# Cities building sports stadiums?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-building-sports-stadiums/749406>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 18, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-building-sports-stadiums/749406 "2016-03-18T16:35:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-building-sports-stadiums/749406/61 "2016-03-22T00:46:19Z")

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> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> Salt Lake City has one of the more recent new big-city libraries, and the city issued $100M in bonds to pay for it. It is definitely taxpayer funded. I was involved in building a new library in my medium-sized city, and it too was funded by the city issuing bonds.

Sure. _Free public_ libraries are obviously a valuable service and amenity for a city’s people. It is entirely appropriate that they be city-funded.

> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> Denver has a publicly built performing arts complex (including opera house) right downtown.

Also a good thing to have. Run by a city agency of some kind, right? Which charges some form of rent to performances that contract the use of it?

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