{"id":138035,"date":"2025-06-17T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/138035\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:10:09","slug":"cuyahoga-county-council-looks-to-prepare-for-browns-move-out-of-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/138035\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuyahoga County Council looks to prepare for Browns\u2019 move out of Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Cuyahoga County Council members \u201cdelivered a clear message to Executive Chris Ronayne and his administration this week: It\u2019s time to accept that the Browns are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/08\/07\/cleveland-browns-potential-stadium-renderings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/08\/07\/cleveland-browns-potential-stadium-renderings\/\">moving their stadium to Brook Park<\/a> and start planning accordingly,\u201d according to Kaitlin Durbin of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. Council member Sunny Simon of the Browns\u2019 plans to leave downtown Cleveland said, \u201cWhether we like it or not, it\u2019s happening. We\u2019ve got to be ready to look at what impact that\u2019s going to have on us.\u201d Durbin notes Simon \u201ccalled for the county to do its own review to better understand how the shift might impact county finances, job creation or development &#8212; and whether the county should financially support the move.\u201d Ronayne has been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/19\/cuyahoga-county-exec-raises-concerns-over-browns-brook-park-stadium-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/19\/cuyahoga-county-exec-raises-concerns-over-browns-brook-park-stadium-plans\/\">vehemently opposed<\/a> to using any public dollars to help the team leave downtown,\u201d but if the council \u201cfinds value in the move, it may want to offer incentives to help the plan along.\u201d Council can award loans between $150,000 to $2M for projects &#8212; a \u201cminuscule amount\u201d compared to the $600M the team has been seeking from county coffers. Council member Michael Gallagher described the Browns stadium as \u201c\u2018the second largest economic development project in the history of the state of Ohio,\u2019 with the added potential to build up the nearby airport and Aerozone area.\u201d He was \u201ccritical of Ronayne\u2019s position, saying the executive \u2018chose Cleveland over Brook Park\u2019 and is risking the larger health of the region to keep the Browns within city limits\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/06\/cuyahoga-county-council-urges-ronayne-to-face-reality-prepare-for-browns-move-whether-we-like-it-or-not-its-happening.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/06\/cuyahoga-county-council-urges-ronayne-to-face-reality-prepare-for-browns-move-whether-we-like-it-or-not-its-happening.html\">Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 6\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cuyahoga County Council members \u201cdelivered a clear message to Executive Chris Ronayne and his administration this week: It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,12202,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-138035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-legal","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114700997467109825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}