{"id":18626,"date":"2019-01-14T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/01\/14\/live-from-los-angeles-can-sports-make-a-city\/"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:05:35","slug":"live-from-los-angeles-can-sports-make-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/live-from-los-angeles-can-sports-make-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Live From Los Angeles: Can Sports Make A City?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Los Angeles has a busy couple of years coming up. The city is slated to host the Olympics in 2028, potentially will hold some of the World Cup in 2026 and a second National Football League team now calls the city its home \u2014 the Chargers, formerly of San Diego.<\/p>\n

Officials often claim sports are boons for the local economy, due to the influx of tourists and infrastructure improvements. But is that actually true?<\/p>\n

From The New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But there is strikingly little evidence that such events increase tourism or draw new investment. Spending lavishly on a short-lived event is, economically speaking, a dubious long-term strategy. Stadiums, which cost a lot and produce minimal economic benefits, are a particularly lousy line of business. (This is why they are usually built by taxpayers rather than by corporations.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, Los Angeles has a history of making these events worth it. In 1984, the city avoided building new stadiums for the Olympics. And Curbed Los Angeles<\/em><\/a> reports that those Games actually helped solve one thing that plagues Angelenos \u2014 traffic.<\/p>\n

We’re weighing the costs and benefits of major sporting events, in a special edition of 1A,<\/em> live from KPCC.<\/p>\n

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Source:: https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2019-01-14\/live-from-los-angeles-can-sports-make-a-city?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Los Angeles has a busy couple of years coming up. The city is slated to host the Olympics in 2028, potentially will hold some of the World Cup in 2026 and a second National Football League team now calls the city its home \u2014 the Chargers, formerly of San Diego.<\/p>\n

Officials often claim sports are boons for the local economy, due to the influx of tourists and infrastructure improvements. But is that actually true?<\/p>\n

From The New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But there is strikingly little evidence that such events increase tourism or draw new investment. Spending lavishly on a short-lived event is, economically speaking, a dubious long-term strategy. Stadiums, which cost a lot and produce minimal economic benefits, are a particularly lousy line of business. (This is why they are usually built by taxpayers rather than by corporations.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, Los Angeles has a history of making these events worth it. In 1984, the city avoided building new stadiums for the Olympics. And Curbed Los Angeles<\/em><\/a> reports that those Games actually helped solve one thing that plagues Angelenos \u2014 traffic.<\/p>\n

We’re weighing the costs and benefits of major sporting events, in a special edition of 1A,<\/em> live from KPCC.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}