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Friday roundup: Rays stadium displaces students to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Stars outspending arena opponents 77-to-1
No time for a quippy intro today, just vote early and vote often, and let’s get straight to the news: The Hillsborough College students who will have their classrooms displaced for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium were originally supposed to have classes in temporary trailers…
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Chicago architects draw Bears stadium at White Sox site, this is a “plan” now apparently
And so it came to pass that the Chicago architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill released some renderings yesterday of what a Bears stadium would look like on the current White Sox stadium site, and the internet did commence to lose its mind: Nobody, to be clear, is…
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DC United owner demands $300m for roof to keep women’s soccer team that doesn’t want one
The Washington, D.C. city council is getting set to take up councilmember Phil Mendelson’s bill to spend $300 million on adding a roof and additional seating to D.C. United‘s stadium, which is prompting talk of “stadium fatigue” from city councilmembers after recent big spends…
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Road to $650m Panthers stadium subsidy was paved by owner joining exclusive golf club
Two years after demanding and getting a then-record $650 million in public renovation money for his team’s stadium, Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper sat down to explain to Sports Business Journal how he pulled off the feat. After buying the team in 2018 and moving to North…
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Friday roundup: Sacramento, Raleigh, Quebec weigh stadium subsidies for teams that don’t exist yet
Apologies for the occasional outages that beset this site this week, some of which may have been related to the PHP security crisis but much of which likely was not. In any case, everything seems to be back to normal, and I’ve blocked a lot more of the bots that were slowing the…
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Blazers owner “went crazy,” canceled arena meetings, when told of Portland lease demands
The Portland Trail Blazers play their season opener tonight, two months after the Portland city council voted to require that team owner Tom Dundon cover most of the city’s proposed $120 million in arena renovation costs via rent and payments in lieu of property taxes. (Dundon…
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Pritzker says he hopes to complete Bears deal that could cost $1.5B in tax money but not at taxpayer expense, somehow
Election day is just two weeks away, and incumbent Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is reassuring (?) Illinois voters that he’ll be able to cut a deal to help pay for a new Chicago Bears stadium somewhere in their current state. After his Republican opponent, Darren Bailey, said in a…
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Monday roundup: Royals issue fresh vaportecture, LA sues Olympic committee for financial documents
Last day of my trip, regular programming resumes tomorrow. The Kansas City Royals have released new stadium renderings, and Kansas City Star sports columnist Vahe Gregorian says they “conjure something both beyond the imagination and entirely easy to envision” while Star…
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Final Chiefs STAR district retains 293 square miles that will divert $3.1B in taxes to NFL stadium
The final STAR district boundaries are in for where state sales tax revenues will be handed over to Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt to help pay for a new stadium, and they look pretty much like the initial boundaries: OLD: NEW: There are a few carveouts to exclude the…
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Plano approves taking $250m from schools to give to Dallas Stars owner for arena
The Plano, Texas school district has agreed to provide up to $250 million in property taxes over 25 years to the Dallas Stars for a new arena, but don’t worry, local school would be getting something for their money: The agreement would allow Plano ISD to host graduation…