BENGALS GET COST ESTIMATES ON NEW RIVERFRONT STADIUM

          The Bengals' new "riverfront stadium project --
     including parking, plaza, practice fields and training
     facility -- likely will cost" about $301.5M, "even before
     land costs are added," according to Lucy May of the
     CINCINNATI ENQUIRER.  The estimate marks the first time
     Hamilton County officials have "offered an estimate" that
     tops $300M.  Officials released a $270M price when the
     stadium lease was signed in May, but "they said all along
     that the $270 million estimate didn't include everything." 
     Hamilton County Commission President Bob Bedinghaus said
     that the $301.5M figure includes $10.5M for practice fields
     and a training facility, $13.2M for parking, and $7.8M for
     the stadium's plaza.  Items not accounted for include the
     financing costs, "which aren't yet known," and the cost of
     the land, which "may add at least another" $30M.  Bedinghaus
     said that $301.5M is not final, but it is the price county
     officials are using until an official "guaranteed maximum
     price" is reached (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 8/12).