{"id":308204,"date":"2025-10-16T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:01:11","slug":"ut-san-antonio-poll-reveals-attitudes-toward-project-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308204\/","title":{"rendered":"UT San Antonio poll reveals attitudes toward Project Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u00ad\u2014 Bexar County voters are slightly in favor of raising the county&#8217;s venue tax to expand the San Antonio Stock and Rodeo grounds over using the tax to fund a new San Antonio Spurs arena, according to a recent poll from the University of Texas at San Antonio\u2019s Center for Public Opinion Research. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked 660 Bexar County voters for their opinions about the two November ballot propositions associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/ut-san-antonio-president-supports-project-marvel-props\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Marvel<\/a>, a proposal for a new sports and entertainment district downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Around 44% of respondents said they would vote in favor of expanding the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo grounds (Proposition A), which includes the redevelopment of the Spurs&#8217; current arena at Frost Bank Center. About 15% of voters said they are unsure while 41% said they are against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Voters are slightly less supportive of using the tax to fund part of building a new arena for the Spurs. About 40% are in favor of using a venue tax to fund part of a $1.3 billion Spurs arena in Hemisfair, which is unchanged from attitudes expressed this April. However, those opposed to the proposition rose to 46% from 44%. Around 14% of voters remain unsure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport for ballot propositions is always very fluid, especially in this case where the subject matter \u2014 a venue tax \u2014 is pretty dense, and there are organized campaigns looking to change minds and mobilize voters in the run-up the election,\u201d said\u00a0Bryan Gervais, UT San Antonio professor of political science and CPOR director. \u201cThat said, it\u2019s fair to say that the effort to secure venue tax funding for a new Spurs arena faces an uphill battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the poll showed favor for Project Marvel, with 45% of voters in support and 40% opposed. The project encompasses construction of a new San Antonio Spurs arena, a land bridge over Interstate 37 and expansions of Henry. B. Gonzalez Convention Center and the Alamodome.<\/p>\n<p>CPOR\u2019s poll was administered via computer-assisted, self-interviewing software in English and Spanish from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3 and has a margin of error of +\/- 3.8%.<\/p>\n<p>The election for those two propositions will take place Tuesday, Nov. 4, however early voting begins Oct. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u00ad\u2014 Bexar County voters are slightly in favor of raising the county&#8217;s venue tax to expand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,41034,13565,8988,136544,50,80,7202,155980,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-308204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-laura-baker","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115384214129873863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308204","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=308204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}