The impact of urban form on downtown stadium redevelopment projects: a comparative analysis of Phoenix and Denver

Buckman, Stephen; Mack, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1080/17549175.2012.659071

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“…However, not all sports projects have been successful. Projects in Baltimore (Chapin 2004) and Phoenix (Buckman and Mack 2012;Rosentraub 1999) were evaluated and shown not to have contributed to redevelopment in those cities. Stadium projects can fail because of a lack of appropriate consideration of urban form (Buckman and Mack 2012), too much regional emphasis on suburbanization (Rosentraub 1999), or because of a lack of subsequent investments to generate meaningful growth for surrounding neighborhoods (Chapin 2004).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Left on Base: Minor League Baseball Stadiums and Gentrification

Holm

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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Researchers have analyzed stadiums as an urban redevelopment tool for two decades but little work has studied what effect sports facilities have on gentrification. This article attempts to fill that void in the literature, using a multicity panel study to understand how minor league baseball stadiums affect the immediately surrounding areas on measures of redevelopment and gentrification. Regression results show that census tracts near a new minor league baseball stadium saw significant increases in the median income and slower growth in the share of minorities, but no change in the median rent or the overall rate of residential turnover. These findings indicate that minor league baseball stadiums create elements of both economic growth and demographic change, an outcome that deserves consideration when planning similar projects in the future.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Left on Base: Minor League Baseball Stadiums and Gentrification

Holm

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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“…This study also contributes to a larger narrative about the impact of sports facilities and associated development on local economic activity (Buckman and Mack ). Recently, Cantor and Rosentraub (), for instance, found that the San Diego Padres' owner investment in land development in the Petco Park baseball district has resulted in the creation of a socially and economically integrated neighborhood.…”

Section: Professional Sports and Redistribuionmentioning

confidence: 83%

Local Sales Tax Revenue Redistribution and Sports: The Case of Major League Soccer in Bridgeview

Propheter¹

2014

Public Budgeting & Finance

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This study examines the extent to which Toyota Park, a Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium in the Village of Bridgeview, redistributes municipal sales tax revenue by taking advantage of Illinois's highly devolved local government structure. The analysis reveals that Toyota Park and its associated events are not statistically related to the village's sales tax revenue. However, the stadium affects surrounding municipalities' revenue; though, the odds a municipality will be a net winner or loser is nearly even.

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“…In Cleveland, Progressive Field and the Rocket Mortgage Field House attract five million people annually into the Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex (Rosensweig, 2005). In Denver, civic planners envisioned Lower Downtown (LoDo) becoming a vibrant district with retail, restaurants and housing with Coors Field at its center (Buckman and Mack, 2012). Detroit hoped that Comerica Park along with the Ford Field football stadium could provide vibrancy to a planned entertainment district of “sports bars, microbreweries and music cafés” surrounding the renovated Fox Theater (Bachelor, 1998).…”

Section: Eras Of Urban Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, their record for encouraging economic activity is mixed as development was generally left to the workings of private capital and market conditions (Chapin, 2004). Cleveland's Gateway Project and Denver's LoDo have been identified as success stories, while Detroit and Phoenix are perceived as cautionary tales as they failed to reinvigorate their surrounding neighborhoods (Bachelor, 1998; Buckman and Mack, 2012; Rosensweig, 2005). Rosentraub (2010) attributes outcomes to planning as, “simply put, too many cities did more ‘hoping’ than they did planning a strategy or establishing partnerships with private capital to achieve success” (p. 7).…”

Section: Eras Of Urban Governancementioning

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Beyond “who pays?”: stadium development and urban governance

Friedman

Beissel

2020

IJSMS

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reframe analyses of stadium and arena subsidization policies from perspectives centered upon economic and financial issues toward a perspective focused on broader issues of urban governance and the public purposes of sports facilities. Such assessments would provide a better understanding of whether such use of public resources represents good public policy.Design/methodology/approachTo demonstrate this, the paper uses an integrated literature review to offer a historical analysis of sport facility development within the context of the broader assumptions that shape public policy and how sports have been used toward achieving particular public goals. This history provides a foundation for an analysis of sports facility development within the current moment as cities require team owners to invest in redevelopment activities in the neighborhoods surrounding sports facilities.FindingsThis paper asserts that focusing on the economic and financial aspects of sports facility development is a perspective that is too narrow. Instead, this paper shows that a more holistic approach, beginning with the dominant mode of urban governance and how its assumptions underlie the public purposes for which stadiums and arenas are used, provides a better explanatory framework and a deeper understanding of the issue in the contemporary moment.Originality/valueMoving beyond the question of economic efficacy, the public purpose-centered approach of this paper seeks to place subsidization policies into a broader dialog with other priorities toward maximizing the public good among the broadest population.

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The impact of urban form on downtown stadium redevelopment projects: a comparative analysis of Phoenix and Denver

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Left on Base: Minor League Baseball Stadiums and Gentrification

Left on Base: Minor League Baseball Stadiums and Gentrification

Local Sales Tax Revenue Redistribution and Sports: The Case of Major League Soccer in Bridgeview

Beyond “who pays?”: stadium development and urban governance

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