--- title: What the Cleveland Browns stadium announcement means for the trades description: The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Brian Poindexter from IW Local 17 joined us on today’s show. image: https://awf.labortools.com/hubfs/Ironworkers%20red%20mic.jpg --- 1 min read Season 5, Episode 210 # What the Cleveland Browns stadium announcement means for the trades [ awfblog ](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/author/awfblog) October 21, 2024 [America's Work Force Union Podcast](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/americas-work-force-union-podcast) [AWF](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/awf) [Ironworkers](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/ironworkers) ![AWF-Blogo-Logos-Template-400x400_IW](https://awf.labortools.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AmericasWorkForce/podcast%20logos/AWF-Blogo-Logos-Template-400x400_IW.png?width=400&height=400&name=AWF-Blogo-Logos-Template-400x400_IW.png)   Guest Name: --- Brian Poindexter Guest Website: --- [Iron Workers Local 17](https://www.iw17.org/)  Guest Social Media: --- [ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/unionironworkers) [ Twitter](https://twitter.com/theironworkers) [ YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) [ LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/) Supportive Documents: --- Brian Poindexter, a [Brook Park City Councilman](https://www.cityofbrookpark.com/city-council/) and [Iron Workers Local 17](https://www.iw17.org/) member, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss a proposed domed stadium project for the [Cleveland Browns](https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/) in Brook Park, Ohio, and the new union construction jobs the project could create. Recently, the Cleveland Browns announced that they would focus efforts to build a new stadium in Brook Park and leave downtown Cleveland. Poindexter discussed how the new stadium proposal came to be. With a new stadium comes more work, which means more jobs. This is a reason for excitement among the building trades in the Cleveland area, Poindexter said. The new proposed stadium and surrounding complex would create more than 1,000 good-paying union construction jobs. He also outlined other union work that the new stadium will create. While the stadium in Brook Park makes sense to Poindexter and many of the other members of the City Council, a separate proposal to renovate the current lakefront stadium was made. Poindexter believes there were a few problems with that proposal, including that the lakefront area is unable to handle the increased weight of a new domed stadium construction. Listen to the show above for more on the Cleveland Browns possibly relocating to Brook Park. --- America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues. 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