Meet Brook Park: The future home of the Cleveland Browns (possibly)

I have an issue with it being so close to the airport. The airport needs renovating/expanding, and traffic will be a nightmare in any construction endeavor. While it will benefit the area on gamedays and even on gameday weekends, Brookpark is not necessarily a tourist destination. If I were the city leaders, I would take a very close examination of the cost/benefit analysis.

Personally, it's about time. I was an early proponent of not rebuilding on the lakefront without a roof, but obviously I lost. Now after 25 years, three owners, 40 starting quarterbacks & 221 game losses, let's finally build a facility that will earn its return on investment (i.e. Super Bowl & Men's Final Four) while liberating 31 prime Downtown acres for higher, better, more lucrative use--rather than just eight football games and a rare concert.

Brook Park is practically next door to Cleveland, serviced well by freeways next to Hopkins Airport. We cannot continue to hem-&-haw and hand-wring our way through civic life. Take the leap of faith that should have been done when this saga began in 1995 and build the new stadium in Brook Park.

It would completely destroy the existing culture. Not so much the stadium itself, but the surrounding entertainment district that the Halsams need to make the finances work. Within 5 years, you won't have local family restaurants or stores left.

My grandparent's moved into their new home at that time, late 50s. Stayed there until retirement 12 yrs later when they bought property down in Ft. Meyers. Their beautiful brick ranch is still there at Holland and Engle and I can still remember what it looked like down to the iconic Sunbeam Coffeemaster C30A coffeemaker sitting on the snackbar. And the Isalys on the corner. Ford and Chevy built that. They're gone. Time to move on. A stadium would be better than empty brownfields.

How many other developers are knocking on greater Cleveland's door with a 3 billion dollar project? None that I can think of! Our area needs to think as a region and move forward that way. It makes zero sense to invest a billion dollars into an open air stadium that sits empty 345 days a year. The dome stadium would fit perfectly in that area of Brookpark...still in Cuyahoga County. The lakefront would benefit without the stadium there. If I understand it correctly, the Haslems' have offered to pay for its demolition and contribute towards the lakefront renovation.