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Meh, the team then has to lease the stadium and the stadium can be used -- DonHo-kieHi 08/04/2021 6:20PM Low income jobs don't pay-back (much) in taxes -- VT757to276 08/05/2021 10:53AM It's Buffalo...not a lot of boat shows in Oct - Feb -- VTNuke 08/04/2021 7:28PM Meh, the team then has to lease the stadium and the stadium can be used fo ** -- DonHo-kieHi 08/04/2021 6:20PM Bring them to DC ** -- darnellm 08/04/2021 2:59PM Northern VA. Let them compete with the WTF for fans. ** -- HokieNoVA 08/04/2021 6:09PM So his price went up? Local news was reporting this as 1 Billion on Monday -- Late 80s Hokie 08/04/2021 2:55PM The cost of lumber has sky-rocketed. ** -- Newt 08/04/2021 6:07PM Transitory inflation at play LOL ** -- MrBayAreaHokie 08/04/2021 3:46PM These owners are shameless. Socialized costs, private profits. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 08/04/2021 2:17PM I think you're forgetting all the seasonal, part-time, minimum wage jobs -- HokieNoVA 08/04/2021 2:26PM That provide no living wage or benefits ** -- 83Hokie 08/04/2021 4:36PM I detected a hint of irony in his comment ** -- `lag 08/04/2021 5:19PM Never mind, you were maybe finishing his sentence. ** -- `lag 08/04/2021 5:24PM Are "we" in Buffalo? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/04/2021 3:58PM "We" are not, it was more of a general comment. ** -- HokieNoVA 08/04/2021 3:59PM Check out all the stories about money blown on Olympic facilities that -- HokieDan95 08/04/2021 2:47PM They did at Lake Placid ... the olympic village was designed so that it -- 86TechHokie 08/04/2021 3:48PM Here's one video about the money blown -- HokieDan95 08/05/2021 08:14AM ATL facilities all had secondary uses already in place ** -- 133743Hokie 08/04/2021 6:05PM Lake Placid is now an Olympic training ground and -- YardBird 08/04/2021 4:46PM Who cares? It’s other people’s money. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 08/04/2021 2:51PM If you ever rented a car in Cleveland, you know where their stadium money -- Vtskier1 08/04/2021 3:41PM The bad part about these deals is the owner usually gets to build a stadium -- jdkhokie 08/04/2021 2:17PM "Tepper will be making such a move soon in Charlotte in 2024 -- PhotoHokieNC 08/04/2021 3:59PM Is having a pro sports team in your city going to end up like... -- MP4VT2004 08/04/2021 2:15PM Bayern Munich built a new stadium, completely self funded it, and paid it -- ElbertoHokie 08/04/2021 3:25PM Who said we're unable? ;-) ** -- vthokieq 08/04/2021 3:34PM That's been understood for a long time now, eg, Baltimore Raven's stadium -- `lag 08/04/2021 3:03PM The downtown arena that hosts events almost nightly, like MCI/CapitalOne -- jmanatVT 08/04/2021 4:06PM Yeah, and that's a lively area, also Shakespeare theater and a museum... -- `lag 08/04/2021 5:21PM The Braves scalped the taxpayers of Cobb County to the point we either -- RoswellGAHokie 08/04/2021 2:48PM One of proudest moments in Denver was when residents refused Olympics -- WestyHokie 08/04/2021 2:27PM Same w/DC Baltimore part of the plan is that we would become a special -- `lag 08/04/2021 3:08PM Only if the cities say "yes". ** -- HokieNoVA 08/04/2021 2:26PM Not if it's done correctly. I was just reading about the Cowboys and -- hoosnowahokie 08/04/2021 2:25PM Likely a no win situation for city decision makers... -- vthokieq 08/04/2021 2:19PM Make it a referendum, that way they can blame the voters. ** -- HokieNoVA 08/04/2021 2:46PM
