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"There is great and exciting opportunity for a sports-and-entertainment district right in that core. There is demand in downtown Orlando for all these components, in addition to additional residential" – Magic CEO Alex Martins, on a proposed $100M mixed-use complex the team wants to develop in the city (ORLANDOSENTINEL.com, 4/22).

"We'd prefer to keep it in the Southeast because of the date. We control the date. If we don't figure out the 2017 golf-course strategy, then the whole thing doesn't work. That's the complexity" – Wells Fargo Charlotte Region President Kendall Alley, on the Wells Fargo Championship possibly moving for a year to make way for the '17 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow (BIZJOURNALS.com, 4/19).

"The Red Sox, the Patriots, the Bruins and the Celtics with different events are probably going to raise over a million dollars. It's been extraordinary how the whole town of Boston has come together in this disaster and tried to help the people who were so victimized" – Celtics Managing Partner Steve Pagliuca, on contributions to The One Fund Boston ("Squawk on the Street," CNBC, 4/22).

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