All the Marlins stadium giveaway news that’s fit to print
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hiWeek of Oct. 7
The architect of Miami-Dade County’s $3 billion Florida Marlins stadium giveaway is seething at a New York Times report that pinpoints some of the boondoggle’s worst aspects.
The article “took unwarranted editorial liberties and omitted important facts about our decision,” County Manager George Burgess wrote in a letter to reporter Ken Belson that he copied to the paper’s top executives, county and city executives and elected officials and, of course, the Marlins.
The article, headed “In Lean Times, Miami Pays Most of Cost for New Ballpark,” pointed out that the deal proceeded in the depths of the recession and that in return for the county and City of Miami covering three-quarters of the stadium costs they “will receive no new revenue from the park, and the team can keep all the money from the 50 luxury suites, concessions and advertising, as well as from naming rights, which alone could generate more than $100 million.”
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