District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito pushed back at Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ proposal that the Spurs enter a revenue-sharing agreement with the city as part of a new arena deal, calling such a move “dangerous.”
In comments to the Current, Alderete Gavito said asking the NBA team to commit to such a deal could prompt it to leave the city and might even prompt other businesses, potentially even grocer H-E-B, to vacate. No other city demands a revenue deal from its NBA team, she added.
“That makes it easy for [the Spurs] to say ‘OK, so part of my profit has to go to the city budget in San Antonio, but not Austin? I’ll go to Austin,” Alderete Gavito said…