Whose street?

 LaSalle Street as it runs into what is now called Champions Square.



Six months later it still isn't officially Tom's street even if he does treat it that way.

Guess what?  There is still no contract between the LSED and the City for the use of the 1400 block of LaSalle.  I just confirmed that through a public records request this week.

I wanted to wait until the first Saints first home game to find out if they were actually going to resolve the issue before 10's of thousands of people poured across the property so I could get a clear picture of how Thornton thinks the 1400 block of LaSalle is "overvalued".  

I, myself, slogged across that public street with thousands of other people that day we got our ass kicked by the Patriots.

Clearly, this street is not "public".  Not even close.  Barriers on both ends with police checking bags....it ain't public.  It is now a permanent part of the Champions Square footprint.

As usual, there's a bunch more to that AZ post including a fun Sewerage and Water Board tie in so go read that. But I'd just like to add that the bag check is even more aggressive this year than it has been in the past.  Used to be they'd let you walk in with your cocktail so you could finish it before you went into the Dome and had to subsist on $9 shitty Dixies for the rest of the day. When we got to the checkpoint last week, they made us stop and throw away our Diet Cokes before passing into the Benson Concession Exclusivity Zone.

This week, you may have noticed several prominent Republican blowhards have taken to being very mad online at Tom Benson's state subsidies.  Before they either get too distracted by the next dumb thing or someone points out that they're actually the party of giving state assets away to their very rich friends like Tom and they drop the subject altogether, maybe we could get them to ask for our street back.