Trevor Robb sur Twitter : Les Coyotes de l’Arizona utilisent le plan de l’aréna/district de divertissement de Calgary comme exemple de la façon de NE PAS financer un projet
Arizona Coyotes using the Calgary Arena/Entertainment District plan as an example of how NOT to fund a project. https://t.co/TnHTI11yXb
— Trevor Robb (@TrevorRobb_) May 2, 2023
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DuchessOfConcord
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Building an arena for a city with little fan base seems like how not to fund a project
Yeah because the Coyotes are being held over a barrel since they have nowhere to play
I’m going to steel the first tweet. If the their arena isn’t publicly funded, why does the public need to vote yes on 3 different ballots?
Vastly different situations.
One is a small market Canadian city with a rabid fanbase and no other top level professional sports teams. The team is engrained into the identity of the city.
The other is in the 10th largest metro market in the US, struggles to draw fans, has NFL, MLB and NBA teams in the market. 90% of people in the market sound like owls when asked about the team.
Arizona is a different project and I’m sure it surprises no one but taxpayers lay there too. That would be slightly more comparable to Calgary Next, as they’re building the project on an old landfill albeit in a much more populated city. What the deal in Tempe looks like is the Coyotes and land developer get a deal on the land and the clean up paid for by Tempe, a 30 year relief from property taxes and money back from sales tax spent at the whole site for the next 30 years. Calgarys is much more similar to Detroits deal if anything.
Arizona prefers to spend $844M in tax money building a fence through a desert.