This is an interesting new deployment. Apparently the Arizona Cardinals have bought the same land at the Loop 101 and Scottsdale Rd that Alex Meruelo was going to buy last year for a Coyotes Arena. The Cardinals plan to use the land build new a HQ and Training Facility to move out of Tempe.

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  3. Meruelo was never going to be able to pull off that purchase. By that point he had pissed off everyone and burned all the bridges. Not to mention, he would have been competing with deeper pockets than he had.

  4. Omg somebody think of the traffic this will cause, we must stop it!! /s
    Scottsdale is the worst, they are going to freak out over this too.

  5. Are the Cardinals actually paying for their own facility or do they have some sort of Ponzi scheme too?

  6. Ok so let me get this straight –

    Scottsdale mayor raised a huge fuss and acted all NIMBY over the coyotes being there because it would be a huge problem for Scottsdale to have “sports people” there (read: non-Scottsdale money)- State of Arizona revoked the auction at the last minute, (likely from Scottsdale mayor pressure) knowing Muerelo was ready to drop money on it — but no issue with Cardinals being there, now that Ernie Garcia bought the land.

    Ok.

    I get it.

    It was just about saying fuck you to the coyotes.

    That’s what I suspected.

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