Texas voters willingly approve $62.8 million high school football stadium

A high school football stadium was built in Allen, Texas, in 2012. It cost taxpayers $60 million. 

Eighteen months later, the $60 million high school football stadium was shut down indefinitely. Cracks in the concrete made it a safety hazard. 

That was 2014. Now it's 2016, and voters from a town 10 minutes up the road just decided to finance a stadium of their own. 

Again, for high school football. This time, for $62.8 million. 

Welcome to McKinney, Texas. 

McKinney voters this weekend passed a $220 million school bond proposal that includes $62.8 million allocated to build a 12,000-seat football stadium ("and events center"!) for the school district's three high schools. The bond proposal passed, according to The Dallas Morning News. 

“We’re visionaries, and we believe we have a vision for McKinney ISD that will propel us forward for a long time," Superintendent Rick McDaniel told the paper. 

The McKinney Independent School District has 29 schools, according to its official site. As a comparison point, the stadium's $62.8 million price tag would provide each with a windfall of more than $2.1 million if spread evenly among them. 

Mike Giles, who lead a group opposing the project, called the new stadium an "embarrassment," per the Morning News. 

The McKinney stadium would be the most expensive high school football stadium in America -- even more than Eagle Stadium in nearby Allen, according to Sports Illustrated. 

That is, of course, the $60 million high school football stadium that was built in 2012 and forced to close for renovations in 2014. 

It re-opened in 2015. 

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