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<blockquote data-quote="froginaustin" data-source="post: 2177280" data-attributes="member: 785"><p> </p><p>I doubt it. UTx (or Powers/Dodds, anyway) is/was trying to sell a partnership to the City of Austin for a multi-events center. The present City government wants to spend a TON of money, some of it local as opposed to State or federal, on transportation upgrades (thank God), and the City has already signed on for expensive upgrades to the Convention Center. The first feelers by UTx were discouraged by City government.</p><p> </p><p>Judging from the failure of the last bond election to pay for more commuter/light rail, the taxpayers may be about tapped out for the next few years at least. We are already paying a property tax to fund the Dell Medical School, and I think that property tax was a lot easier sell, politically, than building a gold-plated basketball facility will be.</p><p> </p><p>UTx has several problems building the basketball house of their dreams, with perhaps the biggest one, besides construction cost, being the unavailability of a suitable tract of land anywhere near the UTx campus.</p><p> </p><p>I think the med school students may be walking past the Irwin Center for quite some time. Just guessing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="froginaustin, post: 2177280, member: 785"] I doubt it. UTx (or Powers/Dodds, anyway) is/was trying to sell a partnership to the City of Austin for a multi-events center. The present City government wants to spend a TON of money, some of it local as opposed to State or federal, on transportation upgrades (thank God), and the City has already signed on for expensive upgrades to the Convention Center. The first feelers by UTx were discouraged by City government. Judging from the failure of the last bond election to pay for more commuter/light rail, the taxpayers may be about tapped out for the next few years at least. We are already paying a property tax to fund the Dell Medical School, and I think that property tax was a lot easier sell, politically, than building a gold-plated basketball facility will be. UTx has several problems building the basketball house of their dreams, with perhaps the biggest one, besides construction cost, being the unavailability of a suitable tract of land anywhere near the UTx campus. I think the med school students may be walking past the Irwin Center for quite some time. Just guessing. [/QUOTE]
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