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ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 27: A general view of Highmark Stadium before a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Chargers on September 27, 2026 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Timothy T Ludwig\/Getty Images) Getty Images <\/p>\n
Erie County is \u201calmost three-quarters of the way toward meeting\u201d its goal of raising $4M annually through a 6% surcharge on purchases at the new Bills stadium<\/a>, just two months after the venue opened, according to Michael Petro of the BUFFALO NEWS. The surcharge instituted for Highmark Stadium events is \u201craking in an average of\u201d $1.44M per month through September. That adds up to nearly $2.9M in the first two months that the stadium was open. It puts the county \u201cwell on its way\u201d to raising the $4M per year over the 30-year stadium lease that officials \u201canticipated would come from the surcharge.\u201d The 6% surcharge is \u201cbeing collected on top of the 8.75% sales tax applied to purchases in the county.\u201d All that money will go toward \u201cfuture upgrades and upkeep to the stadium and its campus and will count toward the county\u2019s portion of those initiatives.\u201d The surcharge is on stadium purchases like \u201cfood and drinks, merchandise and at other Bills\u2019 retail outlets in and around the building, as well as on parking in team lots and on tickets being purchased\u201d (BUFFALO NEWS, 11\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 27: A general view of Highmark Stadium before a game between the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,303,1418],"class_list":["post-324307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324307","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=324307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}