Putting a D-League team for the Atlanta Hawks in College Park won’t come cheap.
According to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Matt Kempner, College Park, GA expects to pay between $20 and $40 million to build an arena for the Atlanta Hawks’ recently announced D-League affiliate. The source of this funding had been a subject of speculation recently, but today some more concrete details emerged.
Public funding for sports arenas has become an increasingly prevalent practice in recent years, and this announcement seems to follow such national trends. The cost of this arena is much smaller than many other recently-announced projects, but is still a lot of money for a city the size of College Park.