{"id":251954,"date":"2026-04-16T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:19:08","slug":"arlington-weighs-273-million-plan-to-upgrade-att-stadium-extend-dallas-cowboys-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251954\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington weighs $273 million plan to upgrade AT&#038;T Stadium, extend Dallas Cowboys deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington&#8217;s city council could soon be asking its residents to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/att-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> AT&amp;T Stadium<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agenda for next week&#8217;s city council meeting includes a proposal to contribute what will be $273 million in upgrades to the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys&#8217; portion will be $750 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The money would fund not only improvements inside the stadium but also bridges and roads outside, along with security enhancements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agreement would keep the Cowboys in Arlington through 2055. The current agreement expires in 2039.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers contacted by CBS News Texas say they are allowed by law to approve the continuation of a tax to cover the $273 million without giving residents an opportunity to vote on the proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing for the city. It&#8217;s going to continue the partnership through 2055,&#8221; Arlington city councilmember Bowie Hogg.&#8221;I think the big question is how we say yes. I think the citizens should have a say in this.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas has learned that the proposal would pay for pedestrian bridges over roads around the stadium, a dedicated ride share parking lot, more digital signs, as well as improvements to the plaza that include a cover for shade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas has reached out to the Dallas Cowboys for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington&#8217;s city council could soon be asking its residents to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,34894,113,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-251954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arlington","tag-atampt-stadium","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}