The Warriors cleared an important hurdle Monday in their quest to build an arena when San Francisco's Superior Court ruled against a lawsuit brought by the Mission Bay Alliance challenging the environmental impact report process.
Judge Garrett Wong ruled that the city's EIR report was sufficient."We're very pleased by the court's ruling," Warriors president Rick Welts said in a statement. "We engaged in an extensive public planning process and we were approved by every board, agency and regulatory body we went before. Now our project has been upheld by the court. This decision brings us a huge step closer to building a new state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue, which will add needed vitality to the Mission Bay neighborhood and serve the entire Bay Area extremely well.