{"id":660299,"date":"2026-04-03T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:21:22","slug":"cleveland-mayor-planning-to-raise-9m-for-cavs-guardians-venues-with-added-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660299\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland mayor planning to raise $9M for Cavs, Guardians venues with added fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb wants to raise up to $9M for \u201crepairs at the Cavaliers\u2019 and Guardians\u2019 stadiums, aiming to shift the burden away from the public and onto stadium users through added fees on parking, tickets, nachos and branded T-shirts,\u201d according to Sean McDonnell of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. That initial estimate reflects \u201conly a starting point, with fees tied to\u201d Rocket Arena and Progressive Field. Bibb\u2019s plan revolves around the \u201ccreation of a New Community Authority\u201d that can \u201ccharge up to 5% on retail, food, beverages and tickets, plus parking, hotel fees and property taxes.\u201d Records show the city\u2019s \u201cbroader vision for a New Community Authority would extend well beyond the two stadiums, potentially tapping nearby businesses, parking and property owners across a large swath of downtown &#8212; significantly expanding how much revenue the district could generate.\u201d So far, the plan \u201chasn\u2019t moved forward, and the teams haven\u2019t publicly supported the idea.\u201d Both the Cavs and Guardians would \u201cneed to agree to add fees to tickets and concessions for it to work.\u201d Bibb\u2019s push for new revenue sources comes as \u201cexisting funding for stadium repairs has fallen short, and as repairs for the three-decade old facilities are expected to grow more expensive.\u201d Countywide sin taxes on alcohol and cigarettes &#8212; \u201clong the primary source of stadium repair money &#8212; haven\u2019t kept pace with the bills\u201d at Rocket Arena and Progressive Field (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/04\/records-reveal-cleveland-mayors-9m-plan-for-stadium-repairs-with-cavs-and-guardians-fans-footing-the-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/04\/records-reveal-cleveland-mayors-9m-plan-for-stadium-repairs-with-cavs-and-guardians-fans-footing-the-bill.html\">Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 4\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb wants to raise up to $9M for \u201crepairs at the Cavaliers\u2019 and Guardians\u2019 stadiums,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-660299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116339100213693258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}