Anyone know if Olympia plans on going through with this development between the Fox/Fillmore theaters? They were supposed to break ground on this by now.
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Anyone know if Olympia plans on going through with this development between the Fox/Fillmore theaters? They were supposed to break ground on this by now.
no one ever knows if Ilitch will follow through on a development, unless it's a stadium
In short, he's a jerk.
An oil refinery would be a comparatively superior public expenditure. Refineries provide lots of high paying jobs, and usually lower local fuel prices.
A subsidized stadium will provide no net economic benefit over an unsubsidized one. There won't be one additional job created.
Also, who are these "hundreds of thousands of sports fans" who prefer that their tax dollars go to billionaires pocketbooks as opposed to schools, roads, safety or economic development? I haven't yet met one.
I'll believe it when I see it. He hasn't earned my trust yet. So far all he's done is taxpayer funded stadiums and surface lots.
They already tried that, in the final season at Tiger Stadium[[under city ownership) there was 1 dollar from every ticket set aside for future upkeep of the stadium. Long story short, following the end of the season the city sells the stadium to Ilitch for $1, and along with it came that 2 million dollar collection for upkeep, everyone should know the rest of the story. Free Money!
The scary thing is how much pull Ilitch has within the state. He got Tiger torn down, even though the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy and U.S. Senator Carl Levin secured funds and had a sound business plan for saving and redeveloping the site, it didn't get a chance. The DEGC played the role of facilitator.
Baseball field or not, pretty much all my relatives had been to Tiger, and they're all in the GR area. It was a Michigan institution for many. There aren't too many...
Finally, the most pathetic thing is the fact the mower gang has been shouldering the maintenance load for the field so long. It does say something about Tiger Stadium that a group is so dedicated to keeping the field intact...Pizza! Pizza!
Let me bring you up to date on that concept.... :[[
http://archive.freep.com/article/201...-officials-say
Seldom, if ever, do the promised jobs appear after companies are granted huge sums of corporate welfare.
Kinda reminds me of the Little Ceasers GO-Fast boat,once a world champion that now sits in a vacant lot in Miami,stripped and full of moldy rain water.Once it serves its purpose it is allowed to waste away.Kinda like a building.
Sorry, but no. Need to google a bit harder, and actually read posts carefully before responding.
Again, oil refineries offer lots of high paying jobs, and decrease gas prices. The next stadium taxpayer boondoggle does neither.
The same is true for the Marathon refinery. Your link has an article dealing with refinery air pollution and net new jobs being created from an existing refinery. It says nothing about gas prices nor existing jobs nor existing salaries.