Arena's road to opening a bumpy one

Published Jan. 3, 2010 at 1:38 p.m.

It was never going to happen.

The idea that a large sports and entertainment arena should be built in downtown Wichita was kicked around for decades and usually ended up bloodied and beaten, more dead than alive.

But after two failed attempts, a heated sales tax campaign, countless surveys and public meetings, a lot of hustle by planners and a lot of complaints by opponents, a 15,000-seat arena has thrust its curvilinear glass profile into Wichita's skyline.

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