Sharon Hurt, Metro Nashville At-Large Council Member: "Throughout this long process I have focused on four criteria that would in the end govern if I supported the new stadium proposal first, the proposal had to extinguish the massive financially backbreaking taxpayer burdens that flowed from the old Titans Stadium lease Secondly, the proposal had to have a significant and material financial upside to taxpayers, an upside that would generate much needed funds for our priorities across the County Third, the proposal had to not just protect TSU, but help put TSU on a path to achieve its long term goals and finally, fourth, the proposal must include meaningful community benefits, including significant minority participation goals. Relocating the stadium closer to the interstate makes sense for a lot of reasons, but replacing the current stadium with a central community gathering space incorporating green stormwater technology and surrounded by mixed uses including affordable housing is chief among them. During extensive community engagement that shaped the East Bank Vision Plan, which the Planning Commission unanimously adopted in October of 2022, neighbors who were still learning about the stadium question itself definitively agreed that the prospect of centering the planned Central Waterfront neighborhood not around the current, aging stadium but rather around a new park and multimodal street designed for transit was the better outcome for the future of our thriving city. We can now replace an aging, 100 percent taxpayer-supported stadium with a new facility that is funded primarily by the team, by visitors to our city, and by new revenues arising from campus development that is not possible under the old lease. Brett Withers, Metro Nashville Council Member: "Tonight's final approval of the new stadium agreement allows Nashville to move forward with the revitalization of the East Bank riverfront that East Nashville neighborhoods have been demanding for more than 40 years.
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