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Cincinnati City Council candidates open to helping fund new arena (www.bizjournals.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's like they're trying to get me to not vote for them.

Kudos to Ms. Parks at least.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Councilman Mark Jeffreys said any new arena needs to be privately funded but is open to the city funding public infrastructure needs. “If there are public infrastructure needs around an arena that need to be in place to enable that investment, then we should treat that no differently than we do any other economic development opportunity,” he said. “Today, there are times that we invest in public infrastructure to spur an economic development project that has a strong return on investment.”

That at least seems like a sensible attitude towards it all.

But is it not funny that we "have a huge backlog of 400 million dollars of maintenance" and that we need to sell the railway but at the same time there is apparently money to fund a new arena?

[–] omeara4pheonix 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that backlog exists because funds aren't managed well. I see no reason why the railroad money would be any different.