. >> reporter: michael gonnelli is the mayor of secaucus, the town millions will tax relief through to> ply main concern is traffic, how it looks, we're the only municipality in the district that looks at it. >> reporter: in 2004, the new jersey sports and exposition authority, which controls the land on which american dream sits, agreed to make payments to the surrounding towns to ease the inevitable rising costs. and with money you can hire more law enforcement officers, traffic controllers -- >> that's the number-one problem. >> reporter: does the potential boost to the economy outweigh the concerns about traffic and that it may be an eyesore? >> it sort of does because the economy will be boosted greatly. but we still have to really address each item, and traffic, the eyesore is something i don't know how we can address that. the boost in the economy is great. but you still are to address all three. >> reporter: two sections of american dream opened on october 25th. and curious crowds have started to visit. according to mayor gonnelli, his town has yet to receive any money to help