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Legal & General Partners With Leeds City Council To Fund Headingley Redevelopment

Financial services company Legal & General partnered with Leeds City Council to fund the redevelopment of Headingley Stadium. This latest deal brings Legal & General's total investment in Leeds to more than £600M ($791.3M). Comprising the redeveloped stand, which sits on the south side of Headingley Cricket Stadium and the adjacent north stand of Headingley Rugby Stadium, the property will be let to Leeds City Council on a 42-year lease, and under-let to the cricket and rugby clubs jointly. Legal & General is financing the roughly £35M ($46.2M) redevelopment on behalf of Legal & General Retirement. The stadium is the home of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Championship rugby side Yorkshire Carnegie and Super League club Leeds Rhinos. The deal will help secure the future of Headingley as home to top-level int'l sport, upgrading the seating capacity and providing facilities which will meet future standards. It is estimated that once complete, the new stands will generate additional expenditure of more than £107M ($141.1M) by '23. Pete Gladwell, Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Legal & General Investment Management Real Assets, said, "There is significant economic benefit that maintaining 'Test' status for Headingley will bring to the city and the wider region, which makes this redevelopment another important investment in the city" (Legal & General).

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