stadiums employ a massive work force, tho clearly they dont get paid as much as amazon execs. the point is these MASSIVELY MASSIVELY wealthy companies should not be playing cities against each other for benefits they do not need, especially when so many are facing underfunded schools and affordable housing crisis. its absolutely obscene.
bezos himself could write the fucking 5 billion dollar check and not notice its gone.
I think it depends. Like Little Ceasars Arena that was opened this year in Detroit will house the Pistons and Red Wings but also a ton of other events. They also host private events as another stream for revenue. I want to say they are looking at putting other venues within the complex. But for single event places (for the most part) like a baseball stadium, yeah, not year round good work I'd imagine.
Parts of Harlem have long fallen to gentrification, but last time I was there (2013 I think?) it was very much a one side of the street luxury apartment/other side low-income housing. Baltimore is the same except entire streets or neighborhoods are looking good, then you round a corner and walk into slums and get murdered.
It blows my mind that the entirety of Manhattan wasn't completely gentrified 15 years ago.
On topic, plans were just released to put a 49 story skyscraper a block from my little house in Echo Park, Los Angeles. There isn't anything more than 10 stories in the whole neighborhood lol.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...111-story.html
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even with the other events keeping the place open, the public never gets their money out of a stadium because the same real estate put to more mundane commercial space generates the same/better jobs with less investment. it would be one thing if the public ever got a portion of ticket costs, but they don't. the only thing the public gets out of stadiums they can't get out of mundane commercial space is tourism, and that's going to be concentrated around the 2-3 days surrounding big ticket events- national sports league games- and then be bone dry 90% of the time.
convincing the public that stadiums were a good investment is one of the greatest bamboozles of the last 60 years.
I definitely agree overall it's a sham to have the public fund it. I'm probably looking at this too much through homer eyes regarding LCA because it's a huge boost for Detroit in regards to jobs. Detroit has slowly and quietly been becoming the place to be for your entertainment spot and I just really want to see it thrive.
Fortunately my one block away house is up a steep hill, so I'll be eye level with like the 10th floor, not ground level. It's being built where there's currently an abandoned church and that corner is a magnet for the homeless, so I'm all for it getting cleaned up.
Going to be quite the change though. When I bought in 2011, the existing 10 story building on that lot was a graffiti covered abandoned building - now it's luxury lofts. Imagining a building 5 times the height of that one though...wooo
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Southwest Airlines randomly sent me 4 alcoholic drink coupons good until Jan 2019. They really know me..
My sister-in-law had her 4-month ultrasound today. Twins, a boy and a girl.
Got tickets to distant worlds. One winged angel here we come!!
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