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Originally Posted by emjay
I smell a repeat of:
According to the UK National Audit Office, the total cost of the Millennium Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £789 million, of which £628 million was covered by National Lottery grants and £189 million through sales of tickets etc.
$1,570,452,216 (give and take the odd dollar) for an empty building. Geez.  |
You know, anybody that lives in the area of the Dome knows what it has done for that area. When I moved here it was a wasteland and now it is a huge retail area mixed with not-cheap housing and and transport links. I bet it has brought back way more into the economy through taxes paid from those that own buisness and homes in that area - not to mention the taxes spent in the shops and restaurants there.