Cal Expo Rejects Land Swap; Kings Arena Plan Reels

hello Thunder Valley Arena

 Hopefully they can come up with something. Kevin Johnson, Kamilos seem really determined though to get a new arena built downtown. Something will get done folks, Sacramento needs to step up especially if KJ wants Sacramento to become a destination city!

attend ANY Cal Expo event again. Ever! Easyriders, concerts, State Fair, you name it. Not a single $ is going their way for the rest of my lifetime. A$$HOLES!

It’s like certain people got spoiled by the winning years and now don’t see them as a good investment. What happened to the days when we were just happy to have a professional sports franchise. While it may not be the main reason people are opposed to the arena, look at Seattle and how much they were hurt by the move of the sonics and they have two other teams to fall back on!!! WTF is wrong with people.!!! This may not sound very rational right now but I’m just pissed. I have faith though that something will get done even though it doesn’t seem like it right now. I’m done reading the comments in the Bee articles. Screw those people, yeah I said it…

KINGS PLAYOFFS 2012

had I previously had any intention of ever going there in the first place.

I’ve been twice: Waterworld as a middle school kid on a class trip, and the State Fair, once, to see The Bangles on a reunion tour, because Susanna Hoff, man. Susanna Hoff.

That want to keep thier petty power and keep feeding off the taxpayer till

I agree, Slamson. I agree.

Cal Expo’s thinking “Why is Kamilos paying us so much now to get his hands on our land? What does he see in it? He probably is going to turn the land around and sell it for billions. Well, we’ll show him. We’ll keep on to our land and sell it for billions ourselves! Who’s the idiot now?”

In the long run having to deal with these guys would have been a frequent headache. What comes next I don’t know, but I am confident it gets done. If nothing else because the economy sucks everywhere not just sactown.

Then, this land swap would’ve worked out even better, but it had to be voted on by the Cal Expo Board, and it’s voted down. The issue here seems to be that we keep letting people vote on these things. Here’s the new plan: Mayor Johnson convinces Governor Schwarzenegger to declare a State of Emergency in Sacramento, due to the idiocy outbreak that’s crippling progress in the city. This gives the mayor the power to address the idiocy problem without having to go through the normal bureaucratic channels. Wham. Bam. The Kings open the 2014 season downtown in beautiful new Schwarzenegger Arena.

You have to pay attention to the story from start to finish. Right from the start it was reported by the Bee that Cal Expo is 100% self supporting and that their deficit for this year would come ouf of there own coffers and not the general fund and that legally no money from the general fund can go to Cal Expo. That is why Cal Expo got involved initially, because there is no money coming from taxpayers to fix up the facility.

What are they supposed to do? Somebody paid those consultants a lot of money for a feasability study and they came back the recommendation that “it wasn’t feasable”.

I’m a huge King’s fan but to think the City, State,NBA and two developers were ever going to make this work defies logic. I’m glad this is over so no more time needs to be wasted on something that wasn’t going to work in the first place. Now let’s move on to plan 44 or whichever one we are on now but hopefully something a little more realistic will be initiated.

My last post may have sounded more negative than intended. LIke I said I am a huge Kings fan. Season ticket holder for 23 years. I would vote for a tax payer funded arena in a heartbeat because I think a quality big time arena would be great for our city or any city. I’d love to see some of my hard earned tax money going toward something I can get some use out of for a change instead of what it gets wasted on now.

I just want to see something presented that is realistic and actually has a chance of materializing.

Damn Ziller always stealing my thunder..At least i know i beat you by 3 minutes!

I don’t feel bad about this whole thing anyway because I feel that Kamilos will find another way to build the arena without Cal Expo being involved. Seeing that Sacramento isn’t built very well to begin with, this land swap would have made some things right as in putting a state of the art arena downtown and and moving the fair to a more spacious area rather than where it’s couped up in now. With a much more improved team coming in this season and the beyond we’ll be ready to rock the lights out in our new house!!!

I don’t feel bad about this whole thing anyway because I feel that Kamilos will find another way to build the arena without Cal Expo being involved. Seeing that Sacramento isn’t built very well to begin with, this land swap would have made some things right as in putting a state of the art arena downtown and and moving the fair to a more spacious area rather than where it’s couped up in now. With a much more improved team coming in this season and the beyond we’ll be ready to rock the lights out in our new house!!!

I’m moving with them, I swear.

I know a lot of people in Sacramento don’t want the Kings to get a new facility. Don’t know if it’s just that they hate sports, or wanna be difficult, but whatever.

power trip , screw cal-expo!

Going to Cal Expo is like going to a giant Walmart, I have to take a shower when I get home and de-lice.

…I must share in some agreement with ASSN’s post above. Anyone who thinks that the current visibility of Cal Expo from the freeway is better in comparison to the Arco Park complex is either a) blind; b) a moron; or c) a Los Angeleno.

With that said, the 7-2 vote of the Cal Expo board is a bit of a message to the folks behind the Convergence, that being (I believe) that they felt like they were being taken along for a ride in this whole circus, and I believe they felt that their views and their priorities in this whole situation were, at best, a tertiary concern (behind those of the Maloofs and the Kamilos group).

The Board could have delayed, or waited the extra 30 days to see what Kamilos came up with, but instead basically said “logic be damned, GTFO.”

And so, the Convergence is pretty much deader than dogshit, but not in a manner that will satisfy anyone, because I believe the Convergence has not gotten its full hearing by the Cal Expo board.

Folks, if the Kings are to remain in town, in all likelihood the only way for that to happen is either with a) Arco 3.0 on the baseball stadium site, or b) Arco 2.1 on the existing building footprint with the team playing for one season down in Stockton while the rebuild happens.

That also means that the Maloofs are probably going to have to shoulder a much larger chunk of the payment for that to happen.

This is simple. There was over a million dollars spent on study that recommended to the Cal Expo board not to pursue the convergence plan. Case closed. That’s it. Their board is NOT going to go against that. Use some common sense peeps.
If the Kamilos group didn’t put the best offer on the table to be studied, shame on them. They blew it.

I spent 5 hours of my life reading the Cal Expo report. Their #‘s weren’t even close to what the Kamilos group put out. NOT EVEN CLOSE. IT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN FOLKS, so let’s get busy and get something going that has a chance at working.

at least we still have the River Cats and Moutain Lions… There’s some top notch sports entertainment right there.