The city wants to spend $165,000,000 (ya that’s $165 million) on another sports stadium in Seattle. This time it’s for replacing Memorial Stadium which is technically owned by the Seattle School District.
Where will the money come from? You guessed it from your bank accounts!
When I was in high school we along with the rest of the Metro league played our football games in Memorial Stadium. In the 90s Seattle Public Schools went on a very expensive High school sports fields building spree which today including renovations and upgrades probably exceeds the $150 million they want from us to build another stadium. The point of building stadium fields at each High school was to avoid having to juggle so many games over a week-end and fans having to drive across the city to fight over expensive parking with the crowds there for other city center events.
We already have invested so much money in all these high school stadium fields that spending another $165 million does not make sense for Seattle school district. The district is basically broke and can barley meet its current financial obligations.
If various groups in Seattle want to build a new stadium then they should follow in the University of Washington’s footsteps and ask all those big buck donors to once again pony up and pay for a new sports stadium.
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