The people of Arlington, Texas want a new stadium:
With 98 percent of the vote counted, voters approved by a 60-to-40-percent margin Tuesday the extension of a half-cent sales tax, 2 percent hotel-occupancy tax and 5 percent car-rental tax for a new home for the Major League Baseball team. That revenue now goes to defraying Arlington’s $155 million debt on its share of the cost of the NFL Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium, which opened in 2009.
The vote also allows a 10 percent admission tax and a $3 parking tax for the Rangers’ use, the same deal reached for the Cowboys.
Wow. I would have thought after the Hartford, CT stadium fiasco that voters in other areas would be leery of paying for new parks, especially when the one they use isn’t that old.
from baseballmusings.com https://www.baseballmusings.com/?p=115630
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