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    Yankee Stadium Tragedy

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    The reason for the subsidies of these stadiums over recent years has been the incredible cost of construction. There are over 100 various sports stadium in the U.S. with sixty-four new major league facilities alone have been built over a 16 -year span beginning in the early 1990’s at a combined costs of over $20 billion (Sanderson). One high profile example is of the new Yankee Stadium in New York: “The construction cost is expected to be around $1.3 billion… New York City is projected to spend

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    Ballpark Benefits

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    The benefits to building a new stadium in a city is the Construction of the proposed ballpark would have an immediate, one-time impact on the local economy and the District’s tax collections. The $272 million ballpark will be build by a private company with the job of completing the ballpark in a 3years. Inside the contract value, the contractor will spend over a $100 million dollars on building materials and pay $80 million in payroll to workers during the construction period. The projected payroll

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    subsidies have become the main way to finance a lot of the stadiums being built all around the United States. A stadium subsidy is a sort of government subsidy provided for a professional sports team to help invest in the building or improvement of sports stadiums. Even though these subsidies are occurring that does not mean that they are good. As a matter of fact they do more harm than good to the economy of the area the stadium is built in. This situation brings in taxes, business collapse

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    The faint sound of music slowly becomes clearer approaching the stadium. The sound of exciting screams and singing lingers in the air. It is every millennial teenage girl's fantasy: a One Direction concert. A concert can be entertaining and exhilarating because one gets to see a favorite artist and experience something new. Going to a concert is an experience incomparable to any other. Here it is, the moment, every concert goer has been waiting for, the artist coming onto the stage. Hearts begin

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    under way in Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Nashville, San Francisco, St. Louis, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C., and are in the planning stages in Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, New York, and Pittsburgh. Major stadium renovations have been undertaken in Jacksonville and Oakland. Industry experts estimate that more than $7 billion will be spent on new facilities for professional sports teams before 2006. Most of this $7 billion will come from public sources

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    Julie Mehretu’s paintings are loosely termed history paintings by Douglas Fogle and called psychogeographies by the artist herself. A viewer is supposed to find something in themselves much like exploring a city and figuring things out for one’s own self-interest. Mehretu is quoted as saying “my aim is to have a picture that appears one way from a distance-almost like a cosmology, city, or universe from afar- but then when you approach the work, the overall image shatters into numerous other pictures

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    my field study report, I have decided to write about the third round match I went to between world number one Rafael Nadal and Albert Ramos Viñolas. The main stadium at the Western and Southern Open holds 11,435 people, and since one of the most popular players was playing Rafa the stadium was very filled this day (cite). Inside the stadium, there were three sponsorships that stuck out the most to me Emirates, University of Cincinnati Hospital, and Western and Southern. Through some investigation

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    1990-1995 (commerce): At the end of The Eighties, more fans resulted in more accidents and violent situations (Belden, 2012), in 1990 there were new safety measurements to be adopted in the UK stadia, followed by many nations later. At this step; the stadium was larger, safer, and had more permanent spaces for different activities (Spampinato, 2004). Consequently, these facilities were

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    Sports Stadiums can be found in many cities across the United States. These Stadiums can cost millions of dollars to build but have the potential to bring in much more. While there are many benefits to building and operating a sports stadium, there are more downsides economically. New Stadiums can bring many jobs and more income to a city in the beginning however as time goes on, those jobs prove to be unreliable and taxpayers are left paying for a stadium they may never step foot in. With this,

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    because stadiums do not do much to encourage them to come back. Without incentives, stadiums will lose many people at events and that results in a major loss of income. In order for a stadium to be successful, owners must intimately know what fans dislike, have a clear understanding of what they like, and figure out what fans want in sports stadiums in order for them to come back. A big amount of money is made in stadiums when the owners find out what the fans like seeing in the stadiums and even

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