{"id":107,"date":"2004-03-17T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2004-03-17T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:05:30","slug":"new_milwaukee_basketball_arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"New Milwaukee Basketball Arena?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><IMG height=\"74\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics.jsonline.com\/graphics\/news\/img\/mar04\/kohl1031604-125.jpg\" width=\"125\" border=0 alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<b>Must<\/b> we?<br \/>\nDon Walker writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl said Tuesday that it did not make sense to spend $50 million to $100 million to remodel the Bradley Center and said the community would have to discuss in the future the need for a new arena.<br \/>\nThe Democratic U.S. senator, noting that it had been a joy this season to own the team, said spending millions more to remodel the facility &#8220;would not extend its useful life.&#8221;<br \/>\nRather, he said, the Bradley Center board ought to consider more modest upgrades to the building that will generate new revenue for the Bucks.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Minnesota Legislative References Library <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.mn.us\/lrl\/issues\/sports.asp\">has a useful page<\/a> on Minnesota Issues facing Financing Professional Sports Facilities.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=public+financing+of+sports+facilities&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Google<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?fr=sfp&#038;p=public+financing+of+sports+facilities\">Yahoo Search<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=public+financing+of+sports+facilities&#038;qcat=1&#038;qsrc=0&#038;Search.x=27&#038;Search.y=10\">Teoma<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheweb.com\/search?avkw=fogg&#038;cat=web&#038;cs=utf-8&#038;q=public+financing+of+sports+facilities&#038;_sb_lang=pref\">All the web<\/a>]<br \/>\nEvidently, former Governor Tommy Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/mar04\/215092.asp\">recently destroyed papers<\/a> included those pertaining to the financing and construction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=miller+park+financing&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Miller Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must we? Don Walker writes: Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl said Tuesday that it did not make sense to spend $50 million to $100 million to remodel the Bradley Center and said the community would have to discuss in the future the need for a new arena. The Democratic U.S. senator, noting that it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}