Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
X2...I would guess it's doing what it was intended to do, and doing it well. Where a lot of my taxes go, not so much.
It really is the nicest stadium in North America.
How much do the taxpayers still owe on it?
Blank could stroke a check for MB Stadium and not feel an ouch of financial pain. No reason he should when us taxpayers can give him some welfare.
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I think he paid for almost all of it
I have not been there myself, but have spoken with 4-5 people who have. All have said the same thing...beautiful to look at, the video boards are awesome, but the acoustics suck....it's loud enough but you can't understand what's being said over the sound system.
Blank paid 80% of the cost of the stadium. The remaining 20% is paid through an Atlanta hotel tax. So it's really simple, if you don't want your tax money to foot the bill for the stadium, don't stay in a hotel in the city limits of Atlanta.
X2...I would guess it's doing what it was intended to do, and doing it well. Where a lot of my taxes go, not so much.
Atlanta paid 200 million in hotel taxes.
But, thanks to a clause buried deep in the stadium agreement, Blank would get to convert this initial subsidy into a gift that kept on giving. Any hotel-tax money collected after the first $200m would be put into a “waterfall fund” that the team could use for future “maintenance, operation and improvement” of the new stadium. Since those would normally be team costs, this meant Blank would get to stick taxpayers with the bills for future upgrades to his new playpen.
Again, if you aren't staying in an Atlanta hotel, you're not one of those taxpayers "getting stuck"...
And the vast majority of those folks are GA non residents anyway.........
In that case, raise the tax.. We need to get as much as possible from out of state moochers.. Including the hunters!
Again, if you aren't staying in an Atlanta hotel, you're not one of those taxpayers "getting stuck"...
I think he paid for almost all of it
Good deal then.