Candy and John are correct. Corporate welfare is out of control. Small business is a $100 million project. These structures could easily last 50 years if taken care of. But replacing the plastic every 2 years is expensive to some degree and is not so green. Nothing says you can not buy one of these yourself and pay for it with your own money if you believe in the project.  Did the government have to pay for it? I wonder if it is US made steel? OR did we send our junk cars to China to be remade into hoops with a production plant with no pollution controls. Maybe not as green as you think. We had 6 million acres burn last year. That produced plenty of dead trees to make wooden hoops that rot and do not rust or need to be barged. But where is the money in that. Corporate welfare.