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Michael Johnston: “National Women's Soccer league, that's a $2.2 billion…”

Featuring: Michael Johnston, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Denver | Colorado

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Denver Mayor Michael Johnston Addresses City's Financial Challenges and Strategic Plans

Published | Video Starts at 11:10

Those are capital dollars for capital investments and they drive long term revenue that do come to the general fund. And so what you'll see here in this investment is that importantly, if you look at National Women's Soccer league, that's a $2.2 billion investment. It's a 1,100 jobs. It's half a billion dollars of sales tax revenue. That's critically important. If you look at National Western center, this is one that is now at this point more than $3 billion of GDP driven by that. (11:10–11:14)

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