The Star in Frisco<\/a> if you were wondering what the Stars say they have in mind.<\/p>\nAlberts\u2019 vision requires at least 75 acres, which might be more than Dallas is prepared to offer, if that\u2019s really what the Stars intend. Could be they\u2019ve already made up their minds and just want to make Dallas look like the bad guys. Jerry did the same when Laura Miller hesitated after he said he wanted to build his new stadium on the same footprint as the little ol\u2019 Cotton Bowl. He had no intention of planting JerryWorld at the State Fair, but he needed to act like he tried, and Laura took the fall.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t win \u2018em all, but too often Dallas doesn\u2019t even try. Or, worse, doesn\u2019t even know the game is on.<\/p>\n
By the way: Did I mention a City of Dallas spokesperson told The News this is the first they\u2019ve heard of any of this with the Stars? Tells you we need better spies, if nothing else.<\/p>\n
The fact that the city keeps finding itself in this position makes you wonder if our city manager form of government works in our best interests. No one blames city officials for the loss of not just one but two iterations of Texans. But, when Murchison despaired of the state of the Cotton Bowl in the mid-\u201960s and proposed a multi-use stadium downtown along the lines of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, his pleas fell on deaf ears. He subsequently took his team to Irving to build a stadium that let God watch His favorite team play, as D.D. Lewis put it.<\/p>\n
Dallas officials were so chastened by the loss of the Cowboys they waited just 40 years before dragging the Cotton Bowl into the 21st century.<\/p>\n
While we\u2019re at it, let\u2019s not forget the city\u2019s lack of foresight when it came to pirating the Rangers from Arlington, either.<\/p>\n
Back when they were still playing in a minor league park, the Rangers were ripe for the picking. Jerry Bartos, a Dallas city councilman, made a public pitch in the late \u201880s, but it never gained any traction. Not even when the George W. Bush-Rusty Rose group entertained offers for a new address.<\/p>\n
Dallas pushed the area adjacent to the Farmer\u2019s Market as well as tax abatements; the Rangers weren\u2019t impressed. Maybe they were just using Dallas for leverage with Arlington. Not the first or last time it\u2019s happened. Doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t play.<\/p>\n
The problem I wrote about in 1990 is the same problem now. No one\u2019s in charge. It\u2019s no wonder when you consider the pushback. When the late Bobby Folsom, a can-do mayor, built an arena on the western edge of town, critics called it \u201cFolsom\u2019s Folly\u201d or \u201cFolsom\u2019s Prism.\u201d Made a nice house for the Mavs when the NBA opened shop in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Ron Kirk provided a vision for a toxic site just north of downtown that weathered a grass-roots effort to quash it in one of the closest votes in city history. The result? The city\u2019s investment in American Airlines Center, capped at $125 million, has returned a private investment 25 years later of nearly $3 billion in Victory Park alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s more than a pretty good deal,\u201d Kirk told The News last year.<\/p>\n
But, in order to get just such a deal, you need someone riding point. As far as I can tell, the last thing Eric Johnson pitched came last year when he proposed a second NFL franchise for Dallas. Like Jerry would sanction that. He wouldn\u2019t allow another NFL team as close as San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the rejection must have been a blow to the mayor\u2019s ego, because he\u2019s pretty much been AWOL ever since.<\/p>\n
Chances are it\u2019s too late to keep the Stars, who tipped their hand when they moved their offices and practice facilities to the \u2018burbs.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the city won the Wings from Arlington! Just as soon as they finish reupholstering old Memorial Coliseum, a redo now more than a year in arrears. Hard to find parts of that vintage, probably.<\/p>\n
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