I remember several years ago there was a study done about that. Using Seattles schedule, Portland would only have lost 10 games due to rainouts. No link. I just recall that
The Indian Cassino on the river is an idea I was screaming about several years ago when one offered to fund a stadium in return for a downtown location. People of Portland.....The Indian cassicos would create jobs period. Jobs at the cassino, jobs at the ball park they would fund and jobs at new local business around said cassino and ball park. That in return would have people spending more money and creating more jobs at current local buisinesses. Now let's talk about tourism. Nothing better to help promite tourism than Nationally televised games on ESPN showing the picturesque beauty of Portland and the rest of Oregon. I show pictures of the great NW to people here in Houston, and almost to a person they ask "why would you ever leave such a beautiful place?" Portland needs jobs and revenue for schools, city and state projects, etc. This would help A LOT in doing that. If the city had real insight they would allow the Indians to also build 1 or as many as they wanted, hotels in the area of the cassino. Let the Indians have the revenue from that as well, but the hotels would also help attract things like All Star games and such
Rain wouldn't be an issue for a team in the area. It's not for the one in Seattle. They were just stupid enough to put on the roof.
Nothing is more ruinous to an American community than an Indian casino. Ignore the illegality and immorality of it for a moment and you're left with an eyesore that offers a few minimum wage jobs unavailable to non-Indians and a magnet that attracts only addicts and losers. They prey primarily on the elderly and poor, resulting in a heavier demand on community-wide public assistance programs and an increase in homeless population and crime in general. They are not a tourist attraction. They are the saddest, most boring venues on earth and nobody in their right mind would spend a minute of their vacation time in one. Maybe you are confusing them with real casinos, which are at least entertaining and non-racist in their operation.
Let's not make this a social issue, a casino is a casino and will bring in jobs and money for the city. In fact, many Native American casinos bring in more bank than any of the establishments in Vegas.
There's been talk of transforming the old Greyhound dog track in Wood Village into a casino for years and I doubt it will ever happen. It's even less likely they'd do one downtown.
I have often wondered why they don't legalize gambling and prostitution in certain counties like in Nevada. You could turn a sleepy dumpy beach town into a huge tourist attracvtion that would generate millions for the Oregon economy through tourism
