SAN ANTONIO — City Council's Thursday meeting is shaping up to feature a clash between two contingents of city leaders with different approaches to the current stage of Project Marvel discussions.

One group, led by Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, hopes to pause talks between city staff and the Spurs until San Antonio conducts its own economic impact study on a downtown arena expected to cost between $1.3 billion and $1.5 billion. The other, at this point bigger contingent hopes to give City Manager Erik Walsh the green light to continue negotiations with the NBA team on terms of the development.

Those two approaches are represented by dueling resolutions that have been placed on the agenda for Thursday's meeting—the outcome of which could prove pivotal for the timeline of the ongoing negoti

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