Browns to Brook Park: Cleveland Magazine Readers React to the Possibility
In a letter to Browns fans, Dave Jenkins of Haslam Sports Group discusses the future of the Browns stadium and a possible new location in Brook Park. Fans shared their thoughts on Facebook, Instagram and via email. By Lainey Novak
Here is what Cleveland Magazine readers had to say about the potential of the Browns moving to Brook Park:
Renderings for a new stadium look like a theme park or at best a mall. Is that what Browns and fans want? What purpose will the park and its vendors serve when the team is off season or away? Respectfully, if the team wants to leave Cleveland why not keep going. -Donna Evans via Email
Do it! Huge opportunity to have a SoFi-style venue.m drawing a year round multi-event entertainment market. You would have seen #taylorswift , #copaamerica and drawn #worldcup2026 with a venue option like this in Cleveland. Don’t live in the past!
-@_rob_ralston_ on Instagram
This is only being done to fill the Haslam’s bank account. No other reason whatsoever. The Brown’s franchise continues to be a complete and utter failure and disappointment. I’m not sure I can do it much longer.
-@shanleye on Instagram
Do it. Don't look back.
-@Ray Douglass on Facebook
Notice the parking lot has zero tailgating in the rendering. Be ready to give up one of the best parts of Cleveland football.
-@ohhidanny on Instagram
Cleveland sports belong downtown.
-@nobel_beast_brewing on Instagram
Since this story broke, the question I cannot get past why is this stadium "too old"? They have gone through numerous "needed" upgrades at taxpayers' expense, and then suddenly--"the stadium is too old." Why the Haslams believe the stadium is "too old" at age 25 does not make sense to me. Cleveland Municipal stadium was 42 years old when it was demolished. Maybe the Haslams should focus on necessary repairs instead of "upgrades" to keep the young stadium viable.
-Anonymous via email
Apparently Elon Musk designed the stadium… 🥴 Cleveland Cyber Stadium.
-@jarbarr99 on Instagram
What beautiful parking lots. These people are clueless. Cut their ties to Ohio already.
-@nswthe1st on Instagram
People literally losing their sh*t over this. Almost all major franchises play outside of their “downtown”. This is a 12 minute drive from The Jake. It’s utilizing a swath of land that has been an eyesore since god only knows when, and turning it into a venue that will be used year round. The current stadium is a waste of a prime real estate that can be properly (hopefully) be utilized and developed as a destination. Do you really want a giant, outdated bathtub on the lake that’s used 8 times a year next to an airport that doesn’t need to exist? Or would you rather drive an extra few minutes, have entertainment year round? Seems like a lot of “old man on the front porch” yapping going on here. -@andymac1973 on Instagram
Do it.
-@sites4sight on Instagram
It looks like it will be a fine stadium, but all that development around it sounds like District Detroit, which was announced in 2012 as part of the development of Little Caesars Arena and which, 12 years later, is mostly just surface parking lots.
-@Mark Lantz on Facebook
The Brook Park Browns.
-@elyriajablo on Instagram
Hopefully it doesn't interfere with the airport traffic and is a efficient state of the art design that really shows how nice Cleveland really is to people visiting.
-@Alex Bowen on Facebook
a $2.4B parking lot.
-@vic.rrose on Instagram
This is fantastic stuff.
-@Vince Lanese on Facebook
Keep them in Cleveland. -@confetti__eddie on Instagram
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