{"id":147049,"date":"2025-08-15T05:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147049\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T05:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:55:29","slug":"report-city-of-arlington-to-pay-off-dallas-cowboys-att-stadium-a-decade-early-saves-150-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147049\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: City of Arlington to pay off Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium a decade early, saves $150 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys\u2019 AT&T Stadium will be paid off years ahead of schedule. According to Eric Fisher of Front Office Sports,<\/a> the city of Arlington, Texas, which owns the Cowboys stadium, will make a $22.6 million payment on the venue. It will be the final payment, and the debt ends a decade early.<\/p>\n

Arlington was originally scheduled to pay the $325 million in total contributions until 2035. The debt was paid off sooner because of the revenue from a sales-tax increase, car rental taxes and hotel occupancy taxes, and all were approved by local voters in 2004. <\/p>\n

\u201cTen years early saves you a lot of interest and a lot of fees,\u201d Arlington city manager Trey Yelverton told the city council. \u201cBecause of how we\u2019ve structured things, we\u2019re able to pay them off early, and because we\u2019re paying this one off early, we continue to be in a good position for Globe Life Field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arlington paid $490,3 million in total principal, interest and fees toward AT&T Stadium, but saved more than $150 million in additional interest and fees. The Cowboys paid the remaining $1.2 million in construction costs for the stadium. <\/p>\n

More on the Cowboys\u2019 AT&T Stadium <\/p>\n

The Cowboys have called AT&T Stadium home since May 2009. The stadium has a capacity of as much as 100,000 and has hosted multiple big sporting events, including Super Bowl XLV and the College Football Playoff National Championship game in 2015. <\/p>\n

During the 2024 season, AT&T Stadium became a story when Cowboys players had issues finding the ball during an a late afternoon game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked about placing shades on the stadium<\/a> during games.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest thought when we were building it was, \u2018Don\u2019t have it look like it\u2019s not outdoors. Make it look like it\u2019s outdoors,’\u201d Jones said, per CBS Sports<\/a>. \u201cThat stadium was built to feel like it\u2019s outdoors when you\u2019re indoors, and it was built to have sunlight coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones then said the team knows where the sun will be, which should be an advantage. \u201cIt should be an advantage to the home team, so I don\u2019t want to adjust it for one reason because it is an advantage to us,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026That\u2019s our advantage. That should be our advantage. We get to play there more and we get to have it as an advantage. It has been an advantage for us to know where the sun is. I don\u2019t want to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys\u2019 AT&T Stadium will be paid off years ahead of schedule. According to Eric Fisher of Front…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,86849,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-147049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-dallas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115031239801162125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}