inliner311
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Personally, I don't care where those events are held because in most cases, it's just pulling discretionary consumer spending from one location to another. No team, people will just spend more money at restaurants or other entertainment elsewhere. Not sure the net gain in the Northeast Ohio region overall is significant.
If Haslam wants to spend his own money, great. If not, I'd vote against any levy.
I get that. I'm not sure how much of a net gain the dome will be for the Northeast Ohio area. I can see some big concerts picking to come to Cleveland over Columbus which could pull people out of the region to come up here. I just don't think it will be that many of those types of concerts.
The one thing is I think the City of Cleveland and the low income population benefits from pulling in people from the suburbs to events of all kinds. I just think it would suck to pull that out from that population and give it to brookpark. Brookpark's population is so much smaller that they will most likely just spending the excess money on unnecessary facilities. While Cleveland municipal School district is projected to have a 168 million dollar budget deficit by 2026.