Public Money for Retail
February 3rd, 2005 | Published in Broadcast, Paper Trail
Dion Lefler of the Wichita Eagle, along with KWCH-12 Eyewitness News, found that while Wichita paid $7 million to lure outdoors retailer Gander Mountain to a downtown development project, “the vast majority of cities and counties that have a Gander Mountain store didn’t pay any public money to get one. The investigation found four other local governments that paid subsidies to get Gander Mountain. In three of those communities, the estimated value of the incentives was $500,000 or less.”