{"id":523505,"date":"2026-01-07T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523505\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:43:11","slug":"trail-blazers-will-ask-for-nba-related-tax-revenue-to-fund-arena-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523505\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers Will Ask for NBA-Related Tax Revenue to Fund Arena Renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In a statement, president Dewayne Hankins described the Blazers as \u201ca central part of Oregon\u2019s economy and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBut,\u201d he wrote, \u201cModa Center is bigger than basketball \u2014 it\u2019s Oregon\u2019s busiest entertainment venue and one of the state\u2019s most important gathering places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSince early 2023, we\u2019ve been in meaningful conversations with the City and our public partners about a long-term, market-rate lease extension for the Blazers that includes an investment to extend the useful life of Moda Center. The 2026 legislative session is an opportunity to move from conversation to action, and I\u2019m encouraged to be working alongside leaders who see this as an investment in our economic prosperity and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, president Dewayne Hankins described the Blazers as \u201ca central part of Oregon\u2019s economy and identity.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-523505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115856238520247548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}