Last Friday Whit Watson reported promising news for Orlando Magic fans:

““History will look back on this day in the same light as the day that Walt Disney announced he was building his theme park in Orlando.”

So said Alex Martins, the COO of the Orlando Magic, after Thursday night’s gut-wrenching 5-2 affirmative vote by the Orange County Commission. The plan, as we all know by now, is to tap into the county’s Tourism Development Tax, or TDT, to help fund a new downtown arena, a performing arts center, and a refurbishment of the aging Citrus Bowl. Total value of all three projects will escalate well north of $1 billion dollars, with a sizable chunk of that money coming from the hundreds of thousands of tourists who pass through central Florida each year.”

The move should help improve the Orlando downtown area considerably while increasing attendance and season ticket sales, which the Magic desperately need after handing their god awful Rashard Lewis signing.

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