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Deserves to be called "Ilitch Arena" as well. Screw the corporate naming rights.
If the arena is right, I can live with a local business on the name...is Comerica Park that offensive?
Deserves to be called "Ilitch Arena" as well. Screw the corporate naming rights.
In your very same post, you seem to be contradicting yourself, which is it?
We know pro sports pump millions into an economy they have done studies on it. As long as Ilitch covers the majority of this it will be huge for the city of Detroit. I am not for a huge tax, but he should get some help, this is big for the entire community.
Also this is reaching Lindstrom status.
Mike Ilitch Sr., just one l in the name. With all he has done for the city I hope they name the arena after him and people learn how to spell his name.
If the arena is right, I can live with a local business on the name...is Comerica Park that offensive?
What do you think of Amway Arena?
Who is they? Construction lobbiests? Sports industry lobbiests?
Go to Google and type in: stadiums good for economy
If You Build It, They Might Not Come: The Risky Economics of Sports Stadiums
http://www.theatlantic.com/business...he-risky-economics-of-sports-stadiums/260900/
So I want to know how much money they think the TIF is going to raise for a new arena where private investors get all the reward?
I know how TIFs generally work. Let's see the mechanism here before decide this is a good thing for Detroit.
DDA money is not available to the city as general funds, so it won't go to PD, FD or schools anyway.
Add that to the fact that the people who run the city and distribute general funds are more dishonest/inept/corrupt than anyone involved with this new development, I say keep the money as far away from them as possible.
There are a lot of great things going on in the city, I hope and pull for its continued revival. But, every tangible amount of progress is happening due to people like Ilitch, Gilbert, Penske and the like (private sector business). The people who run the city do nothing but obstruct. EX: Belle Isle Lease situation.
Mike Ilitch Sr., just one l in the name. With all he has done for the city I hope they name the arena after him and people learn how to spell his name.
Whoops, my bad. Didn't even notice the spelling when reading it. So many I's and l's just caused some kine of optical illusion
Fixed.
What do you think of Amway Arena?
It will likely be a long time before you see anything. Id be suprised if anything happens in Mr. Ilitchs life time.
I live in Edmonton and a downtown arena complex has been on the negotiating table for 4+ years (and counting)...
potential sites for the new arena
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa...06282&spn=0.022207,0.036478&z=14&source=embed
Didnt a lot of bars close down due to the last lockout the NHL had?1) Where do you think DDA money comes from?
It's a taxation district overlaid on top of a region of the city.
Taxes on future property tax increases are diverted from the places they would normally go (schools/fire/pd etc).
2) I'm glad you want tax dollars to go straight into the hands of selected rich guys. I don't..
It's great having Ford Field downtown and a new Comerica Park... but how exactly did that change Detroit?
It didn't.
Didnt a lot of bars close down due to the last lockout the NHL had?
Legislation introduced in Lansing would create a new “catalyst development project” that could benefit from support from the Michigan Strategic Fund and also from the use of Downtown Development Authority tax revenues that support projects in the central business district.
Didnt a lot of bars close down due to the last lockout the NHL had?
The one next to Comerica is the best IMO.
How much revenue is generated by the whole tourism idea of it? Now that theres a shiny new arena I'm sure youll get a lot more people wanting to get there and check it out.