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Desert City May Mortgage City Hall to Pay for Hockey Team
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Desert City May Mortgage City Hall to Pay for Hockey Team

BY Jon Gabriel

When I say “Arizona,” what springs to mind? Cactus. Rattlesnakes. Dry heat. However, politicians in one Grand Canyon State suburb decided that hockey was the perfect fit for their desert bedroom community.The Phoenix Coyotes weren’t happy sharing a new downtown arena with the Suns. So the city of Glendale, Ariz., flush with tax revenue from the Sun Belt real estate bubble, built a hockey-only facility surrounded by miles of cotton fields.

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06/28/2013
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