Virginia Public Radio: A proposed sports arena in northern Virginia will be a big topic of debate for the upcoming session
One of the issues lawmakers will be debating when they gavel into session next week is the creation of a new authority that would own a northern Virginia sports arena…
City officials say they will include performance measures. But Greg LeRoy at Good Jobs First says those performance measures should include some kind of accountability if the economic development projections about job creation fail to materialize.
“We could build in accountability because we could say if you said 30,000 and you created 20,000, we’re going to give you a one-third haircut because you fell one-third short on the job creation,” LeRoy says. “That would be entirely feasible and doable and it wouldn’t impede the deal.”
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