Mayor Bibb announced the move Thursday, after months of negotiations failed to deliver an agreement between the city and team owners.
In a Thursday news conference at City Hall, Mayor Justin Bibb announced the owners of the Cleveland Browns intend to move the team to Brook Park.CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Browns intend to leave the city of Cleveland for a new stadium in Brook Park, according to Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb.
“Yes, the Browns and our visitors matter,” he said. “But the well-being of the people who live here will always come first. This was our most important priority, and it is the one we must never compromise.” “With the funding mechanisms we continue to work on, this stadium will not use existing taxpayer-funded streams that would divert resources from other more pressing needs. Instead, the over $2 billion private investment, together with the public investment, will create a major economic development project that will drive the activity necessary to pay the public bond debt service through future project-generated and Browns-generated revenue,” the statement said.
The Haslams have yet to buy the 176-acre plot that’s under consideration there. They have indicated a stadium in Brook Park would be part of a much larger, yet-to-be-built, entertainment district. In describing how the negotiations opened in 2022, Bibb painted a picture of a City Hall that was willing to take the Haslams’ demands seriously.
In both offers – at the current site and at Burke -- Bibb said he tried to balance the Haslams’ needs against those of the broader community. It would be “cost prohibitive and not feasible, especially with no certainty regarding potential timing of closure of the airport,” the statement said.Bibb punted two outstanding questions about the viability of the Brook Park move to City Council: enforcement of the state’s “Art Modell law” and enforcement of an agreement that would bind the “Cleveland Browns” name to whatever professional football team is physically based in Cleveland.
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