Sacramento proposes Atlantic Yards West for Kings
The NBA and city of Sacramento officially issued their plans for a new Sacramento Kings arena on the site of Cal Expo yesterday, and you sure can’t accuse them of thinking small: It includes a 350-acre...
View ArticleManhattan Jets/Olympic stadium plan: the cost that keeps on costing
The New York Jets Manhattan stadium plan may be long dead, but its legacy lives on in the form of “Hudson Yards,” the mixed-use development project that was supposed to surround it on Manhattan’s West...
View ArticleWhen TIFs go bad: the Reno Aces story
The Reno Aces, the Arizona Diamondbacks‘ Triple-A affiliate, are getting about a million dollars a year from the city of Reno to pay off their stadium construction debt, and it turns out every single...
View ArticleVirginia Beach approves “private” arena plan that would use $7m/year in...
The Virginia Beach city council voted last night on which of two arena plans to pursue, and according to the Virginian-Pilot, it “chose United States Management’s privately financed proposal” over a...
View ArticleChicago is still building that $125m arena for DePaul, in case you were...
Heather McCoy of KUCI, whose show I’ll be making my weekly appearance on at 8 am Pacific today, asked me yesterday what was up with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s much-ridiculed plan to build a $125...
View ArticleWisconsin governor’s arena plan depends on future NBA players averaging...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his Milwaukee Bucks arena funding proposal yesterday, and oh man, was there ever a last-second plot twist. Walker is not, as rumored previously, proposing to raise...
View ArticleWalker promises new Bucks arena plan in “next few days” that magically won’t...
Oh, yeah, it’s definitely racino time in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker has announced that “in the next few days” he’s going to announce a new Milwaukee Bucks arena plan to replace his old arena...
View ArticleMiami to declare Marlins’ stadium “blighted” so it can spend tax money on...
The public subsidy details are starting to emerge for David Beckham’s proposed MLS stadium next to the Miami Marlins‘ baseball stadium: On top of about $35 million in property tax breaks, it now looks...
View ArticleNo, I don’t think the $38m PawSox stadium subsidy plan is a “win-win,” here’s...
Joe Nocera, late of the New York Times op-ed page, has a new Bloomberg View opinion piece up titled “You Can Pay for a Ballpark Without Fleecing Taxpayers,” which namechecks this site and even provides...
View ArticleFC Cincy mulling Kentucky tax kickbacks to pay its entire stadium cost, and...
All the news that wasn’t fit to print this week: FC Cincinnati now wants the Port Authority of Greater Cincinnati to own its stadium since Hamilton County doesn’t want to. (Does “own” mean “pay for”?...
View ArticleFriday roundup: The Case of the Dead Beer-Tap Inventor, and Other Stories
This was the week that was: The Denver Broncos are finding it slow going getting a new naming rights sponsor for their stadium because a used stadium name loses lots of its value, thanks to everyone...
View ArticleChicago USL stadium, music venues axed from Lincoln Yards plan by local alderman
Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts will not be bringing a new USL soccer team to that city, after alderman Brian Hopkins issued an open email declaring his opposition to the planned Lincoln Yards...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Long Island residents yell at cloud over Isles arena, Calgary...
It’s Friday (again, already) and you know what that means: New York State’s Empire State Development agency held a series of three public hearings on the plan to build an Islanders arena on public land...
View Article76ers owner vows no “direct” use of tax money for new waterfront arena while...
I admit, it’s sometimes tough even for me to keep track of which stadiums and arenas are considered “new” or “old” — or “state-of-the-art” and “outmoded,” as sports team owners like to say. The...
View ArticlePawtucket developer slashes size of soccer stadium project, still wants same...
The Covid economy has developers all over rethinking construction plans, especially office projects, since it seems pretty likely not nearly as many people will be going in to the office in our future....
View ArticleFriday roundup: MLB billionaire owners cry poor, Rangers stadium reviews get...
What a week! I know I say that every week, but: What. A. Week. In addition to the World Series insanity, I spent some time this week writing an article about other ways that giant monopolistic cartels...
View ArticleA’s owners plan “privately financed” stadium that would cost Oakland $855m
If you’ve been following the agonizingly slow drip of news about the Oakland A’s plans for a new stadium at Howard Terminal on Oakland’s downtown waterfront, you may recall me wondering aloud how much...
View ArticleIllinois school district: Are the Bears going to build new schools for...
One of the big hidden costs of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink stadium projects with big multiuse developments attached is that proponents generally count all the new benefits of development — lookit...
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