Stadia Mania: The Business, Civic, and Legal Issues of New Stadium Construction (Part Two)

By: John R. Middleton, Jr., Esq.,1 Scott L. Walker, Esq.,2 and Matthew Savare, Esq.3   Cashing In: Economic Benefits of New Sports Facilities In Part I of this article, we briefly examined two of the most prominent issues related to the successful completion of new sports facilities projects: public financing of new stadia; and the use of eminent domain to acquire all or part of the proposed stadium site at a lower price than might otherwise be paid in a free-market transaction. We now turn