Letter: Make sure stadium deal doesn’t stick us with bill
It appears that the plan to construct a new stadium is finally in the works (“Gov. Josh Green simplifying Aloha Stadium P3 plan,” Star-Advertiser, March 7). The initial plan with the formation of the public private partnership (PPP) was to have the private partner build and maintain the new stadium at relatively little cost to our taxpaying citizens in exchange for the lucrative rights to develop the housing and commercial retail businesses.
After reading the article in the Star-Advertiser, I’m not sure if that will come to fruition. We taxpayers may end up footing the bill, letting the developers reap the profits. Remember the rail and the urbanization of Kakaako. I hope the new stadium doesn’t become a hat trick in which certain politicians line their pockets at the cost to taxpaying citizens.
Clifford Toyama
Moanalua
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