Week of December 20, 2007
Wrapping a stadium among gifts on a City of Miami Christmas tree adorned with unrelated but very costly goodies just handed a bonanza to Florida Marlins owners.
Team owners can pocket hundreds of millions once the county, which is driving the deal, finishes negotiating a complex series of stadium agreements that the city joined into last week.
And while county administration is telling commissioners that the ballpark now is to cost $525 million versus $490 million that had been proposed for a downtown stadium, real costs to the public are far higher.
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