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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: April 04, 2024, 10:20:28 PM »the crossroads location is the correct location. increase the density downtown block by block, don’t over complicate it. this didn’t fail because of the location, it failed because the confluence of other factors related to poor communication.this poll only had 233 votes from whatever twitter users happened to see it, but still. It's so dang obvious
https://twitter.com/_chandler_____/status/1775354143273562589?t=eI3vGNHVYt22Xt4AvmdMOw&s=19
I'm still opposed to giving a dickhead billionaire taxpayer money, but i've talked to multiple people and seen this same thing in many other places. This would have probably passed if they had just stuck with the east village and/or not changed it at the last minute. Seeing money flow to an area that is basically vacant is much more appealing than the Crossroads spot at least to me. Neither is economically advantageous to anyone but the owners, but at least a new area of the city would be built up a bit.
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I think the “we’re not giving public funds to billionaires” is certainly a reason some voted no, but as this process evolved, there’s much more at play here to drive the “no” vote.
In addition to a citizenry worn down and betrayed by their county leaders on previous tax issues, the Royals and Chiefs themselves played a massive part in this loss. You have a stadium that is regarded around the game as a jewel that the team’s owner wants to demolish. You have self-imposed deadlines that you miss not by days or weeks but by months. You have concrete cancer in one stadium but not the other. You have businesses that will be uprooted from a beloved arts district. You have an incredibly vague Community Benefits Agreement that was delivered late in the process. Here’s the big one: You have billionaires asking for $2 billion in tax money without presenting a coherent plan for what they are going to do with that money.
“Trust us,” they told the electorate of Jackson County.
“Get bent,” the electorate told them back.
https://intothefountains.substack.com/p/royals-lose-sales-tax-vote-jackson-county?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Craig Brown is my favorite Royals read. For an out-of-towner, I thought he broke down the poor communication that Clams referenced pretty well.
