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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm unhappy with any subsidy for this. There was no will to develop the parking lots around Miller Park for 20 years. If they had gotten developed -- or if the massive pile of money the team owner has access to was simply used -- there would be no justification for getting public money involved outside of any infrastructure improvements needed to support said development.

I forget, was this brought up at all during the discussions about Act 12 before it got passed? The prospect of another subsidy really feels like a bait-and-switch inside a law that already had so much poison inside it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed!

I feel like the whole “form a committee to study redevelopment of the parking lot” in particular is really evidently misleading.. literally just meaningless words designed to sound good, but with no teeth behind them whatsoever.

In the bill, its literally 1 sentence.. All it does is require the stadium district/brewers owner/city/county to write a report saying whether or not redevelopment is “feasible”… said report isnt even due for a full 2 years.