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Originally Posted by defishel
I don't know, this article here seems to suggest that sports stadiums aren't exactly good for cities/ contribute as positively as we assume. |
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The basic idea is that sports stadiums typically aren't a good tool for economic development," said Victor Matheson, an economist at Holy Cross
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This struck me as a bit of an obvious statement. But the article goes on to talk about these Peterborough-sized cities which peg their future and their meagre tax revenues hoping that a stadium and an NHL team will revive their entire town. This is far, far from being the case in Ottawa.
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