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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
No, its called which company bought advertising rights. Quicken Loans had nothing to do with construction.
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Apparently the tax payers paid for the original construction. Quicken's owner paid for some upgrades and maintenance later.
Wikipedia tells a slightly unclear story: apparently this site was a farmers market going back to the origin of the city, and voters defeated a measure to build a stadium. But then some developers bought and cleared the site and the voters voted in a sin tax on booze to pay to build a new stadium complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Loans_Arena