[Slyfox]

Laura Miller is a fool. The Cowboys wanted to go back to their real roots in Dallas, the Cotton Bowl area, to build the stadium. Jerry Jones was going to put in something like $225,000,000 of his own money. His effort would have greatly expanded the new development emanating from the downtown high-rise apartments and business development heading towards Fair Park.

Mayor Miller wants instead to build 2 or 3 bridges over a river that ain't worth a crap to fish in, look at or even drive over.

Which plan would do the most for Dallas? A stadium that would be a major hub for surrounding development or a couple of bridges over an ugly river?

[cowtowney]

"Jerry Jones was going to put in something like $225,000,000 of his own money. His effort would have greatly expanded the new development emanating from the downtown high-rise apartments and business development heading towards Fair Park."

There is no way this was anything but corporate welfare for the Joneses.

The Trinity River Project (w/ bridges) is also a bunch of corporate welfare and a waste of taxpayer money.

Here's an idea for city hall... leave real estate investing to the private sector. Just fix the roads and make the neighborhoods safe...then fix the schools...when you get that done, you can watch TV. Until then, don't even ask.

[HHFi]

I live just a few blocks from Fair Park, am a lifelong staunch Republican, know Laura Miller, and was absolutely opposed to that stupid eyesore stadium. Fair Park is now a beautifully-restored Art Deco district, and gentrified historic homes, nice restaurants, etc. are filling in around it. That stadium would've destroyed the park, turned the surrounding area into a giant concrete parking lot, created horrible traffic jams (as it does now around Texas Stadium) and given Jerry Jones carte blanche to ruin the neighborhood and loot the treasury. I could not have been happier when the suckers in Arlington agreed to hike their taxes to help out the billionaire because it meant he wouldn't be coming back here and targeting us again.

/rant

[des]

i had no idea JJ was planning that...cool plan.