Although the Seattle arena plan was unofficially approved a week and a half ago, it was not voted on by the city council until today. The vote passed by a margin of 6 to 2, per Chris Daniels of KING TV. Now Seattle is almost to the point where Sacramento was back in March when our city council approved an arena plan. There are still many more steps in the process, the most important being finding an anchor tenant.

Interestingly enough, it might not be basketball that Chris Hansen and Seattle go after, at least not immediately.

A Hockey team would serve the purpose of being an anchor tenant until Hansen is able to find a basketball team that he can relocate. The Oilers have been threatening relocation for a while now, even going so far as to retweet articles about relocation on their official Twitter account.

Update (5:00 PM):

This in from Fox40's Jim Crandell: