Greenberg and Hughes (2011) argued that the cost of constructing and maintaining stadiums to hold major leagues had been increasing within the USA. Therefore, the researchers conducted a study hypothesizing that the citizens paying tax would use a higher amount of money to sustain these requirements in the future. The researchers argued that fifteen billion dollars were used to maintain and construct sporting facilities in the 1990s. In 2003, twenty-one facilities to handle major league events used 16 billion dollars to handle similar requirements. The use of a similar amount was used in the construction of 65 sporting facilities in the previous decade. However, the prevailing state of the economy led to the release of diverse attentions and arguments regarding whether this funding should be generated by the government. These differences were triggered by political and public resistances, limitations of governmental capabilities, and ignorance about the appeal of the construction projects. Therefore, the researchers studied the reasons of the community resistance through assessing the benefits attained by the surrounding people due to the presence of the stadiums. The main assessment was performed in regard to the tax rates perceived from these regions. The study was advanced through comparing the relevance of the sporting facilities in regard to their geologic locations where productivity was high in the urban areas. The study evaluated such stadiums as Camden Yards, Jacobs Field, Coors Field and Staples Center. The Sports Comm evaluation showed the tactical construction of institutionalized-stadiums by the colleges. In other places, the researchers retrieved literature on the city developments based on the sporting activities as exemplified by the Dubai Sports City and Qatar. The analysis was performed extensively by citing examples and retrieving literatures throughout the globe. Eventually, they concluded that the development of sporting facilities introduced local and regional developments especially to the people close to the facility. However, the public might be subjected to further taxation attribute to the cost of these facilities.
The discussion of this article presents reliable and educative information supported by other empirical approaches in order to approve the hypothesis. The consideration of numerous resources to prove the ideas on the development of these facilities and their state across the globe are addressed sufficiently. Empirical research encourages that the sample population should be adequate to reduce errors. In this respect, this paper agrees to this supposition through applying diverse sources to collect secondary information. However, the state of presenting the information cannot be selected as a perfect example. Most empirical researches have a decisive description of the literature evaluated in the analysis. However, this analysis ignores these requirements. Although the assessment of adequate resources is apparent, the evaluation and reliability regarding the number of sources applied are not specific.
The evaluation performed by these researchers is vital in my future research topic. Essentially, the development of such information in the establishment of stadia for sporting activities creates images of other topics. For instance, the construction of cities may take a sporting model as perceived in the Dubai Sporting City. This innovative strategy allows a location to act as a center specializing in sports’ issues. This aspect does not only attract foreign income to the local and regional government, but also encourages funding from within the nation. Therefore, such a development and consistency of literal information from the world are paramount in understanding how other nations invest in the sports and inform about the revenues received from their finances.
Reference
Greenberg, M. & Hughes, S. (2011). Sports Comm: It Takes a Village to Build a Sports Facility. Marquette Sports Law Review, 22(1), 91-184.