Score one for Dad

For putting two and two together regarding the latest proposal for placating Tom Benson's desire for new digs. The Governor's plan to marry the stadium project to construction of the Phase IV convention center expansion could solve two problems at one time. In addition to helping alleviate concerns be they real or imagined about Mr. Benson's potential for wanderlust, this project could relieve the legal issues currently holding up work at convention center. Stupid me didn't give this a moment's thought until this morning when Dad spelled it out thusly

...(regarding)the mess that has been made of the bidding process and award by the combined and often at odds actions of the Convention Center Board and the courts. As it stands, the Board can give the job to Broadmoor and get sued by the other bidders or it can rebid the whole thing and get sued by Broadmoor again, all the while being assured of more extravagantly expensive delays with no end in sight. Turning the project into an entirely new undertaking involving both a stadium and a scaled down convention center expansion is like a silver bullet. It necessitates a new bidding round and nullifies any avenue for lawsuits.

This project now sounds to me like more than just a pipe dream, although I suspect it may still turn out to be a bargaining ploy. I owe Dad a coke.