Before a shovel goes into the ground, a $1.8 billion downtown “convadium” faces a labyrinthine slog through the legal, political. economic and environmental realms.
Leading up to the November election, expect to see competing interest groups in a pitched, but fairly predictable, battle over public opinion.
Chances are at least even the convadium campaign collapses of its own convoluted weight.
Or it takes wing and the Bolts play downtown happily ever after amid throngs of convention visitors.
That either-or we sort of know.
What we don’t know, local geologists say, is exactly what we’d find after the ground is broken.