more on that pesky mistake on the lake —
OPINION
If you want a dead zone on Cleveland’s lakefront, leave Browns Stadium right where it is:
Brent Larkin
Updated: Apr. 28, 2024
By Brent Larkin, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND -- Seventeen acres of perhaps the most valuable urban land in Ohio sits on the Lake Erie shoreline, just east of where that great lake intersects with the historic Cuyahoga River.
Rising high above the ground on that precious property is a $350 million (in 1998 dollars) mountain of steel and concrete, a 70,000-seat football stadium that stands empty at least 340 days each and every year.
… consider this. Of the 525,600 minutes in a year, Browns home games take up less than 1,800 of them. That’s what makes it impossible to argue that stadium is in the right place.
Brent Larkin was The Plain Dealer’s editorial director from 1991 until his retirement in 2009.
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Aerial view of Cleveland Browns Stadium and downtown Cleveland.The Plain Dealer