AEG CEO Tim Leiweke says an anchor tenant will be bad for Sprint Center, but we’ll get one anyway
Sometimes it feels like everybody associated with the Sprint Center has had a logic and coherency lobotomy. AEG CEO Tim Leiweke is one of these people. When Sprint Center was being built, he guaranteed that it would snag an anchor tenant in the form of an NBA or NHL team. “I can assure you, there is going to be an anchor tenant,” he proclaimed to The Kansas City Star in 2004. Eight years later, it looks like he was blowing smoke up our collective civic ass.
The same week that the New York Islanders, long considered Kansas City’s best hope to bring the NHL downtown, decided to move to Brooklyn, Leiweke gave an exclusive interview to KSHB Channel 41’s Jack Harry. Hockey fans, basketball fans or those who believe that corporations working with cities should keep their promises will find the interview a real blood-boiler.
