OT Seattle?

[dviss1]

Not sure if this hypothetical is even more unlikely than BGD's from the other day.

Never.

Gonna.

Happen.

It could. CJ's would never.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

It could. CJ's would never.

There will always be cities willing to drop bank on a job/entertainment creator like a pro-sports team.

 

[dviss1]

There will always be cities willing to drop bank on a job/entertainment creator like a pro-sports team.

So no one wants to answer the hypothetical..

 

[Sedatedfork]

What if sports didn't exist.

 

[Chris Craig]

What if sports didn't exist.

Then life would'nt be worth living

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

What if sports didn't exist.

There would be even more strip clubs as our entertainment.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Yeah for real they can afford it since they end up making bank when they sell the team later too. Public financing of arenas is a scam any way you look at it.

Amen.

I mean, if the public funded it, then how come they cant use it for free and have ot pay to enter if they funded the construction.

This is almost as bad a scam as insurance companies....

 

[dviss1]

What if sports didn't exist.

Muthafuckas might actually vote.

 

[Ed O]

Bottom line:

We don't pay for Nordstrom's new consultation stores do we? You know, the stores that literally have no clothes?

It's their "brick and mortar" business and they pay for their own buildings.

What is different about stadiums? Nothing IMO. They are certainly brick, and certainly mortar, places that you purchase products from.

Build your own store.

The differences are pretty obvious. I can think of two right off the top of my head:

1. Scale. Building a new store is not a massive undertaking. Commercial space is readily built and a commodity, to a great extent. Even if/when Nordstrom built a building itself, it would be a small fraction of the cost of building an arena.
2. Supply and demand. The number of sports teams is very, very limited... and the demand is high across the country. It's fair to think of it as a "race to the bottom" as cities and states vie for professional sports teams, but it's just part of real life.

Amazon will get an awesome deal from some city when they build their second headquarters for similar reasons.

With all of this being said, Seattle might not participate in this sort of support for an arena if it means passing along to (non-events attending) taxpayers. I live about ten blocks from the Key and I think it would be great to get it updated, but I'm not looking forward to the construction. #richcityproblems