{"id":164467,"date":"2025-08-21T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164467\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:40:13","slug":"live-updates-san-antonio-leaders-vote-on-the-future-of-project-marvel-the-downtown-development-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164467\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: San Antonio leaders vote on the future of Project Marvel, the downtown development project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            Posted<\/p>\n<p>                August 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of members from the Spurs organization, including Chairman Peter J. Holt and former championship-winning Spurs player Sean Elliott, spoke to the council in support of the project moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say without hesitation that no other professional sports franchise engages the community like the San Antonio Spurs do,\u201d Elliot said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Spurs\u2019 commitment to the city is what have made so many former players like him choose to stay in San Antonio after their careers ended.<\/p>\n<p>Holt said the $2 billion investment the Spurs were making was historic and led to a positive outcome for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The arena will be \u201cowned by the public, paid by tourists, and operated by the Spurs,\u201d Holt said \u2014 a \u201cwinning combination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs arena would be owned by a subsidiary entity controlled by the city, and a large portion of the funding coming from the county and city would be from taxes levied on tourists staying in local hotels and renting vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted August 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM CDT Dozens of members from the Spurs organization, including Chairman Peter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-164467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115068222041195353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}