Posted on 12/21/2021 2:32:37 AM PST by Libloather
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - New York governor Kathy Hochul on Monday expressed confidence she can reach a deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to build a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills in time to be included on the state’s budget due in April.
Hochul said she has provided the team two timelines to negotiate an agreement by either the end of the year or extend talks through March. The governor added the Bills will have the final say whether to have the new facility based near their current home in Orchard Park or downtown.
“We’re very intently focused on keeping the Bills here. If Orchard Park is their first choice, their only choice, it’s Orchard Park, and we’ll make it happen,” Hochul said during an appearance in Warsaw, New York.
As for the two timelines, Hochul said, “there is no hard deadline” to get a deal completed by the end of the year should the Bills agree to extend talks.
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Community benefits deal would soften blow of state subsidies for new Bills stadium 19 hours ago
The damned state wouldn't be subsidizing anything, would it?
ITS TAXPAYERS ARE.
Looks like the whole state has to eat it.
Downstate lawmakers make noise over Bills stadium, but ‘you pick your battles’
The whole state won’t have to eat it.
Just the taxpayers.
And we can’t afford it.
If the NFL weren’t already dead to me, this would do it.
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