Proposal Sees Browns Keeping Headquarters In Berea Through '39

The city of Berea owns the Browns headquarters and training facility, and leases it back to the teamGETTY IMAGES

The Browns will "keep their headquarters" in Berea, Ohio, through '39, per a proposed lease agreement "hammered out by the city and the team," according to Mary Kilipatrick of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. The news is a "win for the city," which counts the team as its "largest income taxpayer." The Browns contribute about 25% of the city’s annual income from tax income. In recent years, that number has been "well over" $3M. The city of Berea "owns the Browns headquarters and training facility, and leases it back to the team" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 6/18). In Akron, Nate Ulrich notes the verbal agreement between the two sides "won’t be voted on by the Berea City Council until mid-July at the earliest." Berea became the home of Browns' HQ in '91, and prior to the '16 season, the team completed a $15M renovation project on the training facility (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 6/18).