Capital Public Radio examines the four proposals facing city planners for a new site to replace Arco Arena.
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UPDATE
1/21/2011
The Sacramento First citizens' committee has released its
rankings of the four proposals. In its report to the Mayor and
the City Council titled "The Next Steps," the committee cites
the ICON/Taylor plan as its first choice,
followed in order by CORE, Convergence and Natomas.
Click here to read the full Next Steps report
(pdf)
For much of the past decade, Sacramento city officials and
business leaders have contemplated building a new facility to
replace the aging Arco Arena, home to the Sacramento Kings NBA
basketball team and an assortment of touring concerts and
events. Here's a brief history:
In November of 2006, voters soundly rejected two tax measures
that would have funded a new arena.
In 2007, the NBA began two years of exclusive negotiations with
the board that runs the State Fair, only to have that plan fizzle
out.
In 2009, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson created the Sacramento
First Task Force, a citizens' committee tasked with developing
a plan for a new sports and entertainment complex in
Sacramento. But the panel's top choice, a complex three-way
land swap, stalled on a number of fronts.
Now, the Task Force is trying again. It's weighing
proposals from four groups. We're examining all of them
in-depth in a series of segments on
Insight. You can listen to those
segments below. You can also listen to recent Capital Public
Radio news reports - and look back at Arena stories from previous
years.
The Natomas Plan
Jeff Baize, who represents the Natomas ESC
Partners plan, talks about why he thinks building a new site in the
Natomas area make more sense than building in downtown
Sacramento.
Natomas team proposal
update (pdf)

Developer
David
Taylor and his partners want to build a new sports and
entertainment complex in the downtown railyards, where they believe
it will have the greatest impact on the Sacramento community.
ICON/Taylor team proposal update, part 1
The Convergence Plan
Developer Gerry Kamilos explains how his new
Convergence plan is different from the one that collapsed last
year.
Ali Mackani represents the CORE team, which
stands for Community Organized Redevelopment
Effort, which hopes to "realize the vision of a
downtown entertainment and sports complex that would transform one
of the City's most challenging areas, the downtown core."