Sentences with phrase «basketball arena»

Former lobbyist Todd Howe ended his testimony on Thursday, claiming that Cuomo yelled at him after a deal to build a new basketball arena in downtown Syracuse fell apart.

Gov. Scott Walker proposed a plan Tuesday that calls for Wisconsin to help build a new basketball arena for the Milwaukee Bucks with $ 220 million in bonds that would be funded by projected growth in income taxes from NBA players.

By Kentucky standards the 2,000 - seat basketball arena at Georgia Tech is a minor affair — the University of Kentucky gym seats 11,500.

The convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center, a professional basketball arena in the southern outskirts of the city, included appearances last night by celebrities Katy Perry, Kareem Abdul - Jabbar, Sheila E., and Carole King.

Each Wednesday, thousands of us from Liberty and our local community gather in the 10,000 - seat basketball arena on our campus, or in the sanctuary of Lynchburg's Thomas Road Baptist Church, but this week they're both unavailable.

THE LLOYD NOBLE CENTER, Oklahoma's 41 - year - old basketball arena, is a concrete island in the middle of a parking lot sea, set far enough from other campus buildings that on nongame nights, one of its practice gyms can secretly double as the most deafening and exclusive dancehall - reggae club in Tornado Alley.

The future of California's legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising «USA Home Grown» dangles from a wall.

The more I considered it, the more I knew that I was watching, there in that outsized basketball arena, an authentic reflection of the deeply felt needs of a rootless, churchless people to identify with some specific religious spot, even if it were so long ago and far away as to be irretrievable.

«From basketball arenas to marches we are gonna keep Stephon Clark's name alive.»

A lively Milwaukee Common Council committee hearing over public financing for a new basketball arena revealed a higher price tag for the city's contribution to the project and new opposition from the community activist group Common Ground.

Striving to increase the visibility of the Green Party in Brooklyn, Gloria ran for borough president in 2005 on an anti-eminent-domain platform, focusing on the mega-development of a professional basketball arena and high - rise luxury housing in the Atlantic Yards.

With the Milwaukee Common Council set to review its portion of the public financing for a new $ 500 million basketball arena on Monday, city officials have announced an agreement with a mortgage - servicing company connected to Wesley Edens, an owner of the Bucks franchise.

The old basketball arena is on the main artery road on campus (the Dean Dome is separated but isn't too far away), and the football stadium is in the middle of things.

During Mackey's 29 - year career, Purdue's athletic facilities grew to include a $ 5.5 million, 14,000 - seat basketball arena and a 69,000 - seat football stadium — all without state appropriations.

Next AD needs to address facilities in a big way; even though MD has new basketball arena and Cole is an outstanding addition for MD sports, the football stadium is a joke and Ludwig should be expanded (to include locker rooms, etc.) for soccer and MLAX.

There's a hockey and basketball arena downtown, and three new parks that will extend the riverfront trail.

«I'm not much interested in that subject,» he said, to laughter from the crowd assembled in a basketball arena in Omaha, Neb..

We could have seen a great revival happen in that basketball arena that night.

Demonstrators surrounded a basketball arena in downtown Sacramento to protest the police killing another unarmed black man.

It was in 1991, as McCartney waited to address PK's first large gathering in the basketball arena at Colorado.

He's scrolling through his phone on a hot afternoon in June, waiting for Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards on the tarmac of LSU's basketball arena, so the pair can tape a flooding - preparation PSA.

The basketball arena is visible down the third - base line of the ballpark, with a large, open area behind the left - field foul pole providing a clear view.

UT is trying to find a new spot for their basketball arena and so far have been denied their preferred choices downtown and they basically run the town.

This is the EXACT reason why you can not build a basketball arena and try to turn it into a hockey arena.

When I was in college, someone told me Jackson came as a visiting opponent with the Auburn baseball team and launched a home run out of the park and onto the roof of the basketball arena next door.

During those times, according to local reporting, Quinnipiac was in the midst of «a building boom,» including «a new, $ 52 million hockey and basketball arena» while also «freezing senior management salaries, ending job searches, and reducing operating budgets by 5 percent.»

Him with his $ 50,000 getting bathrooms painted in the basketball arena, or what I do with not even a quarter of that much money?»

Chaifetz donated $ 12 million to his alma mater, St. Louis University, where the basketball arena bears his name.

Former lobbyist Todd Howe claimed that Cuomo yelled at him when a deal to build a basketball arena in Syracuse fell apart

Meanwhile Bruce Ratner has moved ahead on his project, reaping government help, razing buildings and building much of a basketball arena for the still New Jersey Nets.

«The most pressing need in this city is not for a basketball arena,» she insisted.

«This election is about climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet,» Sanders told the audience packing the basketball arena.

«[It is] a water - filled void about the size of a professional basketball arena,» says James Chatters of firm Applied Paleoscience in Washington DC.

Mass - market single - day presentations by Tony Robbins must be held in basketball arenas and convention centers.

Stadium Cribs offers pet beds modeled after the football stadiums and basketball arenas of the top NCAA teams in the country.

Plans also include an Olympic - sized swimming pool, a work - out center, a tennis complex with lighted courts, and a basketball arena, all to be located near the clubhouse.

The Hyatt Place Lincoln / Downtown - Haymarket is located in the new West Haymarket district, in close proximity to the University of Nebraska's football stadium and basketball arena.

The basketball arena is another success story.

Around that time, the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks were agitating for a new basketball arena to replace the outdated BMO Harris Bradley Center, and CARW saw opportunity in dovetailing its work in Park East with the business community's efforts to keep pro basketball in the city.