{"id":55185,"date":"2025-07-10T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55185\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:00:09","slug":"cleveland-to-browns-leaving-town-dont-forget-the-demolition-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55185\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland to Browns: Leaving town? Don\u2019t forget the demolition bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TKQU3SM7O5CVLK3HNSF3VJGE6M.png\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Huntington Bank Field\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/>Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb suggests the Browns should help pay to tear down 26-year-old Huntington Bank Field if the team moves to Brook Park.John Pana, cleveland.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YHPXNHZ6ZNGJFCNR3RSAIEAC4I\">CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8211; Mayor Justin Bibb opened the door Wednesday to asking Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam to help pay for demolition of the lakefront football stadium if the team goes forward with plans to leave the city for a new suburban indoor stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E3UTFSICJRE3PHJZDJ344CNYSM\">\u201cIt is my hope that the Haslams and the Browns will be good corporate citizens and make sure there is a smooth transition for them leaving our city and going to Brook Park,\u201d Bibb said, in response to a direct question about how the city would pay for tearing down the existing stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb suggests the Browns should help pay to tear down 26-year-old Huntington Bank Field if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[13593,40678,5247,40680,40679,40681,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-55185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cleveland","9":"tag-cleveland-browns-stadium","10":"tag-drone","11":"tag-first-energy-stadium","12":"tag-firstenergy-stadium","13":"tag-lakefront","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114831191104189889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55185","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=55185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}