(10-08-2024, 01:59 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Interestingly enough - the data is out there and the numbers are too.

Oxford Economics did a study on bowl game impact on the O-town market when CWS has hosted them in recent years.

The data they gleaned was so good, they've been awarded hundreds of millions for improvements since. Nearly half of the public tourism tax funding available in that period.

Even if a single Jags game gleans slightly less than the estimated 60 million dollars of impact a bowl game generates, why in the name of all things holy would the city jeopardize that to make demands?

I can hear the council talking this over now... "Meh, who needs $315 million in additional economic impact in 2027, anyway?  If the Jags want to give that to our city, let's force them to do a bunch of [BLEEP] they don't want to do first!!"

Sounds sane.

BTW - here are the improvements the city of Orlando has already agreed to undertake to improve the stadium on its own dime as a result of that study:
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/...s%2C%20etc.

Very nice. That nukes the last argument. Well done.  If I had to guess Kahn would react the same way he did in the past to demands like this.

Remember the Jacksonville City attorney that had our newly elected mayor do something like this?  I believe it was Alvin Brown. She got fired and Brown needed to issue a statement retracting his position assuring Duval residents. (2010 or 2011?)

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