Negotiating a Hornets nest: TWC Arena update costs whittled to $29.9 million 

CHARLOTTE – Assistant City Manager Ron Kimble was smiling as he told the City Council Monday night that negotiations with the Hornets basketball franchise had trimmed a request for $47.8 million in renovations to the city-owned Time Warner Cable Arena down to $29.9 million. And, he said, the city would pay only $27.5 million of ...