For these exterior San Antonio, Mission Marvel is probably not in your radar. However right here in San Antonio, it’s all over.
In a nutshell, Mission Marvel boils all the way down to Propositions A & B on the November poll. It entails constructing a brand new area downtown for the San Antonio Spurs.
To date, I personally have obtained handouts on the Spurs scrimmage in addition to two 8 1/2 x 11 mailers supporting the measure. These informational leaflets state that the Spurs can pay $500 million on an estimated $1.3 billion greenback area. The remainder of the cash is scheduled to return via tourism, a 2% lodge occupancy tax.
One of many sheets states “We assure the Spurs keep in San Antonio for the following 30 years.”
This was particularly a degree on competition at a current city corridor the place San Antonio Spurs Common Counsel Bobby Perez refused to say whether or not the group would depart city if voters rejected Mission Marvel on the polls.
Varied metropolis council districts have been internet hosting city corridor conferences so constituents can ask questions and study extra concerning the attainable financing of latest Spurs dwelling.
Subsequent up, District Councilwoman Sukh Kaur will host a digital assembly on Tuesday, October twenty first from 5:30- 7:00 p.m. with San Antonio Metropolis Supervisor Erik Walsh.
The Spurs group has stood firmly behind each Props A & B, including their emblem, photos of a basketball, and images of the coyote on the varied supplies. There was opposition from native residents as nicely. Total, there have been questions, and these conferences have provided residents the possibility to ask earlier than early voting kicks off subsequent Monday.
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