{"id":166907,"date":"2026-04-15T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:32:19","slug":"debate-continues-over-the-use-of-an-erie-county-owned-suite-at-bills-new-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166907\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate continues over the use of an Erie County-owned suite at Bills&#8217; new stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 A debate is underway over how the Erie County-owned suite at the new Highmark Stadium should be used. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-170128-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1055117 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/562;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants the county to have access to 16 tickets and four parking passes for select events at the stadium. Some Erie County lawmakers have concerns about who would benefit from those tickets. <\/p>\n<p>Poloncarz said his proposal expressly prohibits free tickets for government officials.<\/p>\n<p>He says the suite would be primarily used for economic development initiatives and charitable purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/erie-county\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie County<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/new-highmark-stadium\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new highmark stadium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 A debate is underway over how the Erie County-owned suite at the new Highmark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,75216],"class_list":["post-166907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-new-highmark-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}