{"id":471599,"date":"2026-10-20T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471599\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:22:07","slug":"arlington-city-leaders-to-consider-clarifying-att-stadium-agreement-with-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471599\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington city leaders to consider clarifying AT&#038;T Stadium agreement with Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/arlington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Arlington City Council<\/a> is looking at an amended lease agreement with the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> that clarifies what the city will pay to maintain <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/at-t-stadium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AT&amp;T Stadium<\/a> and what the team will pay for.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution the council is set to consider offers more details. The proposal clarifies that the city&#8217;s contribution covers the actual costs of maintaining, operating, and managing the stadium. The Cowboys, meanwhile, must fund and complete improvements specified in the Master Agreement by 2043.<\/p>\n<p>Those improvements include hardening perimeters, building pedestrian bridges, adding security screening shacks, getting more security cameras, adding more venue parking, digital signage, kitchen and concession build-outs, and improvements to the stadium plaza, among others. Improvements to the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems are also included in what the Cowboys are expected to pay for.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes follow the city&#8217;s approval of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/arlington-approves-273-million-att-stadium-upgrade-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$273 million stadium deal<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year, despite concerns from residents who have called for a referendum to let voters decide. The Cowboys have offered to pay for all the upgrades up front, with the city paying them back $50 million in 2028 and $20 million every year after through 2048.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arlington City Council is looking at an amended lease agreement with the Dallas Cowboys that clarifies what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,8079,113],"class_list":["post-471599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-att-stadium","tag-dallas-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471599","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=471599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}