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COLORADO SPRINGS — A downtown Sky Sox baseball stadium would be an economic grand slam for Colorado Springs, local economists say in a report scheduled for release this month.
A downtown baseball stadium would put about $332,000 a year in sales tax revenue into the city’s coffers; create 224 jobs; increase tourism; and bump up downtown retail sales by 16 percent on game days and 5 percent overall per year, says a report by Summit Economics, a Colorado Springs research firm.
Mayor Steve Bach hired the firm to from its eastside location, at Tutt Boulevard and Barnes Road, to downtown would be worth the risk — an estimated $60 million venture.
Summit Economics believes it is.
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