re: McKinney TX. building the most expensive High School stadium. 70 million dollars

This is literally being built 5 minutes from my house. Its gonna be nice .

I laugh because i live in Allen which borders McKinney and they took shite because they built a 63 million dollar stadium. My buddy in McKinney use to rag all the Allen people for it and now he brags about this new place(which is 2 miles from the Allen stadium FYI).


The Allen stadium took shite but is packed every Friday night, has an underground golf, gymnastics, and weight room facility, and gets a ton of use. Last i heard they were years ahead of having it paid off. They have Chick Fila, Dickeys, and a ton of concessions and spirit stores inside the stadium and make a ton on game days.


This is a pic i took from opening night last year at Allen when they hosted Hoover, Alabama.

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Well, it is going to be used a lot. But as I said, I think a lot of its value is intangible or indirect. The stadium and the nice schools and all of these things are reasons why this is one of the best towns in America to live in with one of the best educational systems to live in. It'll all ties together IMO.

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I get that but I think you could be one that would accomplish this for much less.

The weight room, arts funding(often is tied to these deals), and everything surrounding the stadiums wouldn't be built without football pissing match motivating people. So that is good.

Again at the end of the day, it was up to the taxpayers.

Academics don't suffer as a result of this. Schools get a ton of bond money as well. This is what public education should be. Independent communities being able to centralize their tax money on things they can tangibly see. This is not a rich or poor thing. I coach at a title 1 school north of Fort Worth that was built 5 years ago for 140M. We are 75% minority and 65% economically disadvantaged. This place has every bell and whistle and advantage you could be possibly want for a kid

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Just looked it up. Total property tax is 2.48 per $100 of value. And there is a 8.25% sales tax (includes state and local).

On a $500,000 home, it's $12,400 per year. However, browsing through their real estate market, you get more bang for your buck in McKinney than in Baton Rouge. A $500,000 home along the Jefferson corridor in BR is probably around $425,000 in McKinney.

So, it's a cheaper sales tax but a higher property tax with no income tax. I imagine it's close to a wash once you figure out the effective rate - except they have small colleges for HS and we have Woodlawn.

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Someone should sticky this breakdown in the OP.

I just read the article...what a bitch move by the writer

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In unrelated news, a study released earlier this month found that there are 294,650 people living in poverty in Dallas — nearly twice the population of McKinney.

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This is idiotic. We deserve the bad shite that's coming our way.


On the plus side, it looks easily defensible. I'm sure some baws will be posted up there shooting looters in a few years.
If it's grass, it could make a good survival garden as well for a bunch of lucky folks.

McKinney ISD. Which shel would know better than If the high schools are further broken down into smaller districts.

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Priorities in this country are so out of whack it's ridiculous.

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So you're saying they should have voted to have themselves pay more taxes for the poor or something? Or that we should tax people to a point where they wouldn't even entertain something like this?

They voted to pay for it. So I don't get the issue.

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but it doenst belong to just your high schoo

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This one doesn't just belong to one school either. It belongs to McKinney ISD, which currently has 3 high schools but with the way the area is growing, will have another soon.