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ECONorthwest’s economic assessment of this plan shows it will create roughly $100B of “impact” over the next 20 years.

This is the most damning thing in this entire Moda center renovation. The State knew that Dundon was coming in. He told them he wanted a 100% publicly funded deal, and they immediately capitulated. They didn't price the deal or negotiate with Dundon & the NBA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybu9...

Should taxpayers renovate the Moda Center?YouTube video by KGW Newswww.youtube.com

Blazers' Hankins: The first-class standard "is a relic... would not be included in any new deal with the city" and the bridge lease suspends "the city's ability to make those claims during the lease" [00:11:00]. If the litigation threat is suspended, then why stall?

Today we also learned how the $573M ask came about: Blazers’ 2021 “could do” list ≈ $800M ↓ Blazers reduce it to a “should do” list ≈ $600M ↓ NBA says that general scale seems appropriate for an arena of Moda’s age and market ↓