Tag: Spring Training

Arena Ballpark Stadium

Does your sports team need help convincing the public to give the team billions of taxpayer dollars? Call the Seidman Research Institute

The Phoenix Business Journal wrote a story on a recently released study by the Seidman Research Institute that discussed how a women's final four tournament held in the area generated a huge economic impact for the state of Arizona. Apparently, this tournament created $42.2 million for Arizona's Gross Domestic Product for Phoenix, while the State of Arizona saw a $71.5 million overall impact. However, the report appears to be missing a lot of information. The report admits to JUST using “new dollars” that Arizona may have received during the tournament. What about expenses? What about the substitute effect? Or…

William Neilson Jr.
Ballpark

In Mesa, Arizona, city officials did not want residents to know about a stadium agreement so they had a 12 minute meeting right before Thanksgiving

The day before Thanksgiving, the Mesa City Council held a 12-minute meeting (with no residents in attendance) that allowed for 80 acres of land to be classified as a “theme park district.” Moving forward, this land will now be called “Palo District.” The big prize of this deal was how it sets up for a new soccer stadium to be built on this land. For years, the city of Mesa has been trying to figure out a way to get either an MLS or NWSL soccer team to their city. When the city attorney went in front of the…

William Neilson Jr.
Ballpark

The Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays are fighting each other for tourist dollars

When the Tampa Bay Rays do construct a new ballpark, it will be with a significant amount of taxpayer money. For years, it has been reported that the Rays are “willing to finance half of the cost of a new (ballpark)”. How nice of them. But the Rays couldn't build it on their own if they wanted to because their owner isn't wealthy enough to fund such a project. This means the Rays will need as much taxpayer funds as possible.

William Neilson Jr.