Fast forward 10 (ish) years to 2022 the floated value of a new stadium is looking to be between 1.4-1.8B to mirror the other stadiums build in the state in NYC (can't off hand remember which ones are new). The average is about 1.6% paid out of local / state taxes, while it seems (perception) that the state is willing to pay an unprecedented 25-50% of the new stadium from local coffers.
I'm not sure if anyone has looked around, but in the last two years I think the population dropped by 300K in NYS and Upstate (everything East of Rochester) and Western New York (everything Rochester and west) has been dying slowly.
I think Buffalo has seen a mediocre rise back to glory under the "Billion to Buffalo" under Cuomo's governance, but tons of that left the state with Tesla's Riverbend plant and honestly real failure to deliver on its promises. The rest went to our startup and industrial technology companies with sprinkles into our medical institutions (our real meat and po-tats around these parts).
The problem is - we have no money. Taxes are high (without blaming a party, but a culture problem in NYS) and social programs are abused. Billions in the pocket of the wealthy need to be spent and the local pockets need to contribute to their profits vs. being blead for them.
Really hate living in a state that just hates business like we do here, but .. this what you get. Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo will all eventually fail on some level because of the continued regime's need to keep the status going.
Someone really needs to speak truth to power, or its going to crush our country economically as capitalism is more oligarch feeling than Representative Democracy.