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Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Phoenix Suns
By Daniel Perle | Downtown Devil
Business owners from across the Valley came to Majerle’s Sports Grill in downtown Phoenix to voice strong support Friday evening for the city of Phoenix’s plan to renovate Talking Stick Resort Arena.
The forum, organized by Downtown Phoenix Inc., marks the end of a week filled with city-led public meetings on the proposed deal, under which the city and the Phoenix Suns would pump $230 million into renovating what Community and Economic Development Director Christine Mackay called “the oldest arena in the NBA to not be renovated.”
“I would argue without [Talking Stick Resort Arena]… you wouldn’t see the billion dollars of construction under development in downtown Phoenix today,” Mackay said to a crowd of dozens who were nearly universal in their support for the plan.
