Createquity Chimes In

I mentioned it in the comments to the post below, but Ian David Moss at Createquity posted a bit of a response to my post here. He brings up a couple of good points (to quote at length):

No, I think the bigger issue is that Broadway is seen as an amenity that, despite being in New York, belongs to tourists more than it belongs to New Yorkers. Whereas the Yankees have an indisputably local appeal. (They also have broader, free or bundled distribution through television and radio than does Broadway.) They’re also only one team (or two if you count the Mets), whereas Broadway has many theaters and shows, making capture of the local imagination more difficult for the latter. Anyway, what this example tells me is that a sense of belonging and local ownership/pride builds local political clout. Can an economically-focused argument help to build these things? Maybe in some places more effectively than others. It no doubt has to be only one prong of a broader strategy.

That's something I can really get behind. My whole point was the economic argument isn't a magic bullet, in no small part, because I think we win that. There's a cultural aspect, too. For me that's where the necessity argument comes in.

Anyway, Ian's post is great round-up of a bunch of things. Check it out!