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- High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Development
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: The Ohio State University Press
- Series: Urban Life and Urban Landscape
summary
Unlike so many other cities around the country, Columbus citizens gave a firm “no” to the proposal that public money be used to build an arena to attract an expansion professional hockey team and a soccer stadium to keep a professional franchise. Yet, both structures are now a permanent part of Columbus’s landscape. High Stakes is the inside story of how a coalition of the city’s movers and shakers successfully did an end-run around the electorate to build these sports complexes. As it turned out, everybody appears to have won: taxpayers were relieved of any funding obligation, the coalition got the new facilities, and the new arena jumpstarted downtown redevelopment. Now, the Columbus case is being touted as the model of how to use professional sports to improve a city’s downtown with minimal taxpayer expense. Professional sports have become a primary tool for the downtown redevelopment of many large cities. High Stakes portrays in vivid detail the twists and turns as this unlikely group fought doggedly to make their dream—and Columbus’s prosperous future—a reality.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 2. The Stadium Game
- pp. 11-27
- 6. From Win-Lose to Win-Win
- pp. 79-100
- Other Titles in the Series
- pp. 185-186
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814273272
Related ISBN(s)
9780814251256
MARC Record
OCLC
607402746
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes