High Stakes : Big Time Sports and Downtown Development /

Unlike so many other cities around the country, Columbus citizens gave a firm "no" to the proposal that public money be used to build an arena to attract an expansion professional hockey team and a soccer stadium to keep a professional franchise. Yet, both structures are now a permanent part of Colu...

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Prif Awdur: Curry, Timothy J. (Timothy Jon), 1943-
Awduron Eraill: Woldoff, Rachael, Schwirian, Kent P.
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2004.
Cyfres:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Crynodeb:Unlike so many other cities around the country, Columbus citizens gave a firm "no" to the proposal that public money be used to build an arena to attract an expansion professional hockey team and a soccer stadium to keep a professional franchise. Yet, both structures are now a permanent part of Columbuss landscape. High Stakes is the inside story of how a coalition of the city's movers and shakers successfully did an end-run around the electorate to build these sports complexes. As it turned out, everybody appears to have won: taxpayers were relieved of any funding obligation, the coalition got the new facilities, and the new arena jumpstarted downtown redevelopment. Now, the Columbus case is being touted as the model of how to use professional sports to improve a city's downtown with minimal taxpayer expense. [Publisher web site]
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:1 online resource (216 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814273272
Mynediad:Open Access