Public/private partnerships for major league sports facilities

"This volume takes readers inside the high-stakes game of public-private partnerships for major league sports facilities, explaining why some cities made better deals than others, assessing the best practices and common pitfalls in deal structuring and facility leases, as well as highlighting i...

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Main Author: Long, Judith Grant.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description: xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Routledge research in sport business and management.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: cities, sports facilities, and public/private partnerships
  • Moving towards partnerhip: public participation in financing major league sports facilities, 1900-2010
  • Full count: a model for estimating public costs in sports facility deals
  • Uncounted costs and unequal partnerships: the real cost of public funding for major league sports facilities
  • A league of their own: public participatation in sports facility deals across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL and MLS
  • Who's on first? the changing composition of partners and funding sources in major league sports facility deals
  • Making better deals: learning from public/private partnerships for major league sports facilities
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.