Tempe today will officially offer a site of its own to theTourism and Sport Authority, which will decide in the next fewmonths where to build the domed stadium.

Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano plans to withdraw another site thecity had posited and instead offer a 64-acre parcel in Papago ParkCenter, a 350-acre business park. The parcel is southeast ofWashington Street and Priest Drive and just northwest of the TempeTown Lake, a two-mile long lake that runs adjacent to downtownTempe. Tempe is a suburb next to Phoenix and home to Arizona StateUniversity.

"We have the responsibility, now that voters have said yes toProposition 302, to provide as many viable alternatives to thesports and tourism board to consider as possible," Giuliaanosays.

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