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Originally Posted by austex
migol24...Please elaborate on this. Do you mean drawing a pro sports team to Austin or drawing tourists and international attention to Austin?
Austin/Travis County has had quite a history in rejecting public funding for pro/semipro stadiums/arenas. It seems that without the public funding a team will not locate nor stay in a city. Thankfully up in Williamson County those folk will pay. I am glad Travis County has rejected these handouts.
As far as drawing international attention to Austin, Formula 1 will do that for at least a few years. Long enough that foreign interests will have Austin on their radar. Not that this is a good nor a bad thing...but it will happen.
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Not sure what exactly you want me to elaborate on. It was simply a response to JGFrisco that not only thinks a pro-sports team will ever work, but also F1 will not work. What do I need to elaborate on?
But as for your comments, the thing about a pro-sports team, I don't understand how people don't think that the economy and population will make Austin's market grow in maybe a decade that it could be quite plausible to bring a pro team. Everybody keeps talking about how the Longhorns are already in Austin or the Spurs are already in San Antonio. I dunno, maybe I'm missing something cause when the population in Austin starts getting to nearly 2.5 million and the economy continues to grow, assuming everything works in its favor, I don't see how the trends will continue to stay the same that a pro-sports team will not be possible for Austin. People talk about it as if its a 0% chance Austin could get a pro-sports team.
And to think that there are other smaller cities, or similar sized cities, that have a pro-sports team even being so close to other big markets. Sacramento comes to mind. It's only about an hour and a half away from the Bay, a measly 30 mile difference from Austin to SA, and it has a basketball team when the Bay has already 2 football teams, 1 hockey team, 1 basketball team and 2 baseball teams. And Sacramento, mind you, is roughly the size of Austin or San Antonio in metro population.
Why can't 2 pro-sports teams work out in a region of nearly 4.5 million if you combined the entire Central Texas region from Austin to San Antonio?
I don't know.. but something is beyond me when people say Austin has no chance of ever getting a sports team. They factor in the Cowboys. I mean... really? A 3.5 hour drive from Austin and the Cowboys make that much of an influence on Austin's market not ever having a chance to even get a major league baseball team in maybe a decade from now when one of the top 3 fastest growing cities and markets will have already grown substantially by that time? How does that work? I would understand if it were another football team, but a baseball team?
What were people saying when San Antonio was trying to bring the Saints to their home? Just wondering...
Now about F1 Tracks... maybe it will work... maybe it won't but from what I gather is that people make assumptions from one extreme to another. They say that it will flat out be a disaster, while others say its gonna put Austin on the map for good and whatnot. I dunno. I'm not an expert on it like others try to be. We'll see how it works out.
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I've heard people in SF can get down right weird at times as wel. Several months ago I saw this guy half naked, singing more like screaming something about crack.
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