{"id":473768,"date":"2026-10-22T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:52:35","slug":"arlington-narrows-how-273-million-in-cowboys-stadium-money-is-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473768\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington narrows how $273 million in Cowboys stadium money is spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arlington City Council approved changes to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/arlington-approves-funding-upgrade-at-t-stadium-22218872.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$273 million agreement<\/a> with the Dallas Cowboys to extend the team\u2019s lease at AT&amp;T Stadium, clarifying how taxpayer money can be spent.<\/p>\n<p>Under the revised agreement, Arlington\u2019s $273 million contribution is specifically designated for stadium maintenance, operations and management, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kera.org\/2026\/10\/20\/arlington-approves-changes-to-proposed-dallas-cowboys-lease-extension\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KERA reported<\/a>. The Cowboys remain responsible for funding and completing improvements by 2043.<\/p>\n<p>The council approved the changes in a 7-2 vote Tuesday after consultations with bond attorneys and the Texas attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The changes come as Arlington faces a lawsuit challenging its use of $273 million in voter-approved stadium taxes without another public vote. The City Council had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/arlington-approves-funding-upgrade-at-t-stadium-22218872.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted to extend<\/a>\u00a0the team\u2019s lease beyond 2040, adding 15 more years to their original agreement and enabling the city to use sales and venue taxes to upgrade the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is still not finalized and still requires approval from the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office. A trial is scheduled for May 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arlington City Council approved changes to a $273 million agreement with the Dallas Cowboys to extend the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,1673,152,151,154,99207,93042,87907,88346,88776],"class_list":["post-473768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-city-council","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-cowboys","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-arlington","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-dak-prescott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473768","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=473768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}