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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Academic studies only conclude what they set out to conclude.
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No. Academic studies or any “study” worth the paper it was written on conclude what they can measure based on empirical evidence.
There is no empirical evidence that truly measures what a sports team brings to a city because it is subjective. At the extremes it’s everything & nothing to
citizens at the same time.
Attempting to quantify it is like knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
But what is self evident value is something as genuine &
cool as the Red Mile organically rising in 2004.
You can’t plan it, force it, or will it to happen. You can only enable a setting for it to happen in.
Now, the Red Mile was a bit of a unicorn, but it showed what is possible.
With the right placemaking a similar scene could be generated by an entertainment district that would chug along happily day to day & peak during events.