Stadiums and the Business of Sports

Cities spend massive amounts of public money on privately-owned stadiums. Cities issue tax-exempt municipal bonds that — wait, don’t fall asleep! C... (2018)

Cities want football teams. Owners want stadiums. In the past 20 years, over $7 billion in public money has gone towards financing the construction... (2018)

Elected officials have been played by team owners and sports leagues. (2019)

New York City is considered one of the country’s most crowded market for sports stadiums and arenas — many of which have been built with sizable pu... (2019)

The Los Angeles Stadium, future joint-home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, is on schedule to finish construction by 2020. I... (2019)

MLB’s attendance, you might have heard, was down last year, around four percent by season’s end. The league’s front office, represented by anthropo... (2019)

RFK Stadium is taking up a very desirable plot of federal land in Washington, D.C.—and no one can agree what to do with it. (2020)