Bending the numbers for Benderson Park

How trustworthy are indirect economic benefits?


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When Visit Sarasota reported at the end of 2019 the claim that the Nathan Benderson Park rowing center generated a $34 million dollar economic impact for the county in fiscal 2018, we thought that would be amazing — if true. But our economist instincts, honed by decades of analyzing exaggerated economic impact reports, spurred us to dig deeper.

 

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