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Title: Sports and Real Estate Development As Tools for Changing Patterns of Regional Economic Activity: Managing the Effects of Teams and Venues on Local Communities

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: While the ways in which fans interact and consume sports has evolved in response to new and broadcast media, the most profound change for cities from sports is its linkage to real estate development. This emerging dimension to the ability of sports to redistribute regional economic activity creates critical public policy, business, and urban planning outcomes and potential. This dissertation identifies the ways in which the sports business has changed and illustrates the ways in which these effects can be channeled to benefit cities. For desired outcomes to occur, however, management and administrative systems have to be created that permit cities to realize the possible advantages. It is also possible that the ways in which sports projects are explained and presented to voters also needs to be changed. These understandings are vital because the positive outcomes for cities from sports and real estate development cannot occur without new decision-making presentations and management systems. This dissertation contributes to a greater understanding of these new requirements and the relationship between sports and real estate development (and its effects on cities) through three separate studies centered on the issues of decision-making, urban planning, and economic and neighborhood development. The research is fashioned to examine processes, designs, and approaches that increase the probability of gains for both teams and the public sector in their development partnerships. The research efforts are interconnected in that they contribute to and expand upon an innovative, developing thread of scholarship in the spatial effects of sports for local economies. Each study covers an important segment of the sports and urban development process that frames this new approach to sport management. The studies focus on (a) voter preferences and reactions to public subsidies for sports facility construction, (b) planned and unforeseen outcomes of a master planned neighborhood anchored by a new ballpark, and (c) the formation of the needed organizational structures to ensure outcomes from a linkage of sports to real estate development can be facilitated to produce desired local effects.

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Authors: Cantor, Michael, B

Institution: University of Michigan

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (Kinesiology)

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Pages: 131

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization

Countries: United States