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>>Fans who made deposits on North Dakota State hockey tickets will get their money back now that voters have rejected a sales->tax proposal to pay for a new arena.
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>I don't understand. I thought that the new ND arena was a done deal as a result of the $50 million contribution from that wealthy alumnus (Englestadt?). Why would there need to be a sales tax proposal at all?
The big wad of cash from Englestad is for the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks. The sales tax proposal was for a new arena in Fargo, for North Dakota State. Had the referendum passed, NDSU would have started up men's and women's hockey programs.
That said, I think that returning the deposits and apparently abandoning
the drive for Division I hockey shows a distinct lack of creativity by NDSU.
I would think an arena for an already-existing team would be more popular
than one for a team that may start in a couple of years. NDSU could play in the Fargo Coliseum, or investigate making ice in the Fargodome, in the short term, while waiting for a new arena to be built.
John
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