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Out of the 4 Cities listed I have been to 3 of them :
Kansas City
Omaha
St. Louis
Omaha : I spent close to a month there and it's a nice city but too small for me. Kansas City : Another nice city but became very Suburban rapidly. St. Louis The City and infrastructure reminded me of the Northeast and very Urban.
In regards to the airport. I suspect the comparison was in passenger counts, but I will defer. St. Louis is faring quite well for a medium hub airport, with higher passenger counts than Indy. That isn't your cities fault, you have closer competition than we do. Louisville, Cincy, Dayton, Chicago are all close than other airports to STL and they draw from your far out areas. Indy did build a new airport, and we have a much older one in St. Louis - that is being replaced with and airport that will still be bigger than Indy's. My google search indicates 39 gates in Indy, similar to the new terminal at KCI. The new St. Louis airport will have 62 gates. We can discuss performance when OUR new airport opens (of course, by then the Indy airport will be about 22 years old. Will you like the comparison then?
Regarding sports, I thinking MLB, MLS and Hockey have higher attendance (and revenue) and are in a different league than WNBA (I am not trying to take anything away from the WNBA). Appears as though the 2023 average for the Indianapolis Fever was 4066 per game, the second lowest in the league. I am also seeing the NBA average attendance in Indy was 15,647 per game. If you want to include WNBA then you should also include our XFL, especially with the attendance records we set - the 2023 Battlehawk season averaged 35,104 per game. You do have the Indy 500.
Looking at a google search (this was Newsweek) the highest ranking hospital in Indy was the Indiana University Medical center - as 150th. Barnes was ranked 33rd.
Before we say anything about a place leap frogging others lets first compare things as they are today, and not what we expect them to be in the future, because wile potentially at different rates, things are progressing in many cities.
I am NOT dissing your city, I am just trying to provide some perspective on a few items that I can google and get comparative data collect. It's great to be a booster, but boosting your city doesn't have to mean saying you are better than others. Most of the time, it's an opinion. So, don't get updset if others opinions don't agree with you.
Still, pretty decent numbers - particularly for StL.
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