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Sources: Browns want new stadium; Mayor wants community input

Ken Prendergast / February 27, 2023

Browns, city deny claims; say focus remains on FirstEnergy Stadium According to several sources, the Cleveland Browns and its majority owner, the Haslam Sports Group, want to move faster than City Hall on what happens before the team’s lease at FirstEnergy Stadium expires at the end of 2028. That reportedly includes a new football/multi-purpose stadium […]

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Source: Browns want inland stadium with roof

Ken Prendergast / June 27, 2022

A third source has now communicated with NEOtrans that the Cleveland Browns favor a new, retractable roof stadium built off the lakefront but in or near downtown. And this source is a high-ranking official within the National Football League team itself. Despite this, a team spokesman angrily denied the report and called the source “not credible.”

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Cleveland teams’ major league real estate plans

5 Comments / Ken Prendergast / April 3, 2022

All three major league sports teams in Cleveland have real estate development plans for downtown Cleveland. They are some of the grandest visions that have been put out there.

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Bedrock riverfront joins downtown lakefront in mega-planning

3 Comments / Ken Prendergast / September 15, 2021

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A century ago, the city of Cleveland was eager to work with the private railroads to replace its undersized, outdated lakefront train station with a glamorous new downtown terminal. The new lakefront station would be a key component of its ambitious Group Plan designed by Daniel Burnham to remake the central business district into a setting of beautiful public buildings built along a park-like mall.

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