“1/2: A statement from Arielle Devorah, spokesperson for Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego:
“Mayor Gallego had a productive meeting with Alex Meruelo and his family a few weeks ago, and they spoke about Mr. Meruelo’s plans to participate in the state land auction and, if successful,…
2/2: develop the north Phoenix site. The mayor believes professional hockey can thrive in the desert, but also made clear that she does not support using taxpayer funds, including property tax abatement, for sports arenas.”
GaryBettmanMyHomie
I’d love to know what the number of professional sports venues is in this country that not only never took a public dollar for construction but also never got a tax break. It’s got to be either zero or something in the single digits, right?
Ashleynn
Every other major devlopment in the state gets property tax abatements. But apparently because this one has a hockey arena it’s a problem.
The fucked part of all of this is take away the arena, this gets zero pushback from anyone with any sense. Add the arena and all of the sudden it’s a problem.
xASUdude
She won’t be Mayor forever.
Ashleynn
Also, just to dive this home even more. Footprint gets tax funds directly. Chase has been offered a theme park, though in fairness that’s Maricopa. Footprint alone makes this statement extremely hypocritical.
terminalhockey11
This is great, maybe she’s the one who gets us rid of AM and company. Maybe someone else would get the abatement who they see as a better long term partner
pazuzusoze
Politician being a politician.
azsoup
I guess AM needs to make semi conductors in that arena if he wants tax breaks.
troyboy75
How is hockey supposed to “thrive in the desert” if you’re opposed to the team building their own arena Kate? What else could they possibly even do?
ProJoe
Fuck Meruelo. I hope he loses
Rjenky1
What I don’t understand is most businesses get tax breaks and abatements so why can’t this privately funded arena get a few breaks. What’s wrong with that? The arena and the surrounding things will bring in alot of tax revenue for the city and they won’t be responsible for anything else but collecting the taxes.
Technical_Foot5243
Arizona remains one of the dumbest states in the country to do business. Bunch of moronic residents who’ve been too baked in the sun. Most high dollar developments receive tax incentives to some degree. But an arena is the problem. Got it.
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“1/2: A statement from Arielle Devorah, spokesperson for Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego:
“Mayor Gallego had a productive meeting with Alex Meruelo and his family a few weeks ago, and they spoke about Mr. Meruelo’s plans to participate in the state land auction and, if successful,…
2/2: develop the north Phoenix site. The mayor believes professional hockey can thrive in the desert, but also made clear that she does not support using taxpayer funds, including property tax abatement, for sports arenas.”
I’d love to know what the number of professional sports venues is in this country that not only never took a public dollar for construction but also never got a tax break. It’s got to be either zero or something in the single digits, right?
Every other major devlopment in the state gets property tax abatements. But apparently because this one has a hockey arena it’s a problem.
The fucked part of all of this is take away the arena, this gets zero pushback from anyone with any sense. Add the arena and all of the sudden it’s a problem.
She won’t be Mayor forever.
Also, just to dive this home even more. Footprint gets tax funds directly. Chase has been offered a theme park, though in fairness that’s Maricopa. Footprint alone makes this statement extremely hypocritical.
This is great, maybe she’s the one who gets us rid of AM and company. Maybe someone else would get the abatement who they see as a better long term partner
Politician being a politician.
I guess AM needs to make semi conductors in that arena if he wants tax breaks.
How is hockey supposed to “thrive in the desert” if you’re opposed to the team building their own arena Kate? What else could they possibly even do?
Fuck Meruelo. I hope he loses
What I don’t understand is most businesses get tax breaks and abatements so why can’t this privately funded arena get a few breaks. What’s wrong with that? The arena and the surrounding things will bring in alot of tax revenue for the city and they won’t be responsible for anything else but collecting the taxes.
Arizona remains one of the dumbest states in the country to do business. Bunch of moronic residents who’ve been too baked in the sun. Most high dollar developments receive tax incentives to some degree. But an arena is the problem. Got it.