Opponents to Atlanta's cop city project are running a referendum campaign
which seeks
to cancel it entirely.
The city government, which seems to be motivated by something we can
only guess at, tried several times to sabotage the petition drive.
Surely the would-be contractors see an opportunity to profit, but I
doubt that the profit would be big enough to motivate such stiff
insistence from the city government. I have a hunch that something
nastier is at work, something more deeply related to right-wing
politics.
I doubt that the contractors who would build it have enough money to
gain that they would find it worth while to put a lot of money into
stiffening politicians' support for the project.