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I think they should get Enron to sponsor the stadium, as this will end up about as well as that did. 140M for a 11k minor league soccer stadium that will draw about 3k a game. Yikes.

https://www.wpri.com/target-12/pawtucket-soccer-stadium-construction-stalls-amid-funding-woes/amp/ Construction workers leaving to work on other projects as financing stalls.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ridiculous-possibility-of-more-taxpayer-money-for-superman-building-sparks-debate/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/26/metro/rhode-island-fc-evaluating-venue-options-amid-questions-about-tidewater-landing-stadium/#bgmp-comments

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/23/metro/superman-building-developer-still-does-not-have-timeline-construction/

Revs moving to Everett is probably 10 years away at best. Tough to complete with a MLS team backed by Kraft's $$$ in the meantime and all the while the state has to pay off 45M in bonds.

Globe reports some trouble with the project: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/metro/tidewater-landing-faces-economic-headwinds-city-acknowledges/

Is this a good time to point out that property tax revenue is what makes cities grow, and that tall buildings generate more taxes than microbreweries, pedestrian bridges and vacant lots?

I'm not sure a new pedestrian bridge is a sign of winning, but otherwise this bodes poorly for the city and state. If this isn't going to get built, why would anyone pony up to save the superman building or that absurd soccer stadium boondoggle in Pawtucket? Much like losing the Pawsox because...

A few thoughts: 1) okay, boomer is pretty funny 2) I don't think the census is doing an actual count every year, it's just an estimate based on....? FWIW their estimate leading up to the actual count in 2020 way underestimated Massachusetts population growth. 3) This building will be a welcome...

I haven't seen a study but aren't tolls considered to be really regressive? I suppose people could wave their tax return when going under the gantry but that's tough to do while driving.

I believe the tower is built on a slope, and having walked through the neighboring building many times to cut through I can easily picture it being 691 from the ground on one side and 700 on the other. Regardless of all that, the way the developers handled this was brilliant. They never...

You can't ask a developer to pony up 150m for linkage payments and then also add all kinds of bells and whistles to the design. So pick your poison. If every building comes along with a requirement to fund every non profit in the city, you're going to get blander designs.

They'll just force the state to hand over more subsidies!

That it's one of the deadliest cities in New England with one of the highest poverty rates and a declining population as low as it's been in the last 110 years? Or did you skip over those facts? Hartford = dump. If people aren't going to acknowledge reality how do you ever expect the place to...

I think you might have the wrong city.. https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-hartford-murder-pace-record-year-20210703-5ffsliavb5hdbjxvvmc6wbzlte-story.html https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/city/connecticut/hartford

Baseless racism accusations aside, in my several trips to Hartford (pre-Covid) the downtown was abandoned. Empty storefronts and boarded up buildings galore, even the restaurant in the Civic Center. The mall downtown was half filled mostly with dollar stores and signs warning you that you...

Hartford is a dump, and I don't find any humor in that. I'm old enough to remember when it was flying high back in the mid 80's. But like CT and RI as a whole, there's no reason for businesses to locate there instead of neighboring MA and NY. Connecticut isn't that much cheaper than it's...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/14/metro/ri-commerce-officials-balk-mckees-plan-shift-tidewater-landing-soccer-stadium-funds/ Rhode Island politicians are out of their minds if they make this deal. Pretty soon they'll be paying as much for a soccer stadium for a low level league as they...

I agree completely that it's less egregious than the Buffalo scam, but it's related. Developers go to struggling places and act like they have the taxpayers over a barrel. At 285 condo's paying approximately 300K+ on average you're looking at 100M in revenue, while I read the developer is...