What he wants to do isn't groundbreaking, no pun intended. As others have said, it's a model we've seen across not only the NFL but other sports. The new Braves stadium, Camden Yards, Coors Field,... etc... those latter two may have had growth that was more organic and less pre-planned but regardless same principle. In an ideal world, it would be continuous development of restaurants, retail, residential, etc... from the stadium all the way to downtown. It's not going to be just a couple hotels that people use 10 times a year. It has be a live / work / play community to make it really profitable. And if he is putting down his own money (for a portion of it at least), he'll make a boatload of cash if it works.

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