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While NBA fans were disappointed after Wednesday’s decision by the league to reject a plan to move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle, not everyone in the Emerald City was that upset.
Freight industry leaders have been fighting plans to build a basketball arena in Seattle’s Sodo area. And the local longshore union has legal action against the Sodo arena plan.
On Wednesday, after the NBA Board of Governors voted against the Seattle group, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) local 19 sent a letter asking “elected leaders to step back, take a deep breath” and consider Memorial Stadium and KeyArena as realistic options for an NBA arena.
More at the Puget Sound Business Journal
From a Kinder Morgan news release:
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. has announced it will invest $106 million to purchase approximately 20 acres adjacent to its Pasadena, Texas, terminal, build nine new tanks with a storage capacity of 1.2 million barrels at its Galena Park terminal under long-term customer agreements, and construct a new barge dock that is expected to help relieve current barge congestion in the Houston Ship Channel. The purchased acreage will be used to support a future crude condensate and refined products terminal capable of handling 10 150,000-barrel tanks with a connection to the Explorer Pipeline. The new barge dock, which will enhance existing infrastructure at the Pasadena terminal, will provide additional capacity to handle up to 50 barges per month.
Read the full news release here
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