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Originally Posted by realcity
And if the Board sells their head office to Mac we will not get any new taxes because neither pay taxes. O that already happened. Where is the good part again? The part that we're spending $10mil to get nothing in return. Or lose about as much as we gain, called zero sum gain. Nice investment.
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The gain comes from the hundreds of new jobs created downtown, and the thousands of people the new facility will bring downtown every year, all spending money, all bringing new revenue to the city. This forum is filled with nothing but pessimism, anyone with an objective eye would see the new health campus as a positive for the core.