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18 Sports Law. J. 259 (2011)
How the Smallest Market in Professional Sports Had the Easiest Financial Journey: The Renovation of Lambeau Field

handle is hein.journals/sportlj18 and id is 261 raw text is: How the Smallest Market in Professional Sports Had the Easiest Financial Journey: The Renovation of Lambeau Field Laurie C. Frey* I. INTRODUCTION ................................... ..... 259 II. OWNERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TEAM AND FINANCING A FACILITY ......................................... 263 A. Ownership. ....................... . .........263 B. Financing ofa Stadium. .................. .....265 III. POLITICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES WHEN FINANCING A STADIUM ...... 267 A. Political Issues .................... .............. 268 B. Lawsuits. ........................... ......269 IV. CASE STUDY OF HISTORIC LAMBEAU FIELD ................. 272 V. HOW THE PACKERS FINANCED LAMBEAU ................... 274 VI. THE ISSUES LAMBEAU FACED. ....................... ..... 277 VII. CONCLUSION ............................................. 279 I. INTRODUCTION Across the country, cities spend millions, and sometimes even billions, of dollars to create the next best sports stadium.' From New Jersey to Ohio to Arizona, the stadiums [are] sold as a key to redevelopment and as the only way to retain sports franchises.' In the past twenty years, the money spent on development of major league stadiums has been staggering. Between 1990 and 2003, cities erected over fifty new stadiums.! Taxpayers paid an estimated $9 billion of the $13.5 billion total of the cost of construction for stadiums that opened * 0 2011 Laurie C. Frey. The author is a third-year law student at Marquette University Law School who will graduate in May 2011. Laurie will earn a Certificate in Sports Law from the National Sports Law Institute. She is a 2008 graduate of Butler University, where she earned her B.A. in Journalism. She currently serves as the Executive Editor of the Marquette Sports Law Review. 1. Ken Belson, Stadium Boom Deepens Municipal Woes, N.Y TIMES, Dec. 25, 2009, at B8. 2. Id 3. Andrew H. Goodman, The Public Financing ofProfessional Sports Stadiums: Policy andPractice, 9 SPORTS LAW. J. 173, 174 (2002). 259

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