Coyotes concede defeat after Tempe voters reject hockey arena deal

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The Arizona Coyotes conceded defeat after Tempe voters rejected their proposed $2.1 billion development by a seemingly insurmountable margin, after all of the early ballots were counted Tuesday.

Maricopa County election officials said they counted some 29,153 ballots cast before Election Day. There were not enough same-day ballots left to count to overturn the losing margins.

Tuesday's unofficial tally shows similar trends among the three ballot items ― Propositions 301, 302 and 303 — all of which needed to receive a majority of "yes" votes in order for the Coyotes project to move forward. Each one was losing by a 56% to 44% margin, with the exception of Prop. 303, which was losing 57% to 43%.

The result, if confirmed, throws doubt over the future of the National Hockey League team, which had staked its future on a new arena and a related entertainment and residential project on the western fringe of Tempe Town Lake.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tempe-election-day-voters-decide-130221540.html

[underpants]

1. Good. Let the owners/leagues pay for it.

[AZ8theist]

4. The owners were going to pay for it. The project was self-funding.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Too bad, so sad..Tempe voters were paying attention..so now what,

do the Coyotes go running around the countryside with their tails between their legs..looking for a few good suckers!!!

Good for Tempe voters..

[LonePirate]

3. What's stopping the owner from buying land and building the arena with his own money?

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that arenas typically lose money unlike the people who lease arenas for other purposes, such as sporting events.

[AZ8theist]

5. This particular plot needed to be re-zoned.

I guess the citizens of Tempe would rather keep their landfill.

[marble falls]

6. This out on McDonald Road?

[AZ8theist]

8. No, it's Rio Salado and Priest here:

[marble falls]

11. Know it well.

[LonePirate]

7. What? There's local government who won't change a zoning law for a billionaire?

Or was that one of three initiatives which failed?

[AZ8theist]

9. Prop 301

[rsdsharp]

10. LOL. I'm not surprised. My brother is still complaining about the bond issue

for the baseball stadium. That was more than 30 years ago!

A couple of months ago my town rejected a bond issue for a $43 million “multipurpose facility.” It would have included a walking track, a pickle ball court and some meeting rooms. It needed 60% approval to pass. About 80% voted against it.