T-Mobile Park
Retractable-roof ballpark built on a public-vs-corporate money fight over who paid for it.
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About this audio guide
This guide to T-Mobile Park in Seattle begins in 2018, as crews stripped an old sponsor's name off the roof, then rewinds to 1995, when King County voters narrowly rejected a sales tax to fund a new stadium after the ageing Kingdome began shedding ceiling tiles. You'll hear how the state legislature responded by patching together taxes nobody got to vote on, and how corporate naming rights only arrived once the public money was already committed. It's a guide about who actually decides who pays for a ballpark.
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