{"id":31500,"date":"2012-09-25T07:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31500"},"modified":"2012-09-25T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:00:09","slug":"sf-hedge-fund-manager-to-build-490-million-sports-arena-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/sf-hedge-fund-manager-to-build-490-million-sports-arena-in-seattle.html","title":{"rendered":"SF Hedge Fund Manager To Build $490 Million Sports Arena In Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/seattle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31507\" title=\"seattle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/seattle-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/seattle-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/seattle.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; San Francisco hedge fund manager Chris Hansen\u00a0is planning a $490 million basketball and hockey arena,\u00a0pledging $290 million of his private money to the\u00a0Seattle\u00a0project, local papers report.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle City Council members voted\u00a06-2 on Monday,\u00a0approving the project after\u00a0a financial audit and some detail about the amount of equity his partners have in the hedge fund group.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen promised to secure a new NBA team and has plans to attract an NHL team, the Seattle Times said.\u00a0He introduced Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nordstrom executives Peter and Eric Nordstrom as partners in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen&#8217;s hedge fund, Valiant Capital Management\u00a0had nearly $3.3 billion in net assets under management at the end of 2011, the Seattle Times reported. Valiant has grown rapidly since its founding in 2008, but is still fairly small by hedge fund standards.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; San Francisco hedge fund manager Chris Hansen\u00a0is planning a $490 million basketball and hockey arena,\u00a0pledging $290 million of his private money to the\u00a0Seattle\u00a0project, local papers report. Seattle City Council members voted\u00a06-2 on Monday,\u00a0approving the project after\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31504,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31500\/revisions\/31504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}