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in the city remains murky. The publicly-funded Edward Jones Dome anticipates
needing an extra $40 million to cover maintenance over the next 15 years, the
St. Louis Post -Dispatch (bit.ly/1pGZkMd) reported Wednesday. The St. Louis
Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, which owns the downtown dome,
expects to exhaust its $16 million in savings in six years. The dome receives a
total of $24 million annually from the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and
the state of Missouri for maintenance and to pay off construction debt , but
those payments are scheduled to cease over the next decade. And the stadiums
future remains in limbo as lease negotiations between St. Louis Rams owner Stan
Kroenke and the stadium authority drag on. The Rams can break their 30-year
lease after the upcoming season, which would be a decade early. Brian McMurtry,
the authoritys executive director, is asking the three governments to not only
continue providing at least $4 million for annual upkeep payments but to also
consider sending the dome an additional $40 million in cash, or selling $40
million in new bonds. Hes also suggested putting several stadium-related items
on the citys bond issue list for a public vote as early as this November. "Im
going to tell you, they dont know how theyre going to do it," he said. "But they
want to know what its going to take." Dome maintenance is almost entirely
dependent on public dollars -- unlike Busch Stadium, a private ballpark funded
largely by the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Scottrade Center, which is
maintained by the owners of the St. Louis Blues and was built with $135 million
from local companies. To help entice the Rams to stay, the St. Louis Convention
& Visitors Commission, which manages the dome, in 2012 offered a $124
million improvement plan that included a bigger scoreboard and better club
seating, with the Rams paying slightly more half those costs. The team countered
with a far more ambitious proposal that called for a new roof with a sliding
panel and a bevy of improvements that would keep the city convention centre in
the dome closed for three years. The team didnt put a price tag on its request,
but city officials estimated the upgrades would cost $700 million. "We cant come
up with a long-term solution until we know what the relationship is going to be
with the Rams," said Jim Shrewsbury, chairman of the stadium authoritys board.
The stadium authority sold bonds in 1991 to build the $300 million dome, which
opened in 1995. The sponsors agreed to a 30-year payment plan. The state would
send the stadium authority $10 million a year toward debt repayment, plus $2
million for upkeep. The city and county each would pay half of that. University
of Chicago economist Allen Sanderson said the conundrum facing St. Louis civic
leaders is not uncommon when it comes to paying for aging public sports arenas.
"Estimates of revenues tend to be overstated and costs played down, or at least
pushed off to the future," he said. "Youve got this combination, on the city
side, of public officials worried about the near future, not the long term, and
these sports franchises that have an enormous amount of market power. And thats
a bad combination for taxpayers."
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