Deal to Turn San Antonio Landfill into Sports Arena Moves Forward

Date: September 14, 2006

Source: News Room

Gordon Hartman's charitable plans to turn a former landfill in San Antonio, Texas into a $10 million sports complex that could include twenty new soccer fields is one step closer to realization. Hartman's family foundation would pay about $1 million to purchase the property and then raise the remaining $9 million to build the complex. Still many legal and financial hurdles exist. But one has recently been cleared. Proceeds from the sale were contested as to percentage division, as contracted, between the current owner, Crestmore, and the previous owners, the local municipalities that had operated the landfill from 1969 to 1981. Now the mayors of the towns agreed to limit their compensation to 25% of the $1 million, allowing the rest to go to the current owner, more than what was stipulated in the original contract but less than Hartman and Crestmore had hoped. The mayors cited a great need for soccer fields in San Antonio and as having received many phone calls in support of the plan to build new soccer fields.

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