Basketball Hall Plans Expansion

Heartened by vows of government support, trustees of the Basketball Hall of Fame backed off a threat to change sites and made plans to expand while promoting nearby development.

“The city and state came up to bat and said, ‘We’re willing to support this,”’ said Joe O’Brien, president of the shrine to the history of basketball.

He said 25 trustees voted unanimously to move forward with plans to double the hall’s size at its current site to 100,000 square feet by 1999. He said the expanded shrine would offer give more attention to high school and women’s basketball.