Green Bay is a hundred miles away from Milwaukee and those Milwaukee Packers, right? Green Bay is the third largest city in the state touting about 105k folks. It shares a swath of the shore with Chicago and their Milwaukee ball town. Each Packers game brings in more than 10 million bucks to town, 100 miles away from Milwaukee.
I get frustrated, particularly with the weekly sport's league and the other feetball league, of a fixation to be very in and around downtowns of metropoli'.
And while infrastructure helps dictate a good place to put a place (stadium), particularly highways and bustling areas, with other amenities already in place like parking garages that are of frequent use, stadium placement doesn't need to hum to that tune. A new tailgate mecca can be built.
And with the likes of Green Bay in mind, take a gander at the map at a town
called
Reform, Alabama. And maybe tell me that some Field of Dreams built there wouldn't beckon some kind of economic boom for Alabama on Sundays with the NFL. Two days in a row! Now that's a party. If you build it,... .
I'm for creating an economy, thereby boom'towning one.
Talking about economic impact of new stadiums, especially those shouldered largely by taxpayers, is getting played out. Yay for low paying service positions that flux and restaurants that still struggle and close. But for a place like small town Alabama (
which I'm largely talking out of my ass about, for I do not know them) that could be a welcomed flux. Have weekly stay cabins and sports bars to host people with Gatlinsburg'esque packages, as a 30 mile break from Tuscaloosa.
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