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Will Seattle Give Up Two Blocks In Sodo For Arena Plan?

A naming rights agreement with Safeco Insurance and the Seattle Mariner's baseball field ends after the 2018 season.
Flickr Photo/Matthew Simantov (CC BY NC 2.0)/https://flic.kr/p/e7xWtf
The new proposed arena would sit south of Safeco Field, on Occidental Avenue between Holgate and Massachusetts Streets.

Bill Radke talks with Seattle Times reporter Geoff Baker about recent developments in Chris Hansen's arena proposal in the Sodo neighborhood. Hansen is asking the city to give up two blocks of Occidental Avenue South in order to move forward with his arena plan.

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