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MLS stadium plans for Charlotte, Raleigh about to flop?

Soccer promoters in North Carolina’s two biggest cities have pursued public and private financing in their bids to build stadiums and attract major league clubs, but questions in Raleigh over a proposed stadium built on public land and hits to Charlotte’s public funding plan threaten to draw the dreaded red card. Mecklenburg County commissioners voted...

Will Rierson
Podcast

Charlotte, Raleigh groups pursue different paths for new pro soccer team

From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 741: Prospective owners are pushing competing plans to bring Major League Soccer to Charlotte or Raleigh. The Charlotte plan calls for taxpayers to foot the bill for most of the cost of a new stadium. Meanwhile, the Raleigh plan calls for private financing of a stadium that would sit...

Julie Tisdale
Video

JLF’s Julie Tisdale pans taxpayer support of new sports stadiums

Julie Tisdale, John Locke Foundation city and county policy analyst, explains why taxpayer support of new sports stadiums doesn’t make economic sense for Raleigh or other communities. Tisdale offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

Julie Tisdale

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