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MAVS AND STARS FACE OFF IN BATTLE TO LEAD NEW ARENA PROJECT

          The debate over a proposed downtown arena in Dallas
     escalated as the Mavs "demanded" that the city choose one
     team to build and run the project -- "preferably them,"
     according to Todd Gillman of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS.  Team
     negotiator Tom Luce said the city must also choose whether
     it wants a $1B megaproject "that could turn downtown around"
     or, as the Stars "prefer," a more modest deal that includes
     only a new arena.  Luce, an attorney for both the Mavs and
     Majority Owner Ross Perot Jr.'s company, Hillwood
     Development Corp: "Somebody has to be in charge.  Somebody
     has to be accountable. ... We think it ought to be us." 
     Stars President Jim Lites called the Mavs desire that
     Hillwood take over the project "pretty scary," and said the
     Mavs are putting City Manager John Ware in an "impossible
     spot" and that both teams should have "equal say in the
     deal."  Lites: "The city can't pick, because they won't have
     our support.  Half the risk is going to be ours. ... We want
     to control our destiny to that extent."  Stars Owner Tom
     Hicks called Perot's vision of a $1B project, that includes
     offices, shopping and homes a "pie-in-the-sky idea" that has
     delayed" any new arena deal (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 1/21).

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