Hamilton County Commissioner votes no on a much-needed replace to Paycor Stadium

It’d take followers a bit longer to get round Paycor Stadium this upcoming season.

Hamilton County Commissioners lately voted 2-1 to exchange six escalators within the stadium. Due to that lone ‘No’ vote, plans is not going to transfer ahead for the $1.5 million venture.

Alicia Reese was the lone Commissioner to vote no, in response to Chris Wetterich or Cincinnati Enterprise Courier.

One of many huge causes for this vote was the Cincinnati Bengals stating the escalators in query are “unsafe.” Reese took situation with this.

“If the place is unsafe, it must be shut down right now,” Reece mentioned, in response to Wetterich. “I’ll name it like I see it. If we don’t have escalators that aren’t working correctly, I contemplate that unsafe.”

The clear situation with that pondering is that they do have stairs to get across the stadium, and so they can merely have these shut down. It would simply drastically decelerate the entire course of and effectivity of attending to seats and out of the stadium.

Extra of an inexpensive argument is that new escalators are a part of the $830 million memorandum of understanding on stadium renovations. A brand new lease has but to be agreed upon, and the deadline is June thirtieth.

A difficulty that might be coming prior to later is logistically getting escalators changed previous to the 2026 season, as buying the supplies is less complicated mentioned than performed within the present state of the world.

It’s comprehensible to need the lease settlement performed earlier than stuff like this will get found out, however this may very well be an actual situation, and shutting down Paycor Stadium over some escalators merely isn’t an inexpensive possibility for both aspect.