[The Familia]

I think one of the biggest things to help stimulate a downturn in the economy is infrastructure. If you look at every economic depression across the world throughout various time periods, one of the first things done to stimulate the economy is infrastructure/make work capital projects. It really is the best time to build. Materials and labour are both cheap. It provides jobs and creates cash flow. It also gives a boost psychologically to the population that things are rebounding and growing. Nothing worse than watching your city decay during a depression and sitting around doing nothing to help.

I think this is the best time to forge ahead with things like the arena, BMO expansion, field house, arts commons, green line, etc. Maybe not all of them but a good chunk.