ONE BILL SIGNED FOR PATS, MORE BILLS NEEDED TO REACH GOAL

          MA leaders officially signed a $70M stadium bill for
     the Patriots yesterday, but Gregg Krupa of the BOSTON GLOBE
     reports that local business reps "have fallen short" of
     their goal of selling $15M in premium seating for a new
     stadium in Foxboro.  MA attorney Paul Kirk Jr.: "Frankly,
     I'm delighted with where we are.  We've won our fight with
     the skeptics and this is now reality.  We're just going to
     continue to go on until the job is done."  Kirk added that
     they have "commitments for about" $7.5M in premium seating. 
     Woolf Associates President Larry Moulter: "I think the
     lesson is that one needs to be careful saying publicly how
     high the bar is raised.  These are expensive properties, and
     the companies don't make their decisions that quickly." 
     More Moulter: "I think they will sell, across time."  Game
     Plan LLC Chair Bob Caporale, on the $7.5M raised: "I thought
     from the start that their goal was overly ambitious.  If
     they've achieved that number in that short a period of time,
     I think they've done well" (BOSTON GLOBE, 5/25).