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Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:31 am
by Wolfay
It's
still hard to believe after all we've gone through, but tangible, PHYSICAL progress we can see with our eyes will finally be taking place less then 48 hours from now. LONG LIVE the Sacramento Kings! 1985-FOREVER.
The Sacramento Kings got the green light from the NBA today to build their new $477 million arena, setting the stage for preliminary demolition to begin early Friday at Downtown Plaza.
The league’s advisory/finance committee, consisting of 10 team owners, approved the Kings’ loan terms and lease arrangement with the city of Sacramento, Kings president Chris Granger said. With the NBA’s approval in hand, the team expected to close on a loan with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and have the first installment of its money wired late today or early Thursday.
Granger said work would begin at 5:30 a.m. Friday. He and Mayor Kevin Johnson will greet what’s expected to be an initial wave of 100 construction workers.
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/30/659433 ... rylink=cpy
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:38 pm
by ICMTM
Time to go old school...streaking in the plaza @ 5am Friday for old times sake...who's with me?
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:08 pm
by blind prophet
I was getting nervous once again.
Looks like the last of the last is finally done.
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:25 pm
by 408Kings
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Fri Aug 1, 2014 12:39 am
by Wolfay
blind prophet wrote:I was getting nervous once again.
Looks like the last of the last is finally done.
Nervous about what?
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Fri Aug 1, 2014 2:01 am
by blind prophet
Wolfay wrote:blind prophet wrote:I was getting nervous once again.
Looks like the last of the last is finally done.
Nervous about what?
Nothing actually being taken down or built. I'm more of a believe it when I see it with this topic after all we had been through.
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Fri Aug 1, 2014 3:58 pm
by ICMTM
But did you see me out there??? Perfect AM weather for an Old School run!
I think once people got off their idea of "lets drive to the arena and drive home" to hey it would be nice to have something to call our own downtown this was a wrap. It's really the 1st time people have bought into a city center. It's about time.
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Fri Aug 1, 2014 8:15 pm
by blind prophet
ICMTM wrote:But did you see me out there??? Perfect AM weather for an Old School run!
I think once people got off their idea of "lets drive to the arena and drive home" to hey it would be nice to have something to call our own downtown this was a wrap. It's really the 1st time people have bought into a city center. It's about time.
I own a forum not related to basketball, but I hope someone takes the time now to collect pictures and video of Arco before it is too late, hardly anything out there on the first arena when they first came here.
Also a timeline of events sort of things to capture the history of the Maloof proceedings etc.
If any of you guys run a forum or blog etc related to basketball or the Kings I'd certainly appreciate the historical value of this, as well as early construction with our new arena.
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:06 am
by Wolfay
Demolition is really picking up now, as they began tearing down the walls of the buildings on 5th and L today.
There's probably no turning back now.
The demolition of Downtown Plaza began in earnest early today, as the struggling shopping mall began giving way to the site of the new Sacramento Kings arena.
About a week after prep work started, a giant excavator tore out the walls of the southernmost building of Downtown Plaza, at Fifth and L streets. The building used to house, among other tenants, the Pre-Flite Lounge.
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/13/662560 ... rylink=cpy
Randy Pench of The Sacramento BeeThey also now have live streams set up!
http://www2.downeybrand.com/arena/arena.htmlhttp://sacramento.cbslocal.com/downtown-arena-webcam/http://sacramentoesc.com/live/There's also a public viewing window on 7th and K. I have yet to check it out.
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:17 am
by codydaze
Re: Arena financing complete! Demo of DT Plaza begins Friday
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:55 pm
by blind prophet
Thanks a ton for those live feeds man.
