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An ordinance acknowledging and recognizing the benefits of the proposed Tiger Athletic Foundation Project to build an LSU Arena, and thereby restricting certain uses by City-Parish owned buildings, including the Raising Cane’s River Center, and authorizing the Mayor-President to identify one or more strategies for developing additional convention capacity and soliciting a developer to develop a convention hotel.

There was an Advocate article the other day discussing a study of the potential of renovating/replacing the PMAC. They are wanting to attract concerts and performers, but are trying to figure out how to prevent an upgraded PMAC from competing with the River Center since BR isn't large enough to support both.

From the article:

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Meyer said the study will cost a few hundred thousand dollars. The goal is to coordinate issues such as the feasibility of making major upgrades to the River Center, how that would fit in with LSU’s plans to renovate or replace the PMAC, and the proposed redevelopment of Memorial Stadium. Attracting more quality hotels downtown is also in the mix, along with transit improvements.

“There could be over $1 billion in potential investment if it comes together in the right way,” he said. “The overarching point is to be collaborative and complementary.”

Baton Rouge isn’t a big enough market to support two major arenas, Meyer said, and having a renovated River Center and a new PMAC competing with each other for concerts and events would not benefit the city.

Public-private partnerships will be needed to make any sorts of major improvements. “We’re not taxing our way to pay for new entertainment venues,” he said.

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thereby restricting certain uses by City-Parish owned buildings, including the Raising Cane’s River Center

Another potential interpretation of this is that they are trying to restrict certain performances from happening at the River Center so that they happen at the future PMAC instead.