For those outside San Antonio, Project Marvel may not be on your radar. But here in San Antonio, it’s all over the place.

In a nutshell, Project Marvel boils down to Propositions A & B on the November ballot. It involves building a new arena downtown for the San Antonio Spurs.

So far, I personally have received handouts at the Spurs scrimmage as well as two 8 1/2 x 11 mailers supporting the measure. Those informational leaflets state that the Spurs will pay $500 million on an estimated $1.3 billion dollar arena. The rest of the money is scheduled to come through tourism, a 2% hotel occupancy tax.

One of the sheets states “We guarantee the Spurs stay in San Antonio for the next 30 years.”

This was specifically a point on contention at a recent town hall where San Antonio Spurs General C

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