Public Dollars, Private Stadiums : The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(6) 1. Local Growth Coalitions and Publicly Funded Stadiums 7(14) 2. Strategies for Building Private Stadiums with Public Dollars 21(22) 3. Cincinnati: Queen City of Local Growth Coalitions 43(22) 4. Cleveland: The Comeback Growth Coalition 65(20) 5. Minneapolis and Hartford: Declining Local Growth Coalitions 85(20) o. Denver, Phoenix, and San Diego: Nascent Growth Coalitions on the Frontier 105(50) 7. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia: Strong versus Weak Local Growth Coalitions 155(28) 8. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy 183(22) Appendix: Methodology 205(6) Notes 211(6) Bibliography 217(4) Index 221