By Becky Pallack | Arizona Daily Star
Republican candidates for Tucson City Council held a news conference Friday to discuss a delayed downtown development, but it quickly turned confrontational when the developers and their supporters showed up.
The three candidates, Margaret Burkholder, Bill Hunt and Kelly Lawton, held the publicity event on Gadsden Co.’s private property on West Congress Street.
Gadsden bought the property from the city and has exclusive rights to develop it if it meets certain performance criteria, which the Republican candidates say the company has failed to meet after multiple time extensions.