Verizon Arena in Manchester

[JaneDoe]

I am just curious, as both someone who hates taxpayer funded stadiums, and a big hockey fan, who paid for the Verizon Arena for the Manchester Monarchs hockey team? Was there any eminent domain issues with it? Etc.

I do know that the guy who owns the team is Phil Anschutz. He is head guy at Qwest, and owns about half the MLS (or more) and the Los Angeles Kings. I think that he funded the Staples Center in LA privately, but I cant be positive about that. He just built a new MLS stadium in Carson, and not sure about that, though I am fairly certain that Carson doesnt have the cash to be funding anything.

[GT]

http://www.newhampshire.com/verizon/index.cfm

"The Verizon Wireless Arena is the first event center of its kind to be built in New Hampshire, and is the largest construction project to ever be undertaken by the city of Manchester. (And just so you know, Verizon Wireless paid $11.4 million for the naming rights for 15 years."

Sounds like the city involved in building it.

[Karl]

Verizon Wireless Arena was built and is owned by the city.

[Russell Kanning]

I am pretty sure the city of LA built the Staples center....they took over huge amounts of crummy downtown areas and rebuilt it all in a new glorified vision of State planning