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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by JohnFen on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:07PM (#19164200)
> Unless it's for a football stadium.

You haven't seen the perpetual and energetic fights in my part of the nation about public funding for football (and other professional sports) stadiums. Sports businesses trying to get tax money to be spent in order to enhance their profitability is absolutely something that brings out the opposition.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by humanrebar on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:05PM (#19167316)
Correct. St. Louis and San Diego both let pro football clubs leave recently.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by ennisthemennis on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:07PM (#19168384)
It's more complicated than just St. Louis and San Diego not wanting to put up money. The owners of the respective teams wanted to move to LA pretty much no matter what, and requested particularly absurd things so they could pretend they tried
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by ThirdFoundation on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:29AM (#19171146)
I think Oakland would be a better example of a city not caving in to giving to Raiders money to build a stadium...

So Las Vegas gave them a lot of money.

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