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          The city of Boston's Fenway Park planning consultant,
     Barbara Burnham, has resigned from her $78,000 per year job
     due to "tensions that were cresting in the Fenway."  Cosmo
     Macero writes that Burnham's departure leaves Boston Mayor
     Thomas Menino "in a lurch, since he pledged earlier this
     year that the Fenway planner would guard neighborhood
     interests."  Sources say that Burnham "raised eyebrows" at
     the Boston Redevelopment Authority "by leaning visibly in
     favor of Fenway activists who oppose the new ballpark"
     (BOSTON HERALD, 8/12)....St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman will
     lead a 12-person group consisting of small-business owners
     and ballpark "skeptics" to Coors Field next week "to see how
     a big league ballpark has rejuvenated a once-slumbering
     warehouse district."  The two-day trip will be financed by
     the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce (Minneapolis STAR
     TRIBUNE, 8/12)....Vikings Owner Red McCombs met with
     Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton and then with MN Gov.
     Jesse Ventura yesterday to lobby for a new $400M football
     stadium (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/12).... The Bonham
     Group President Dean Bonham said that Gaylord
     Entertainment's 20-year, $80M naming rights deal with
     Nashville Arena doesn't "fit" because Gaylord "already has a
     well-known name in Nashville and the arena name does little
     to promote Opryland, its principal product."  But Gaylord
     COO Joe Crace said the company, which plans on advertising
     its many properties during hockey broadcasts, wants to
     "expand the Gaylord brand name" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/11).
     ... In Norfolk, Harry Minium wrote that the city "is in the
     early stages of considering" a new arena. But Norfolk Mayor
     Paul Frain said he "isn't ready to commit to building an
     arena" unless an NBA or NHL team decides to relocate to the
     area.  Frain: "Before you begin to build a facility, you
     should at least have reasonable expectation of obtaining an
     anchor tenant" (VIRGINIAN-PILOT, 8/11)....Raleigh Centennial
     Authority Construction Committee Chair Ray Rouse, on the
     seats at the new Raleigh arena being the wrong shade of red:
     "I just can't imagine Duke would build an arena and put
     Carolina blue in it.  It's just not logical to me that N.C.
     State would choose this color" (NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/11).     
      

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