Heartland Park at Topeka was getting charged 28,000 a month in property taxes. Hard to blame that one on NHRA. The county made them sell the property for tax reasons. Then the county went in and reevaluated the property taxes after the track owners pulled out and the value of the property went down 2.3 million dollars! On top of that consider the revenue stream that Topeka lost every year from loosing the NHRA National event and some of the other big venues like the country music festival that had about 300,000 people attend. It is utterly amazing how blind the politicians were down there. You just can’t fix stupid.
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