City’s final OK vote cements commitment to the project after weeks of debate about use of public money but fate with the NFL is far from conclusive
A St Louis city board gave final approval Friday to a $1bn financing package for a modern football stadium intended to convince the St Louis Rams to stay in town.
The decision,which includes a $150m commitment from the city, is the latest saga in a debate over using public money to subsidize sports stadiums. At a public assembly convened by the NFL in October, and a group of activists disrupted the breezy affair,arguing that a modern stadium is the last thing St Louis should spend money on. The city recently overtook Detroit as the murder capital of the US, with the highest murder total per capita in the nation.
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Source: theguardian.com