Ed Roski Jr.

I mean, it was, it was big enough to put another venue in there.

But, uh, when Phil Anschutz and Ed Roski bought the Kings and became the primary forces to build a new venue in, in Los Angeles, they chose, uh, the downtown site instead of, uh, actually the Forum property.

But, um, I have fond memories from Showtime, from, from the concerts that took place there.

I mean, that was, that was the place to go to.

Um, turns out that Dr. Buss had no interest in building an arena, and if you've read Bruce McNall's story, you know that he got into some financial, uh, trouble, spent some time in prison, and had to sell the Kings.

Um, the Kings were bought by Jeffrey Sutekov and Joe Cohen, and then the lockout happened.

They went bankrupt, and then Phil Anschutz and Ed Roski jumped in, and they bought the Kings.

And they were the driving force on building a new arena, and they went and hired, uh, Tim Leiweke, who became the president of the Los Angeles Kings.

And an extraordinarily respected man, $2 million to Abbott.

Then the last on the list for here, Edward Roski, California real estate titan, minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, but has massive real estate projects in Texas, including they own the Fort Worth Stockyards and all kinds of neat stuff.

Okay, business people, people that need the state to perform and all that.

Who are Gina Anahosa's top donors? The American Federation of Teachers is the top, led by that Randy Weingarten.

And so that was the first attempt around it.

If you don't mind, what was your feeling with all of that? Because I know Ed Roski was trying to do his project instead of industry, and then obviously we're competing with Englewood.

So you had three competing locations.

Yeah, I