The Cow Palace is Saved BUT NOT SAFE

On Friday 8/22/08, State Senator Yee got his bill passed by the Assembly
55-14 yesterday in Sacramento.   The Governor must now veto the bill in order for the Cow Palace to retain ownership of the 13 acre parking lot and complete it's long term lease.

The bill remains an unnecessary and costly exercise.  The 13 acres is already in the process of being long-term leased for a grocery store, etc. and a lease is clearly better than an outright sale of State land.

Proceeds from either a sale or a lease will go to revitalize the Cow Palace which has been the plan of the Cow Palace Board of Directors from the start. However, Yee never mentions this.  He continues to hammer away with his negative rhetoric about the Cow Palace as if his goal is still to tear it down. 

This bill must be vetoed by the Governor.  This will allow the Lease to continue, the grocery store and retail center to get built faster, and maximize income to the Cow Palace for it's revitalization process.

Once this is done, and the 13 acres is properly leased and a lovely new retail center is built, the Cow Palace can begin it's revitalization process and prove to Daly City and Senator Yee that the larger interests of the Bay Area and California are best served by a revitalized and dynamic new Cow Palace.

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The Cow Palace is: A truly historic Bay Area Icon! Used by over 540,000 people per year! Critical to many events! Important to local businesses! A safe place! A part of our community since 1941! To see Youtube clips of famous moments in Cow Palace History CLICK HERE

Cotton Rosser, King of the Cowboys says: "The Cow Palace is the Madison Square Garden Of the West"

Support the lease of 13 acres of Cow Palace property to Daly City for a shopping center.  Cow Palace management will long-term lease 13 acres of its unused land to help provide much needed retail space in the area.