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Originally Posted by MarkGio
How does America's biggest bunkrupted city afford $285 million towards an arena that no local can afford to go to? The average income in Detroit is less than 30K.
The city of Detroit will not lose their orignal 6 hockey team. Man, these cities are either stupid, crooked or need to grow a pair and tell these billionaires to fully fund their own toys.
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People in the suburbs of Detroit will come in, and you want to encourage them to stick around to provide to the economy. So chipping in to help revitalize this area and bring more life to downtown isn't a bad use of government money. They need to do stuff like this in order to recover.