Cleveland Browns Lakefront Stadium Renovation Imperial

Cleveland – According to a picture of the plan of Cleveland Browns, renovating the LakeFront stadium in the city center, local managers ask the team to publish more.

“It is time to show the public what is possible on the Seefront,” said Chris Ronayne, manager of Cuyahoga County.

Ronayne said that the leaked picture, which was first published by Cleveland scene, was one of many who showed him the owners of the team, the Haslam Sports Group (HSG).

“There is a whole deck of foils that they showed us,” said Ronayne. “And we should show it from the public. If the public is asked to be part of a public-private partnership, you should have complete information.”

Ronayne was clear that he is against the Browns who leave the city center. In the meantime, HSG is pushing a move to Brook Park, where you want to build a 2.4 billion dollar lock and an entertainment complex of $ 2.4 billion.

The Browns looked at the option for the development of the SeFront for some time before the ultimately decisive Brook Park is the best plan for the team.

In a statement in response to the leaked picture, HSG Coo Dave Jenkins said that the city and the district never showed the team a practical financing plan for the Seefront option and partly: “It became very clear that a money in the female of the current open-air stage showed short-sighted, short-term fixation that only had the same problems on the street.”

“These are all cops,” said Ronayne. “In this way you can justify the exodus from the city of Cleveland to Brook Park to build a stadium out there. I think the real key here is that you have decided that you can benefit from the sea of ​​surface parking that you want to bring 180 hectare location.”

While the Senate in Ohio looks at a budget budget that approves the sale of bonds of $ 600 million to finance the project, Ronayne and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb are asking for legislators to check the option on the lake shore, which would cost the state $ 350 million.

In a letter to the senators of the state senators this week, BIBB and Ronayne said: “With the participation of 350 million US dollars in Ohio (which is in accordance with the request from Hamilton County for the Cincinnati -Bengals), the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County is ready to make the contributions from Cleveland and Cuyahog County.

By the end of June, the state has to approve the budget, which must also receive the signature of governor Mike Dewine, R-OHIO. Dewine said Ohio would benefit from a stadium with a dome and suggests double the state's sports betting tax for the financing of stadiums instead of selling bonds.

HSG also applied for a bond of 600 million US dollars from the local government for the development of Brook Park, which Ronayne said he would not support.

“After June 30th I think that it will be more local conversation,” he said. “And it will be a long distance.”

Dave Jenkin's complete statement is as follows:

As we have consistently communicated, we have methodically examined the renovation on the lake shore for several years, and it became clear that the insertion of money in the renovation of the current open-air stadium is a short-sighted, short-term solution that only causes the same problems on the street and also hinders the opportunity to do the Lakefront again. These renderings were created as part of a process almost three years ago.

We have not conducted any material renovation discussions for months and have never introduced a practical financing plan for a renovation from the Cuyahoga district or the city of Cleveland to combine our private investment. The Haslam Sports Group is obliged to contribute 1.2 billion US dollars to the Brook Park stadium of 1.2 billion US dollars, and in contrast to the consistent statements by Chris Ronayne from County, the rest of the proposed public component is not paid to grants and not with income from the project and are not paid to existing tax currents paid back. We also appreciate and respect that governor Dewine can support his support for a Dome Stadium and what it can mean for the state of Ohio.

It has become increasingly discouraging that local politicians are working against an unprecedented 3 -billion dollar development project with significant state investments in northeast -ohio that would create hundreds of million dollars for public interest groups, especially at a time when politicians in this region talk about economic difficulties and developmental hearing in this region. We are confident that a closed stadium and a mixed use in Brook Park, which is used all year round, is the only reasonable long -term solution for our organization and the region.

This project will enable our lake bank to be able to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for north -east -ohio in order to use it for other needs of the community, and, in combination with the announcement of the modernization of yesterday's airport, serve as a further catalyst for changing our region.