Steelers VP Art Rooney II said he needs the help of
Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy with plans for a $600M riverside
complex west of Three Rivers Stadium. Rooney's hope is that
Murphy will intervene on the sale of the "key" vacant Kaufmann's
warehouse, a 798,000-square-foot building, owned by May Co.
department stores. The Rooney family wants to turn 25 acres west
of the stadium into a retail and entertainment complex, which
would include a 1.25M-square-foot mall, an NFL-theme sports
center, a riverfront amphitheater, movie theaters and
restaurants. Rooney said he was pursuing Niketown as a potential
tenant (PITTSBURGH BUSINESS TIMES, 10/28)....At least "three-
quarters" of the largest business owners in the area affected by
Detroit's proposed side-by-side stadiums, have agreed
"informally" to sell at "negotiated" prices. Specialists
estimate the total property acquisition costs "more than" $50M of
the total project costs of $505M (DETROIT NEWS, 10/30)....In
Seattle, King County's Seahawks/Kingdome Renovation Task Force
will meet Friday to consider adding city-owned Jefferson Park
reservoir as a possible site for the new Seahawks stadium
(SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10/30)....CoreStates Center has
designated a new smoking area at exit stair towers at the four
corners of the building that will go in effect Friday for the
Sixers home opener (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 10/30).
