{"id":478517,"date":"2026-10-27T20:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478517\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:54:35","slug":"dallas-stars-pour-nearly-1m-into-campaign-for-plano-arena-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478517\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars pour nearly $1M into campaign for Plano arena taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victory Green\u00a0Plano, the political action committee backed by the Dallas Stars\u2019 corporate entity, has raised over $1 million to fund the campaign for Plano\u2019s Proposition A<\/a>, which would approve up to five taxes to help fund a city-owned arena for the NHL team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The competing Stop the Stars Arena committee<\/a>, formed by residents, has raised around $13,000 from a few dozen Plano residents, according to the latest campaign finance records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of Victory Green Plano\u2019s contributions \u2014 over $980,000 \u2014 came from the Stars, records show. The PAC has sent texts, bought billboard ads, paid for online advertisements and sent mailers to Plano residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By moving to Plano, the NHL franchise hopes to meet season ticket-holders where they are<\/a> as D-FW\u2019s center of gravity moves north. Plano officials say the project could breathe life into the dormant Shops at Willow Bend mall where the arena is planned, backed by a $700 million contribution<\/a> from the city \u2014 funds that the venue taxes on November’s ballot could help cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The City Council would decide which of the taxes to levy<\/a>. They target parking, ticket prices, hotel rooms, car rentals and major league players who would use the arena.<\/p>\n

Stars CEO Brad Alberts said in an interview earlier this month the team \u201cneeds to be partners to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do our part and help get that election passed,\u201d he said. \u201cThat’s why we’re assisting in the funding of the PAC.\u201d<\/p>\n

HNTB, the firm the Stars selected to design the arena, contributed $15,000 to Victory Green Plano through a political committee, and Winstead PC, the law firm that represented the Stars in a legal dispute with the Dallas Mavericks, contributed $10,000, records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karen Dubrow, chair of the competing Stop the Stars Arena PAC, said residents are \u201cslammed\u201d with flyers and texts from Victory Green Plano, which has spent more than $800,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they’re willing to spend this kind of money, it means they’re getting a real big deal, and we’re getting rooked,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are fighting Goliath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her committee has spent about $5,800 on yard signs, flyers, a website, texts and an event.<\/p>\n

Sign up for our weekly Collin County newsletter here<\/a> and email tips on all things Plano, McKinney and more to lilly.kersh@dallasnews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victory Green\u00a0Plano, the political action committee backed by the Dallas Stars\u2019 corporate entity, has raised over $1 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,113319,89489,88338,88944],"class_list":["post-478517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-sports-stars","tag-tp-american-airlines-center","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478517","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=478517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}