forget about a pro football team. The Alamodome is not acceptable to the NFL and there is no way the taxpayers would approve a 450 million bond issue to build a new stadium that would be acceptable even if someone wanted to move here...
The Dome at the time was built to lure a team here, that or an expansion one. It didn't and now where left with a big ass warehouse. There shouldn't be a tax funded increase to make additions. If an owner comes down, he's going to have to pay for the renovations himself. I agree CC the taxpayers will not stand another tax hike.
I agree. The Dome, thankfully, is paid for and does generate good revenue...not as good as it would with a football team, though. We missed the boat on that one.
After having the dome built...the city showed a lack of initiative in trying very hard to go after a team. When the dome was built it was considered a viable stadium. That is when the city should have tried it's hardest.
San Antonio just plain sucks.
They would support a tax hike to help a bum on the street that wont work, BUT,
to build or renovate something that would envigorate an area?
Screw that.
Here's the deal.
We need to improve our schools.
From grades K-12 and then are colleges and Universities.
Then and only then will we be able to get corporations to relocate to SA and make this their base of operations.
That then translates to better jobs, better incomes, better sponsorships, and better chance for more pro sports.
It's going to start with our schools.
Get that literacy number higher, those TASK tester scores higher, better SAT scores citywide, decrease drop out rate, higher, better enrollment at the local universities and community colleges.
Instead of South San High School students spending 40 years trying to get a damn bookstore to the Southside, they should first get the residents of the Southside to read… better… just read. Then when they get good paying jobs and the logical economic numbers are there, Barnes ‘n’ Nobles and Borders will be lining up Military Dr. and Southcross Blvd. and those other unknown Southside streets that are currently home to run down bars and gas stations.
Well, good luck with all that!! This city will always agree to disagree it seems.
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