This paper explores how franchise owners and politicians justify building stadiums at the
public's expense and analyzes the
merits of these justifications. The focus then turns to the peculiar economic structure of sports, and how it relates to
public stadium subsidies. Lastly, this paper examines other means, both public and private, by which stadium construction can be funded and discusses the relative merits of each of these methods. For the purpose of placing this discussing within a concrete framework, the first section comprises a case study of the Gateway Project in Cleveland, Ohio, which built new homes for Major League Baseball's "Indians" and the National Basketball Association's "Cavaliers".