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[Seattle Times] 15 years after moving Sonics, now it’s the Thunder asking for publicly funded arena (www.seattletimes.com)

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[–] BestUserName510@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I wrote my final paper in school on this. Even privately funded arenas cost cities and country 100s of millions in infrastructure improvements.

And before people argue about developments occurring around arenas, any economic development has been show to just be shifted from what would have happened in the city regardless. Building an arena just concentrates certain development around it without being additive

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