J.C. Bradbury

That includes the West Side, Crossroads, and Union Hill neighborhoods.

But Kennesaw State University economist J.C. Bradbury says decades of research suggests these projects never pay for themselves.

Bradbury says a city's natural growth requires spending to go up over the years as well.

So you're actually going to start skinning off some of that extra revenue that was going to be funding other things like police and roads out of there as well.

The economics don't make sense.

There was an, a new, uh, uh, uh, analysis of all these studies, and a lot of times there are a few people, you've, you've heard them, maybe you've spoken with them, J.C. Bradbury out of Georgia or, uh, Jeffrey Profiter out of, uh, Colorado, who, who do the rounds and talk about this.

And of course, they've done meta-analysis.

They've looked at hundreds of studies, and a lot of times on social media, I'll get somebody who's like, "Well, does anyone else say this?" Well, it's not just them saying it.

And just the general idea of a stadium paying for itself continues to be stupid.

We've seen that highlighted by a couple of economists who specialize in stadium issues on social media.

It's It's just dumb, Jacob.

The whole thing.