"This was a Sonics town and it's one of the best memories I've had as a young adult," Nelson said. "It's exciting to think that it could possibly come back."
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"How can you not be excited about this?" asked David Nelson, a basketball fan who has been going to Sonics games since high school. "It's NBA basketball. It might be coming back. I'm really stoked about it."
However, not everyone is excited. Critics still say that freight mobility may be compromised by event traffic.
"You really don't want to jeopardize the competitiveness of the marine cargo sector," Dave Gering of the Manufacturing Industrial Council said. "The rail support is essential to that."
"That's the only harbor that we've got," Gering added. "Those are the only marine cargo facilities that we've got. They can't be replaced, probably, so that's a lot at stake."
The first public meeting on the design prototypes is on Nov. 27.