The Golden State Warriors’ plans for a $1 billion, 18,000-seat arena in San Francisco’s Mission Bay are suddenly running into big-time political problems, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Warriors plan is facing unanticipated opposition by the Mission Bay Alliance, a newly formed group of wealthy UCSF donors and bioscience executives.
The alliance will spend millions to defeat the arena and has retained four law firms to fight it, according to Sam Singer, its spokesman.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco administrators are not affiliated with the alliance, instead offering tentative support of the arena as long as traffic and parking issues can be ironed out, reports SFC..
Beyond the traffic issue, project opponents say the 11 acres the Warriors are planning to build on should be set aside for biotech or medical research. Singer accused the Warriors of “trying to create another Fisherman’s Wharf in Mission Bay” and “trading future biosciences for a sports arena.
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