WBHM Politics: A Downtown Birmingham Stadium
College football is over for the season and the NFL is in the final weeks of theirs. Of course, the conversation around football never really stops in Alabama, but the talk right now in Birmingham is not of the game per se. Rather it’s about a venue. Last week the Jefferson County Commission agreed to set aside money toward a stadium at the BJCC downtown. It’s a significant step for a project that’s been discussed for years. But there are lots of players in getting this off the ground, and not everyone seems to be on the same page. Is it profitable? And what about Legion Field?
We talk about the project with Birmingham City Councilman Darrell O’Quinn, University of Alabama economist Amanda Ross and Birmingham Business Journal editor Ty West.
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