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    Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce President Jim Kirkos said he is “alarmed” that the local business community has not gotten a chance to make its case to negotiators. "Regardless of the positive news about the Izod Center’s future, the proposed solution is clearly incomplete ... We still need to see the plan that replaces the dates the Meadowlands loses when the Nets leave." E-mail: brennannorthjersey.com The four-month negotiation initiated by Governor Corzine for a truce between Izod Center and Prudential Center received a lukewarm reaction Friday from three leading Democrats with a long history of interest in the issue. Full Article at NorthJersey.com
    Regardless of the positive news about the Izod Center’s future, the proposed solution is clearly incomplete ... We still need to see the plan that replaces the dates the Meadowlands loses when the Nets leave.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
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State Dems lukewarm to Izod-Prudential deal
  1. Any attempt by the Corzine administration to force the [New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority] to waive the penalty for breaking the team’s lease would be nothing more than a transparent subsidy for the Prudential Center and Newark
    – Gerald Cardinale SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  2. I’d love to see Newark thrive, and for us to be able to keep Izod open, but there’s a Russian guy involved ... And, of course, if Brooklyn’s not involved, he goes back to Russia.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  3. What everyone is forgetting is that the Nets, themselves, determine their fate ... We’ll find out in a month or so if they’re going to get an arena in Brooklyn. If not, they might go anywhere — St. Louis, Kansas City, Seattle? And the deal doesn’t work for the Devils unless they have the Nets [longterm]...
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  4. Regardless of the positive news about the Izod Center’s future, the proposed solution is clearly incomplete ... We still need to see the plan that replaces the dates the Meadowlands loses when the Nets leave.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  5. But I still don’t want to see the state putting any money into Izod ... This doesn’t take away how old Izod Center is.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  6. These guys have all the leverage in the world right now
    Richard Codey – Richard Codey SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago
  7. My No. 1 concern is a commitment to keeping Izod open because of its impact on the regional economy, and this deal looks like it would do that
    – Paul Sarlo SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 1 month ago

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