Sports_Stadiums_In_Urban_Areas

Sports Stadiums In Urban Areas Many of our local political and community leaders and the owners of professional sports teams claim that professional sports stadiums and franchises are important parts of their cities economic growth in urban areas. These stadiums and teams supposedly give millions of dollars of new spending every year and make hundreds of new jobs, and this allegedly should justify for the hundreds of millions of dollars of public funding. Despite these claims there is no real evidence of helpful financial impact of professional sports teams and stadiums on our urban economies. This is really important for us to understand because some of our communities are suffering, and we are just voting without even thinking about the impact it has on our urban economy. We just think alright we’re getting a great looking stadium or even a brand new pro team and voting for it without even knowing the rewards we might get or might not get. Even though there are some rewards for having a team or new stadium, which is good for pride in a community, I think we are not getting the money we should out of these stadiums and franchises and put back into our stadiums, stadium, sports, new, economic, money, public, local, cities, teams, team, urban, professional, city, important, facilities, should, projects, dollars, support, community, both, benefits, large, game, franchises, economy, building, back, people, one, officials, millions, income, getting