren't really into it.
Project Marvel': City's downtown plans go well beyond a new Spurs arena The online poll surveyed almost 700 registered San Antonio voters from Sept. 11-16. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.7%. About 41% of respondents said they were opposed to a Spurs relocation, while 35.6% said they wanted it to happen. The remaining 23.3% either had no opinion or didn't know what to make of the idea.
What you need to know about a potential Spurs arena in downtown San Antonio In other words, the idea appears to be losing ground. Here's the question as posed in both polls: 'There is talk that the city of San Antonio may be working with the San Antonio Spurs basketball team to build a new arena for the Spurs downtown near Hemisfair and the Alamodome.
Inside the city’s secret effort to woo Spurs to a new downtown arena I asked Bryan Gervais why. He's a UTSA political science professor and director of the polling center. Gervais pointed out that the undertaking has been shrouded in secrecy. City officials have barely acknowledged their discussions with the Spurs, and neither side has said anything about how much an arena would cost or how it might be financed.
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