Feels very dangerous.
Pass the shiny new parks piece at a $56 million/$25 million split with the Jags, as White suggests, and then trust that Council is going to come back and pass a less glamorous $94 million/$25 million split with the Jags on affordable housing, homelessness, and boosting up the East Side at a later date with many other economic priorities.
Even with the Jags committing $100 million in the CBA to the Eastside, the dollars aren’t front loaded, and the impact of $3.3 million over 30 years is going to be massively diminished if the city isn’t willing to make that initial upfront investment to kickstart the Eastside.
Council and Salem need to have a backbone (or simply listen to the public, who support the CBA as is) and vote this thing up or down with the stadium, even if it takes a little extra time.