Allen wrote:
Baseball, football, and others can afford to build stadiums on their own. They choose not too because the public, or at least the politicians they elect, time after time cave in. It's like the bad parents who keep saying to their friends they're going to put their foot down the next time their teenager does XYZ but when push comes to shove they cave in and the kid continues to behave badly.
Pro sports and developers appear to argue the same thing. If you want to "prosper," you will devote tons of City of Mpls. resources to their developments/sports venues, though both have buckets of their own money to "develop" with. Cities used to throw in bringing in water/sewer, amassing the property, and making changes in the physical infrastructure around a development so it was woven into the city. Does the question then become 'How much is the city fairly to contribute to development of any sort?' I don't have the info. to suss out an answer, nor the skills.
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