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Re:Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums by Animats on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:13AM (#18836869)
While the city of San Francisco put too much city money into the ballpark, that really was a run down warehouse area at the time.
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Re:Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums by masonic on Sunday January 06, 2019 @05:34PM (#18841179)
What city money?

Pacific Bell Park was wholly privately financed, much of that from seat licenses. And the ballpark was key to the redevelopment of the entire China Basin area -- look at aerial photographs of the region before 1999.

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