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If it were truly such a good deal for local business to have Wilfare, they would be willing to invest in a share. Surely, times are rough. Surely, this is an absentee owner situation, not "one of ours" as with the Pohlad baseball subsidization.
There is one particular sentence Kohler uses that stands out for me, "It sounds like they’d prefer to socialize the costs, then spend money at a stadium (or to slap their logo on the stadium) which allows Zygi Wilf to privatize the profits." Why would local business not be attuned to socializing costs and privatizing profits. It's the way of all Crabgrass, indeed if built the field should not be artificial turf, but pure one hundred percent crabgrass. It's the symbolism. David Flaherty would understand Zygi and relate to him as another kindred absentee risk socializing soul.
I have linked to Kohler's work before. From what I have read his is the soundest voice critical of Wilfare, consistently so, intently so. Look around at his last several months of work, including his occasional photo tour along a running route. He documents a window of neighborhood history that way, which to me is valuable now and will be more valuable twenty years from now where change will be apparent from today's efforts by Kohler. Consider bookmarking his website.