[THEFERMANATOR]

The city of TAMPA is dumping HUGE amounts of money into the channelside district of Tampa. This is the only reason I can see why they are pushing so hard for it to come into Tampa. The other thing is that Channelside is pretty much in the center of Tampa a few miles from the business district, but it is MILES away from most any sizeable housing places with the exception of the upscale homes where they would take the cars anyways. That whole area of Tampa used to be the ship yards, but the Tampa city council has decided to build it up into a big tourist area at the cost of millions of dollars a year of tax dollars that could be paying teachers, fireman, and police salaries rather than laying them off.