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ECONOMICS: More soccer subsidies?

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The City of Rochester's $420,000 subsidy to Marina Auto Stadium - formerly Paetec Park - this year, was supposed to be a one-shot deal. Rob Clark, owner and CEO of the Rochester Rhinos, said in the spring that he expects the operation to turn a profit in a year. And now that doesn't seem likely. | "I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that," said City Council member Carolee Conklin in an interview last week. "Once you start a taxpayer subsidy for a private enterprise, you can pretty much count on it being there forever." | Neither Conklin nor Council member Dana Miller would commit to approving an extended subsidy for the soccer stadium, however. | "It depends on what the public good is," Miller says. "Something like the Convention Center, the public good is pretty easy to measure. The value in the long run of having a soccer stadium that the need could have been met by using Frontier Field is tougher. The public benefit is not going to be irreversibly harmed if there's no soccer stadium." | If there wasn't enough money to operate the stadium, it would likely just sit empty, Miller says.

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