Brian Poindexter, a Brook Park City Councilman and Iron Workers Local 17 member, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to discuss a proposed domed stadium project for the Cleveland Browns 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.