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This is what the new Nassau Coliseum would look like if voters in Nassau County to vote "yes" Monday to a proposed referendum that would make a new $ 350 million development for a new stadium and $ 50 million for a baseball stadium in the league minor at Mitchel Field near.

The delivery, you can not see inside the arena, but I imagine there is plenty of room to move in competitions without leaking roof or broken chairs until they have seen the day of Trottier, Nystrom, Gillies, Smith and Potvin.

August 1 is the end of the rope New York Islanders owner Charles Wang has stuck to try to get a new stadium built. Wang says she lost $ 230 million in 11 years which is owned by the islanders and the continuing loss has tried numerous times to find a way to build a new home.

Most "no" on Monday whether Wang would mean looking elsewhere - Queens, Brooklyn or out of New York - or the possibility that he has lost money and put the team up for sale.

The more recent idea, the Lighthouse Project, was presented a grand plan condominiums, restaurants, shops and hotels are approved - after scaling down - through all levels of politics in Nassau County, but was stalled by a problem with the Town of Hempstead zoning.

In May, Wang and Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano unveiled the latest plan for job creation with an emphasis on creating revenue for the county budget problems that the unemployment rate was 6.9 the last percent.

There have been plenty of debate on both sides. The side that is anti-taxpayer paying the stadiums and the side to see what the actual loss of the islanders would mean for the community.

The New York Post Larry Brooks is not a fan of taxpayers paying the stadiums for billionaires, and believes that a "no" tomorrow will not have to kill the idea of ​​the islanders to stay in New York:

Wang was willing to spend a huge amount of their own money, not just the construction of Faro, but to campaign for him. It is, however, willing to spend $ 350 million of his own money to build a new stadium.

It does not explain why. He just wants the county to build for him.

If you think paying a new arena itself is the only way to keep the Islanders here, and if you think it is a good investment, then by all means vote that way in the referendum.

As long as you are aware that there are almost certainly going to be other options to keep the islanders they belong in New York, if the referendum goes down, though not necessarily in Nassau County.

George Vecsey of the New York Times asked in these difficult economic times, if a stadium project is worth it when there are cuts in many other places:

Islanders molder, as a suburban home whose owners can not afford the maintenance. Wang tried to link the residual affection for a vanished team with a great Lighthouse $ 3.8 billion stadium project for a town center with housing and transportation. Now he just wants to pass a bond Nassau to build a new stadium, and he agrees to pay the cost of upgrades. Wise heads tell a performance bond.

Normally, I am on the side of public projects. I am in favor of high-speed rail and infrastructure repair, but not so sure about a field hockey team.

This proposal reminds me of how New York lobbied to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games based on the construction of a multi-purpose stadium on the West Side of Manhattan. The Olympic authorities rejected with good reason. All the evidence tells me that the big box of arenas and stadiums are often a proposition mom and dad for employment and create dead spaces, like the Nassau Coliseum.

According to Mangano and Wang plan submitted in May, the 400 million dollars was requested to be returned to taxpayers through revenue sharing over a lease for 30 years. According to an independent economic development, $ 1.2 billion in gross revenue generated during the term. There will be 350 million dollars going to the construction costs and $ 433-million to pay the debt, leaving $ 403 million back to taxpayers. Approximately 1.5 percent of every dollar generated will go back to Nassau County residents.

Nick Giglia Let There Be Lighthouse weighs everything in balance and most importantly, just what the cost would be:

This referendum should not be considered against a development proposal, now dead, but must be weighed against the cost of doing nothing.

Independent reviews have been reduced by the scare tactics and introduced us to a stark choice. For example, the Office of Legislative Budget Review pegs the cost of a new space in a maximum of $ 13.80 per family per year. .....http://kannaangel.blogspot.com

The cost of doing nothing and lose the Islanders and Nassau Coliseum? $ 16 per family per year, with $ 243 million and 2. 660 jobs projected to disappear from the Nassau County economy the movement of equipment and the sand is closed. When presented with that option, how can you choose anything about anything?

The Islanders and the county took a break to be able to schedule the vote Monday in the middle of summer with voters in holiday mode and not so close involvement pregnant than it would if it had been planned for election day in November.

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