Business & Tech

Pro Basketball on the Eastside? Bellevue Downtown Association Holds Forum

A group that aims to bring professional basketball and hockey to the Puget Sound area will hold a forum on Feb. 28.

Would Bellevue be ready to host professional basketball and hockey? Arena Solution, a group that supports bringing a sports arena to the Puget Sound area, will be featured at the next Bellevue Downtown Association forum on Feb. 28 to speak about how an area professional basketball and hockey team would affect Bellevue.

Talk is intensifying about the possibility of bringing an NBA team back to Seattle, in the Stadium District near Safeco and Century Link fields. Seattle has been basketball-free since the Seattle SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder.

The Bellevue Downtown Association forum speakers will address what an arena in Seattle might mean for Bellevue, and whether Bellevue could be a good place for an arena if the Seattle possibility doesn't come together.

Interested in local real estate?Subscribe to Patch's new newsletter to be the first to know about open houses, new listings and more.

The forum will feature Brian Robinson, president of ArenaSolution.org and Craig Kinzer, principal of Kinzer Real Estate Services and partner at Denny Hill Capital.

According to the Arena Solution's website, the group "supports regional efforts to bring a world class arena facility, premium concerts, and new professional sports teams to our region," and is organizing "a large and diverse coalition willing to publicly state their support of these efforts...."

Interested in local real estate?Subscribe to Patch's new newsletter to be the first to know about open houses, new listings and more.

The arena advocacy group includes former Seattle SuperSonic Shawn Kemp, Seattle Team Shop owner Jeff Scoma and local businessman John Besteman.

Seattle lost its NBA team, the Seattle SuperSonics in 2008, when new owner Clay Bennett moved the team to Oklahoma City, where it now is called the Thunder, according to HistoryLink.

If you go

Place: 

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 28

Time: 7:30 to 9 a.m.

Tickets:

$30 BDA Members/Students
$40 Non-Members
$300 BDA Member Table

Registration website is here.

For more information about the forum or about the Bellevue Downtown Association, go to http://www.bellevuedowntown.org.

RSVP by Thursday, Feb. 23


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here

More from Redmond