"Tomorrow, December 11th, the Beach City Council is expected to vote overwhelmingly to continue negotiations on the project giving state leaders the confidence that from a local level, everybody is on board. For now." "Asking for state funds to pay the owners of the Kings George and Gavin Maloff, may be a deal breaker, and this deal is fragile enough." "And the many people associated with the project that I have talked to said there does not seem to be a chance the arena can be built without both the state money and without a long term lease signed by the Kings."