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9 Proposed Sports Stadiums

Sports stadiums can make or break a city's economy, so they are especially sought after during times of economic recovery. But stadium plans are also replete with potential problems and controversies, from lack of funding or controversial tax breaks, to cities being required to use eminent domain to seize land, to one city being heartbroken when another "steals" its team, not to mention whether a city will take to the new team in town. Here are eight of the most recent proposals for some of America's potentially biggest, most innovative and most economic development-spurring stadiums to be up for approval, one of which was controversially taken off the table at press time.

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