County and city leaders appear poised to spend $2.5 million in taxpayer money to lure a Topgolf outlet to the Port City, but other cities have gotten the entertainment venue without spending a dime.
to lure a Topgolf outlet to the Port City, but other cities have gotten the entertainment venue without spending a dime.
“That’s the question that needs to be asked: Will this really bring in new additional jobs?” he said. , has asked the city and county governments to split the $2.5 million cost. The Mobile County Commission is set to vote on Monday, and it is on the Mobile City Council agenda for Tuesday.“My understanding is yes,” she said after a commission work session Thursday. “And it’s probably relative, you know, with the size of the community it’s going to, how much is involved in the incentive package.”Not every city has offered incentives, though.
What’s more, Bartik said, it is not clear how much of an economic and jobs impact Topgolf actually will have. He said it may marginally boost tourism, but he added most of the customers likely will be local residents, which means folks will go to Topgolf instead of other area businesses. The same is true for the jobs, he says. An employee there likely would have been working somewhere else.
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