Hey, remember that $275-400 million arena plan that was announced for Virginia Beach last month with much fanfare, then promptly disappeared off the radar? A new poll shows that local residents don’t like the idea, opposing it by a 45-38% margin — and like it even less when the tax-kickback financing model is explained to them, with opposition rising to 58-32%.
Virginia Beach economic development director Warren Harris optimistically responded, “It just says to me that we have to put people in a position that they are informed about the project, and then see what the response would be.” Except that in this poll, the more informed residents are, the more they dislike it. Unless he meant a different meaning of “informed.”