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I just love the usual suspect, the anti-sports crowds that put forth the same arguments everytime a community is looking to build sports complexes, stadiums, or arenas. And all of the complaints about them simply do not hold water.

Everywhere it has been done, with modern stadiums, it has been a huge success. It has revitalized neighborhoods, increased tax bases, increased foot traffic, caused the opening of numerous other related businesses nearby, and so on.

It has saved the downtowns in Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, and even in DC with the Verizon Center and National's ballpark completely changing previously dead areas of town.

If you build it like Landover or Meadowlands or the Pontiac Silverdome, all you get is acres of parking lots. but if you build it within the city and smartly, it transforms things. Go and visit places that have done this and you will see it first hand.

by Ray B on Nov 4, 2011 2:59 pm • link • report

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