Flint Gives Privatized Arena Management a Sporting Chance

FLINT — The city of Flint may enter into a public-private partnership with businessman and doctor Khaled Shukairy to run its IMA Sports Arena. Under the arrangement the city would receive a $250,000 annual payment from Shukairy plus 25 percent of all new revenues exceeding $1.9 million. The partnership would last eight years.