As someone who gets involved in stadium builds, I would recommend this site. Field of Schemes. https://www.fieldofschemes.com It shows the sordid side of stadium financing billionaire welfare plans.
The New York Giants and New York Jets haven't had a regular home field in New York City since the prior millennium. Same goes for the Washington War Pigs, er, Commanders, who haven't played their home games in D.C. since the 1990s. The New England Patriots don't play in Boston.
Teams in the NFL and in other major sports leagues have been escaping the city propers for a long time. They still use the names of the metropolitan areas or entire states (or in the case of new England, entire regions) for marketing purposes. Not all teams call the suburbs home, but enough do that it's not a shock to find out a team is considering getting out of the high-density urban areas.
Better then an asswipe Republican that votes for the most corrupt prick to hold the White House. Wait your response is always “What would Jesus do? “ Hold on this pile of shit is your Savior.
Nonsense. In fact, it's the opposite for many locales. Manhattan has areas that are both high-density and extremely wealthy, for example, and it's not alone in that regard.
Urban areas tend to be more expensive and offer less opportunity to enlarge facilities if everything around the facility is developed.
Of course, I’m aware of that disparity. Perhaps I generalized, I didn’t find it necessary to spell it out. Although what I mentioned holds true. Still, large cities (even in the wealthy areas) will fail or are failing. Regressive liberal democrats kill everything they touch. Wait till you see NYC turn into a slum with an avowed socialist communist at the helm.
The irony is that many major sports teams move locations because they're seeking *more* socialism/communism in the form of publicly funded stadiums and other infrastructure benefits. Like other crony corporations, major sports leagues and teams like socializing risk and costs, and privatizing profits.
I believe that Illinois' failure to offer anything backs the Bears into a corner. The last press release from the Bears stated they are still considering options and will make a final decision later. Why the delay?
Did the Illinois Legislature essentially called the Bears' bluff? Will the Bears still choose Arlington Heights despite no public funding concessions?
The Chicago Park District borrowed almost $400M to help renovate Soldier Field about 25 years ago. The repayment on the bonds was backloaded, so now the taxpayers still owe nearly $600M on the $400M principal. And now they have lost their tenant. Of course the new plan floated out there is to borrow even more money to renovate it again
Johnson is an unqualified idiot. Downstaters as myself are not spending any tax dollars on bullshit to benefit a city we have a love hate relationship with at the least. The founding fathers of the country summed it up when they said the electorate aren’t reliable as voters. Open your eyes to the truth and it resonates loud and clear in America today.
The only thing the mayor or governor can do to keep the Bears is to give them a large enough subsidy. Rather than doing that, I'd rather that the two of them effectively give every business a subsidy by reversing nearly everything they've done.
As someone who gets involved in stadium builds, I would recommend this site. Field of Schemes. https://www.fieldofschemes.com It shows the sordid side of stadium financing billionaire welfare plans.
The New York Giants and New York Jets haven't had a regular home field in New York City since the prior millennium. Same goes for the Washington War Pigs, er, Commanders, who haven't played their home games in D.C. since the 1990s. The New England Patriots don't play in Boston.
Teams in the NFL and in other major sports leagues have been escaping the city propers for a long time. They still use the names of the metropolitan areas or entire states (or in the case of new England, entire regions) for marketing purposes. Not all teams call the suburbs home, but enough do that it's not a shock to find out a team is considering getting out of the high-density urban areas.
High density urban areas = inner city = slums. Which brings us back to cities being run by regressive liberal democrats.
Better then an asswipe Republican that votes for the most corrupt prick to hold the White House. Wait your response is always “What would Jesus do? “ Hold on this pile of shit is your Savior.
> High density urban areas = inner city = slums
Nonsense. In fact, it's the opposite for many locales. Manhattan has areas that are both high-density and extremely wealthy, for example, and it's not alone in that regard.
Urban areas tend to be more expensive and offer less opportunity to enlarge facilities if everything around the facility is developed.
Of course, I’m aware of that disparity. Perhaps I generalized, I didn’t find it necessary to spell it out. Although what I mentioned holds true. Still, large cities (even in the wealthy areas) will fail or are failing. Regressive liberal democrats kill everything they touch. Wait till you see NYC turn into a slum with an avowed socialist communist at the helm.
The irony is that many major sports teams move locations because they're seeking *more* socialism/communism in the form of publicly funded stadiums and other infrastructure benefits. Like other crony corporations, major sports leagues and teams like socializing risk and costs, and privatizing profits.
Honey you couldn’t identify a Communist Socialist because you voted for a Fascist.
I believe that Illinois' failure to offer anything backs the Bears into a corner. The last press release from the Bears stated they are still considering options and will make a final decision later. Why the delay?
Did the Illinois Legislature essentially called the Bears' bluff? Will the Bears still choose Arlington Heights despite no public funding concessions?
The Chicago Park District borrowed almost $400M to help renovate Soldier Field about 25 years ago. The repayment on the bonds was backloaded, so now the taxpayers still owe nearly $600M on the $400M principal. And now they have lost their tenant. Of course the new plan floated out there is to borrow even more money to renovate it again
I will miss “The Chicago Bears” but understand it’s a business.
SF 49ers play in "their" stadium in Santa Clara, CA., and that city's population of 134K eats the costs, cronyism and corruption.
Pritzker criticizing the mayor is like..pot…meet kettle. I didn’t call the kettle black so I wouldn’t be called a raaaacist.
Johnson is an unqualified idiot. Downstaters as myself are not spending any tax dollars on bullshit to benefit a city we have a love hate relationship with at the least. The founding fathers of the country summed it up when they said the electorate aren’t reliable as voters. Open your eyes to the truth and it resonates loud and clear in America today.
The only thing the mayor or governor can do to keep the Bears is to give them a large enough subsidy. Rather than doing that, I'd rather that the two of them effectively give every business a subsidy by reversing nearly everything they've done.