By Laurie Roberts | The Arizona Republic
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It took just 22 minutes for the Glendale City Council to agree to shell out $180 million to build an arena for the then-Phoenix Coyotes. City leaders had spent the previous weekend urging then-Coyotes owner Steve Ellman to dump Scottsdale — where skeptical city officials weren’t buying his pitch — and come west.
“It truly is a historical event,” a beaming Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs said that April evening in 2001.
Turns out Scruggs was right. It was historical all right.
