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Seeing as though nearly 1,700 jobs per year would have to be created for 50,000 jobs to be created over 30 years, those job projections are likely kind of high as for that many jobs to be created each year in one county, most years (if not every year) would have to be a boom year.
On the other hand, seeing as though Cobb County has grown by over 400,000 residents in the past 30 years or so (...Cobb County's population grew from 297,718 residents in 1980 to 707,442 residents in 2012), the population growth projections of 28,000 new residents could potentially be substantially low, particularly IF the economy performs mostly or generally well over the next 30 years (save for routine and cyclical downturns) and IF the stadium turns out to be a blockbuster real estate deal for Cobb County's business and real estate interests.
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Originally Posted by arjay57
Assuming they do it right that area could explode.
I agree.
The intense desire of Cobb County business and real estate interests to spark an explosion of economic growth and real estate development is the reason why Cobb County acquired the Braves.
At its heart, all that this deal is really is one huge real estate development scheme.
Cobb County is betting that their huge gamble with taxpayer dollars will pay off over the long-term, and with Cobb County's logistical assets there is a good chance that they will be right.
Though, when officials gamble with over $300 million of public money in a very-secretive process, taxpayers have every right to be concerned.
Let's just hope this project does not turn out like the Marlins Stadium project (0 private development at this point) or The Banks project in Cincinnati.
At its heart, all that this deal is really is one huge real estate development scheme.
Cobb County is betting that their huge gamble with taxpayer dollars will pay off over the long-term, and with Cobb County's logistical assets there is a good chance that they will be right.
Though, when officials gamble with over $300 million of public money in a very-secretive process, taxpayers have every right to be concerned.
Sounds like pre-Great Recession thinking, and we all know how that ended.
Cobb countians are not an alien species just because they live across the river. They are thinking, feeling human beings who desire opera, ballet and major league baseball just like the rest of us.
Before we start condemning them maybe we ought to look at our own prejudices and biases. If people in the city of Atlanta start freezing Cobb out, then who's guilty of the lack of regionalism?
Cobb countians are not an alien species just because they live across the river. They are thinking, feeling human beings who desire opera, ballet and major league baseball just like the rest of us.
Before we start condemning them maybe we ought to look at our own prejudices and biases. If people in the city of Atlanta start freezing Cobb out, then who's guilty of the lack of regionalism?
I really have no reason to ever visit Cobb. Its not a freeze out for me.
Oh, okay. Thanks. I figured it was another one of those newfangled phrases that always baffle me!
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