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Michael Crain: “For every dollar spent in tourism, it's $5 to the local…”

Featuring: Michael Crain, Fort Worth City Council, District 3 | Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 20:59

But we put the convention center expansion back on it. We've needed it for a long period of time. We have. I don't know the numbers, but it's something like For every dollar spent in tourism, it's $5 to the local economy. It might be more than that, but that's what we have to do as a city. We're looking at again trying to relieve, you know, that to me that leads back to property tax relief. (20:59–21:03)

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