In a win for Mayor Jones, San Antonio this week said it secured a $2.56 million contractual obligation from the Spurs related to a deal from a decade ago. <\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones notched a win this week after Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SSE) paid heed to her ask for a roughly $2.56 million repayment as part of a failed bid to land a Major League Soccer team in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That obligation comes from a 2015 Toyota Field deal, which required the payment if SSE was unable to land an MLS team in San Antonio by 2021. The city and Bexar County each contributed $9 million to buy\u00a0<\/a>Toyota Field in 2015 (at that point the home of the San Antonio Scorpions) with the hopes of bringing MLS to the Alamo City.\u00a0<\/p>\n That didn’t happen. A decade later, Jones \u2013 who has continued to say she wants to land the best deal possible<\/a> for the city as it pertains to helping the Spurs’ downtown move<\/a> \u2013 had been\u00a0publicly pushing for repayment<\/a> of the $2.56 million provision, per the stipulations outlined in a previous contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I recognize, for whatever reason, that hasn\u2019t necessarily been sought after by the city staff,” Jones said in her first State of the City address earlier this year. “But we\u2019re in a budget crunch here. I think it\u2019s really important that we go after the money that we\u2019re owed.”<\/p>\n The city on Wednesday confirmed it has received that $2.56 million from the Spurs. Officials already know how the money will be used, too: It will cover funding for improvements to Toyota Field, including scoreboards, LED field boards, stadium lighting, updated seating and elevators improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re glad this issue is resolved and the commitment has been met,” City Manager Erik Walsh said in a statement. “This agreement puts the money where it belongs\u2014into improvements at Toyota Field.\u201d<\/p>\n San Antonio FC, which now plays at Toyota Field on the northeast side, is part of the USL Championship league\u2014a lower-tier organization than MLS. The team is operated by SSE.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a win for Mayor Jones, San Antonio this week said it secured a $2.56 million contractual obligation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-392776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}