I am not in favor of giving billionaires money. But unfortunately this is how the vast majority of these deals work.
In this case the money is coming from the hospitality and tourism fund which by state law has to be used for projects that generate tourism dollars. They have the money in the budget, it doesn’t require a tax increase and Tepper is matching the public contribution. That’s about as good as it gets for a deal like this.
Be thankful we aren’t dealing with KCs stadium situation. They’ve been trying to get a deal don’t for 20 years and still aren’t close. Arrowhead is a dump in the middle of nowhere