Vikings stadium is a reality....updated.

[Xecuter]

Linky to any of these studies? I'm curious and would LOVE to spread the info.

the only studies that have ever shown stadium projects create jobs are the ones that look at an area not much larger than the vacant lot the stadium was put up on. studies that look at a region as a whole show that regional economic activity is depressed by the stadium.

 

[cliftonite]

Phokus won't be back. The fact that a Democrat was promoting this government transfer of wealth to the 1% and a Republican is quoted in the article as being against it doesn't jive with his ignorant opinion.

Could this deal have passed if all republicans in the house and the senate rejected the deal?

 

[roguerower]

Good news for me, should hear that we won the construction of it through the company intranet in the next month or so.

 

[Phokus]

Our Democrat governor has been pushing this. How does that make you feel?

About the same as i feel you bragging about leaching unemployment benefits

 

[ElFenix]

Linky to any of these studies? I'm curious and would LOVE to spread the info.

http://news.illinois.edu/news/04/1117stadiums.html

“The net economic impact of professional sports in Washington, D.C., and the 36 other cities that hosted professional sports teams over nearly 30 years, was a reduction in real per capita income over the entire metropolitan area,” Humphreys and Coates noted in the report.