Tag: Miami

Stadium

San Francisco 49ers owner, Jed York, continues spending millions to sway local politicians. When will it be called out nationally?

Several weeks ago, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers, Jed York, was arrested in a prostitution sting in Ohio. York was charged with engaging in prostitution and possession of criminal tools, both misdemeanors. One would think that York's mind would be focusing on dealing with the fallout, both professionally and personally, of his arrest. But this is Jed York. This week, the San Francisco Gate wrote a story detailing how, prostitute or not, York continues…

William Neilson Jr.
Stadium

Can anyone support the constant waste of public money by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority?

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) has been called the “marketing arm of Southern Nevada's tourism industry.” It is funded by roughly $460M in annual revenue from hotel taxes. The Nevada Independent wrote an article in 2023 that noted how the LVCVA is supposed to represent and “ensure the public interest” with tourism-related issues. Instead, the LVCVA only promotes local resorts and has “long been a champion of throwing public money to private…

William Neilson Jr.
Stadium

World Cup matches were going to cost Boston taxpayers virtually nothing…until now

Whenever a city or country is trying to get the World Cup to come to their area, we are told that these cities/countries will be rich after making trillions from these World Cup matches. Not only that, taxpayers will not have to spend anything for the matches. Sounds good, doesn't it? Some recent expectations include: In 2002, cities in Japan and South Korea hosted World Cup matches and were told to expect economic gains of…

William Neilson Jr.
Stadium

The San Francisco 49ers promise to pay for all World Cup expenses…somewhat…kind of…maybe?

In February 2024, it was announced that 16 cities in North America, including Santa Clara's Levi Stadium, home to the San Francisco 49ers, would host six games for the 2026 World Cup. But hosting games for the World Cup is quite costly. Brazil almost went bankrupt after spending $12 billion on now-unused stadiums for their World Cup hosting duties in 2014. Furthermore, over the last few years, big sporting events in Santa Clara promised “big economic payoff(s)”, such…

William Neilson Jr.
Ballpark

Did the cities of Fort Lauderdale & Miami actually stand up for themselves against a professional team?

Inter Miami FC seem to get into plenty of fights. Even though Inter Miami was only created in 2018, they have constantly been fighting with the city of Fort Lauderdale, where their temporary stadium is located and the city of Miami, where their main stadium is currently being built building. When Inter Miami isn't illegally adding seats to their stadium, they are withholding money that is contractually owed to the city of Fort Lauderdale just…

William Neilson Jr.
Arena

The Miami Heat continue to screw over Miami-Dade County by refusing to follow through on their promised waterfront park

In 1996, the Miami Heat were losing the PR battle for a new basketball arena. The Miami Heat were trying to justify to the public why the team should be given a new sports arena on the public's dime. As a former Heat political consultant wrote in 2004, as the referendum date got closer, the “arena project appeared to be doomed”. So how did they turn it around and win the vote? They did everything…

William Neilson Jr.
Stadium

Fort Lauderdale decides to build a previously agreed upon park and to bill Inter Miami owners

Several weeks ago, I wrote a story about how Inter Miami had simply not fulfilled their side of an agreement with the city in exchange for the city helping financially with a new stadium. The stadium was built yet today, there is no public park. A park that was supposed to be built by the end of 2022 at the latest and would include a “sprawling park with a playground, dog park, walking trail, fitness…

William Neilson Jr.
Stadium

Inter Miami: We agreed to build a park? Can we have some more public money then?

Four years ago, David Beckham and his partners (Inter Miami) came to Florida wanting to build a brand-new soccer stadium. They asked the city of Fort Lauderdale for $170 million in taxpayer money and also received a “50-year, rent-free lease of city-owned land”. The city, however, wanted something in return, so Inter Miami agreed to build a “sprawling park with a playground, dog park, walking trail, fitness area, yoga lawn, sports field, kickball zone and…

William Neilson Jr.