With representatives from football teams and sports-related companies from around the world in attendance, such as management agencies, stadium-builders, sponsors and sportswear manufacturers, Soccerex is seen as the place to network and agree deals.
Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the Independent Budget Office, a nonpartisan city agency, said stadium advocates were not reading the report very closely.
Broadcasting rights agencies and host stadiums both like to sell advertising for sporting events.
One, that between them the various agencies responsible for the stadium made a complete Horlicks of planning for its post-Olympics future.
As WSOCTV reported: "The TSA said another 55 other officers will help the Secret Service with screening at Time Warner Cable Arena, the Convention Center and Bank of America stadium". Both agencies are known for detaining suspicious persons without warning, and regularly trampling on Constitutional rights.
Public agency bonds for the stadium would be tax exempt and sell at lower interest rates.
On Wednesday, Crisafulli expressed his "disappointment" with Gov. Rick Scott's Department of Economic Opportunity, which said last month that a new law did not technically require the agency to rank the stadium proposals.
Mayor Buddy Dyer of Orlando said on Friday that members of 94 families with relatives among the dead and wounded have visited a downtown football stadium where civil agencies are proving relief services.
At least 10 other law enforcement agencies were also patrolling the stadium perimeter with a variety of armaments, including the F.B.I., the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms, the New Orleans Police Department, various sheriff's departments and the National Guard.
If you read of 30,000-plus in attendance, as put out by some agencies, consider this: The new stadiums in Benguela, Cabinda and Lubango, built in a hurry by a Shanghai construction company, each can seat 25,000.
But the MetroStars also have an offer from Elizabeth, N.J., and the team is still negotiating with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority for a new soccer stadium at the agency's Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, where its lease expires in 2001.
