Better to ask "Why?"
So, let's ask why.
Answer: Politics and laws.
It's not the private sports complex that's the problem. It wasn't imposed on the city. Nobody showed up with forged signatures that SCOTUS said were valid. It was voted on by the people that the citizens elected. They may have been corrupt. But what was done about their corruption, if so?
The additional amount demanded? Turn them down and let the city officials take the heat for their foolishness. Seemed like a good bit of politics, probably. But if the elected officials can't be grown ups and be clear-eyed about likely prospects for the future, they need to be tossed and lesser fools elected.
Or the politicians can accept the demand for the additional amount and comply with it. Then they can take the heat for their idiocy. But it's hard to blame the non-idiots involved when the idiots are front and center and drooling. Unless there's some reason for not blaming the guilty. Diminished capacity? Some other factor that shields them from actual blame?
Then there's the business with contracts. Some really can't be broken easily and quickly. Others can be. When you're forced to make a choice because of a sudden problem--even if it was predictable months and months in advance (we have to accept that the results of foolish actions are still results to be dealt with)--you make the choice from those available. You don't whine and complain that things aren't set up right, that you don't like the choices. You make them. And, as opportunity arises, you set up the choices differently.
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