In fact failure may be preferred since it begs for the construction of more failures. The projects are often horrendously dysfunctional. The Metrodome was quickly recognized as one of the three worst venues in Major League Baseball. It had little to do with football either, single-handedly turning the U of Minnesota program into the worst in the country. Often the smaller and more conservative suburbs will not tolerate such projects.
Most suburbs lack the slush fund capacity to erect a stadium project.
Usually when a stadium project is built in a suburb, the scam is set up at the county level. Suburbs fear the social consequences of housing projects. Suburbs that sell out to instant slum developers often go downhill. The ones that resist selling out are under constant pressure from powerful political machines in the core cities, eager to export their social problems while at the same time profiting from new construction of instant blight. Projects are often subsidized primarily by people who stand to lose in the bargain.