Wife gets a little upset whenever we visit relatives on the West Coast. First place I head to (before Trader Joes) is the local 7 Eleven to buy some Lotto Tickets 🙂

For $250M, Wikipedia says he new Husky Stadium will seat 70,138.

But I don’t interpret their financing plan as publicly funded from city taxes. The website seems pretty clear that the $200M debt is paid through increased stadium revenues. As I interpret it, the Husky Stadium stakeholders raised $50M in donations and sharpened their pencils to figured out what it would take for the remaining $200M to be financed from stadium revenues. Those season ticket prices are pretty steep though, and public financing may be the only way for a new Aloha Stadium. And then the taxpayers of Hawaii or Honolulu are the real stakeholders. As such, I bet they would like to see the UH football games live on free television along with having affordable and comfortable seating at the stadium. UH should begin a dialogue the folks being asked to pick up the check. http://www.huskystadium.com/renovation-information/project-overview/financial-plan

The Huskie Stadium will seat 70,000+

But while individual contributions amounted to $50mil, the rest ($200M) was raised by sale of municipal bonds. I suppose you could argue that the $200M is self-financing in that the bonds and interest is paid by citizens paying the city taxes.

Without pads…..on Day 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4k642Q0wU

With pads…..on Day 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgAnuXOUk5s